File Server Migration Tool: I'm a bit disappointed in this tool. It seemed like an exact match for the task in hand and testing on smaller amounts of data worked perfectly. But I'm in the middle of a migration right now and it is not going to plan. I'm interested in others' experience using this tool. 1. Copy stage completed as expected. I had assumed the Finalise stage (copying the delta information) would complete quickly given that there were almost no updates to files between the start of the copy phase and the start of the finalise stage. Copy stage took about 27 hours (660GB), Finalise stage looks like taking a few hours longer than the Copy stage. 2. I expected users to be briefly disconnected during the finalise stage. However we are 50% through the finalise stage and some shares (seems to be the larger ones) cannot be accessed by users either on the old server or the new one. Permissions appear to have been copied across, so not sure why this would be as my understanding was that old server would be available until the delta was fully copied, users would be disconnected from old server and new server's shares would become live. As an administrator I seem to have no problems accessing anything. I just hope that the shares come online soon, but it looks like my users are going to be unable to access some shares for a full day and this is below my expectations of the FSMT tool. Hope this post helps other users and would be interested to hear anyone else's experiences/solutions.

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