I'm working on trying to retire an old fileserver (2008R2) and move everything to a new one (2012R2). To try to make the migration process as seamless as possible, my original plan was:
1. Set up a new DFS root to mirror the shares between the two servers
2. Change GPO to to map drives to the new DFS root rather than the old server, which includes folder redirection for user's Desktop/Downloads/etc folders.
3. Eventually remove the old server from the DFS group and retire it.
A little background here: All of our users have a personal home folder on the server (U: drive), and their desktop/my documents/etc folders are redirected to subfolders of their home folder. drive. I make their entire home folder available offline, since we have a number of users with laptops who work from home and aren't always connected via VPN (and even if they...
