Best practice for migrating Shares and Permissions?

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Published on 2012-12-07T01:09:55Z Indexed on 2012/12/07 11:07 UTC
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We have a Windows 2008 R2 server which is replacing an old Windows Storage Server.

The datastore is attached via iSCSI so I do not need to transfer any data. The iSCSI connection is setup on the new machine, and now I'm wondering:

How should I transfer the shares and permissions?

Do I use PERMCOPY for permissions or is there something better as of Windows 2008 R2 (compared to Windows 2000):

PERMCOPY //SourceServer ShareName //DestinationServer ShareName

Is exporting/importing registry still a valid option? from:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares

Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

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