Roaming profile migration failed using Windows explorer manual copy

[albertwt]

Hi All,

 

I'm at the final stage of migrating an old demoted DC server, now I'm stuck in migrating/copying the roaming profiles of the users from the old win2k server (oldServer1) into the new win2k3 server (newServer1)

 

there are lots of profiles which points into the old server:

\\oldServer1\profiles\user1

\\oldServer1\profiles\user2

\\oldServer1\profiles\user3

.

.

.

\\oldServer1\profiles\userN

in the ProfilePath

 

I'd like to move it into:

\\newServer1\profiles\user1

\\newServer1\profiles\user2

\\newServer1\profiles\user3

.

.

.

\\newServer1\profiles\userN

 

I tried to copy paste from my DOMAIN\Administrator account but it is failed to copy ?

i cannot even browse inside the directory of user1 until userN ?

is there any fastest way to do the copy process rather than "taking ownership" for each of those directory one by one ? [hopefully by taking ownership the user will still be able to use their profile normally]

 

Thanks.

[danrhodes]

You can use Robocopy to move the folder's and keep the ACL intact.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en

 

If you get any corrupt profiles, this tool is always usefull.

 

Reprofiler – Repair Tool of the Week | Technibble

 

Also for moving profiles see

 

12Ghosts ProfileCopy Homepage

 

and

 

Migrate Roaming Profiles and Remote Home Folders

 

D

[srochford]

robocopy \\oldserver\profiles \\newserver\profiles /b /mir /sec

 

the /b tells it to work in "backup mode" so it can read files even though you wouldn't normally have permission; the /mir mirrors file contents; the /sec copies permissions

[albertwt]

thanks guys for the reply.

[danrhodes]

Did it all work alright in the end Albert?