We have an Existing win2008R2 server that has 150 Shares, 6 TB of Data, 3 Different DFS Namespaces and 3 Replication Groups with about 25 replicated folders among the 3 namespaces.
I have a new Win2012 server that I'd like to setup to replace the Existing server. New server has its own Storage that I want to replicate the data to.
What is the best way to copy all of the shares/Permissions, and add the new 2012 server to DFS to be a new member and start replicating all of the data?
As a bonus, It would be great that when the replication is completed to the new server that I can rename the new server to the same name as the old server. If its messy to rename a DFS server, then I can live with it. The Old File DFS server is a DC, and I cannot demote it yet.
Thank you