Migrate from windows server 2012 to windows server 2022

[Robertia]

Any trusted GUI alternative to Robocopy that can I use to migrate from windows server 2012 to windows server 2022 with permissions and  timestamps?

I already googled and I found some results GUI tools such as AllwaySync,  Goodsync,  Gs Richcopy360 , Teracopy,  FreeFileSync,  Duplicati .....etc

Which tool can do this task fast and easy ?

[FN-GM]

What is it you're migrating? If it's files, I would use Robocopy.

[Davit2005]

100% Robocopy if files. Used it many times in the past for migrating shares to new servers. Don't be afraid of the CLI 🙂

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy

[altecsole]

11 hours ago, Robertia said:

Any trusted GUI alternative to Robocopy that can I use to migrate from windows server 2012 to windows server 2022 with permissions and  timestamps?

I already googled and I found some results GUI tools such as AllwaySync,  Goodsync,  Gs Richcopy360 , Teracopy,  FreeFileSync,  Duplicati .....etc

Which tool can do this task fast and easy ?

I can highly recommend ViceVersaPro - https://www.tgrmn.com/

[Robertia]

Yes, I am migrating files

[BKGarry]

I am going to throw the weird one into the mix for you, as long as you have the same names/amount of partitions/drive letters on your new server, Windows Admin Centre has a File Server Migration Tool. I used it 3 years ago with great success.

It runs an initial sync and then an update sync when you say, and then it will take the name of your current server, all the share names and permissions and the IP Address and configure the new server to that and rename and re-IP the old one for you. Worked very very well. 

I have Windows Admin Centre installed on it's own VM for this and easily seeing information on my Hyper-V cluster etc

[Margaret]

AllwaySync,Goodsync, Gs Richcopy360 can do this task fast and easy

[altecsole]

2 minutes ago, BKGarry said:

I am going to throw the weird one into the mix for you, as long as you have the same names/amount of partitions/drive letters on your new server, Windows Admin Centre has a File Server Migration Tool. I used it 3 years ago with great success.

It runs an initial sync and then an update sync when you say, and then it will take the name of your current server, all the share names and permissions and the IP Address and configure the new server to that and rename and re-IP the old one for you. Worked very very well. 

I have Windows Admin Centre installed on it's own VM for this and easily seeing information on my Hyper-V cluster etc

Agreed. I also used this to migrate from a Windows 2016 file server, to Windows 2025. Worked flawlessly.

[BKGarry]

I did 2012 to 2022, just had to make sure 2012 was on it's latest updates to work, was so easy to do.

[Robertia]

I found Teracopy but for this task I will need the Pro version,  now I have a good deal with gs richcopy , I will back here tell you what we did in this task 

[Robertia]

Hi , Sorry for replying late,  After completing our task , I would to say that Gs Richcopy 360 did the job as we need . I totally recommend it for similar issues 🙏