I work for a school district, and we are upgrading our domain controllers at each site. Each domain controller houses our user's home directories as well. Example, in active directory, user.a has his/her home directory set as\\fserver0\users$\user.a\ as does the rest of the users at each site.
We are replacing these servers, but i'm looking for the easiest way to do this without losing links to the user's home folders. My thoughts on ways to do this:
1) demote existing fserver0, take off domain, remove all dns/etc entries, rename new server to fserver0 and promote as DC and move share registry entry from old server to new so\\fserver0\users$ is still valid, problem resolved
2) (insert your recommendations here for an easier way of doing this)
Is there a way to fire up a new server named \\fserver1, physically move the data drive to this server as well as the share registry entry, and then mass-update all shares that were once tied to\\fserver0\users$ to \\fserver1\users$ ?
i'm open to any suggestion, as I'm probably making this quite a bit more complicated than it actually is. I'm wanting to get a good processing of doing this for I'm doing for 4 sites.
Thank you very much