DFS Migration Questions - Server 2003

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NobleX13

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I work for a fortune 100 company whose DFS servers currently run on Server 2003. Are there any caveats or gotchas when upgrading to Server 2008?

I plan on building out a few new DFS servers, connecting them to the namespace, and then dropping the server 2003 VMs off the face of the planet. Anything wrong with this idea?

We will also repeat the process and upgrade to server 2012 once we get our ESX hosts upgraded to 5.1.

Thanks!
 
Yeah the problem with 2003 DFS is that it doesn't support replication so you have to still manually move files. Pain in the ass if you do want to keep a clean migration. 2003R2 Supports replication but 2003 doesn't the File server migration tool doesn't work correctly in 2012 either. Doesn't seem to pick up Enterprise DFS root. You need a 2008R2 Enterprise for it to work correctly.

Make sure your server 2012 are installed with VMXnet 3 NICs cause I found issues with connectivity with the e1000 and e1000e
 
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