I'm soon going to be doing a large migration of an old-school web server that serves mostly ASP pages (currently on a Windows 2003 server) to a newer, virtualized Windows 2008 server. This new server is going to be in a different domain, as well.
So I'm copying the root web folder, and all its subfolders and files, to this new server. I'd like to keep permissions intact. It's also pretty massive – I'd like to be able to compress it before transferring to the new server with permissions intact. Any way to do that? And will the new server being in a different AD domain screw with my plans?
Best Answer
To copy all data and permissions, you can use robocopy per this technet blog post:
If you have domain-specific ACEs and you're moving to a different domain, you're not going to be able to do much other than document it and manually intervene.