I'm in the process of wanting to add more storage and update/migrate 2003 to 2012 without disrupting file shares/security settings. I know there isn't a upgrade path from 32bit to 64bit and unfortunately there are a bunch of databases that are stored on the server that may have been hard coded to the server name that would break a lot of things if we where to just migrate to another server. Is it possible to build a windows 2012 server as the same name as the 2003 server.
- Export HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares registry key from the source server
- Disable SERVER service on the source server (to be sure no one is modifying data during migration)
- Run RoboCopy using /COPYALL key (or /SEC key at least)
- Import registry file (exported in the first step) to the destination server
- Restart SERVER service on the destination server (required for imported registry file to take an effect)
- Un-join the 2003 server from the domain, join the new server with the same name as the old FS to the domain?