moving folder redirection share <param[ at ]community.nospam> 12/28/2008 11:41:14 PM Hi all, I currently have all my user's my documents folder re-directed to a dfs network share on 2 Server 2003 boxes. It now appears that the disk the share is on one of the servers is running out of disk space fast. So I purchased a new external hard drive and hooked it up to the server and have formatted it as E:\ I now need to move everyone's documents seamlessly keeping ntfs permissions intact. My plan was to temporarily turn off the share name, use robocopy to copy all the folders over to the new disk and then share the folder on the new disk with the same share name. The issue I ran into was robocopy was unable to access anyone's My Documents folder as my domain admin account does not have permissions to each user's folder. Is there anyway around this? I have a 100+ users and if I had to manually go into everyone's folder and manually give my account permissions it would be a very time consuming affair. Any help would be much appreciated! TIA!

Re: moving folder redirection share "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench[ at ]heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> 12/29/2008 6:07:23 PM param[ at ]community.nospam wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi all, > > I currently have all my user's my documents folder re-directed to a > dfs network share on 2 Server 2003 boxes. It now appears that the > disk the share is on one of the servers is running out of disk space > fast. So I purchased a new external hard drive and hooked it up to > the server and have formatted it as E:\ I don't think I'd want to use an external hard drive for this purpose..... > > I now need to move everyone's documents seamlessly keeping ntfs > permissions intact. My plan was to temporarily turn off the share > name, use robocopy to copy all the folders over to the new disk ...using the /SEC switch will preseve permissions > and > then share the folder on the new disk with the same share name. I'm not a DFS expert but I suspect you'll have problems with DFS if you do it this way. >The > issue I ran into was robocopy was unable to access anyone's My > Documents folder as my domain admin account does not have permissions > to each user's folder. Is there anyway around this? > I have a 100+ users and if I had to manually go into everyone's > folder and manually give my account permissions it would be a very > time consuming affair. > > Any help would be much appreciated! > > TIA! You can use XCACLS to add the Administrators group to everyone's folder under the parent folder... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754 And for a nice GUI for it... http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/XCACLS-Gui.shtml