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Answered Migrate home directories using Powershell

  • Monday, February 21, 2011 4:10 AM
     
     
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    We are migrating to a new forest and I need to migrate users home directories over to the new forest. Problem is the naming convention on the forest is different so the user id has changed. I want to use powershell or robocopy (or combination of both) to do the copy but pull the source and destination from a txt file.
    So basically copy:

    \\fileshare\userid1  to \\fileshare\iduser1
    \\fileshare\userid2  to \\fileshare\iduser2
    \\fileshare\userid3  to \\fileshare\iduser3

    Something like:

    Robocopy source= olduserid.txt dest=newuserid.txt and it runs the robocopy process for each line in the txt files

    I have got as far as pulling the source or dest directory using the following powershell command but can't figure how i can specify both. Any ideas?

    gc d:\olduserid.txt | % { robocopy \\fileshare\olduserid\$_ \\fileshare\newuserid\ }

    Sorry new with poweshell.

    Cheers

     

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  • Monday, February 21, 2011 7:26 AM
     
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    Make csv file with columns source and dest

    source,dest
    \\fileshare\userid1,\\fileshare\iduser1

    In powershell you may import it and use Copy-Item:

    $shares = Import-Csv p:\test.csv
    foreach ($sh in $shares) { Copy-Item $sh.source $sh.dest -recurse}

    • Proposed As Answer by MichalGajdaMVP Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:39 PM
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  • Monday, February 21, 2011 9:43 PM
     
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    Hi jstirl

    I wrote a script to do just that last week. First I created a spread sheet with the Users Names for example:

    new

    class

    old

    00BP901

    PUPIL

    00BP11

    00BU900

    PUPIL

    00BU11

    00EP903

    PUPIL

    00EP11

    00GA900

    PUPIL

    00ga11

    00JK903

    PUPIL

    00JK11

    00JM904

    PUPIL

    00jm11

    00LP902

    PUPIL

    00lp11

    I then saved this to C:\Userlist.csv. I then used the following Script to create a simple RoboCopy batch file:

    $siteCode = 'SITEA'

    $Users = Import-Csv C:\Userlist.csv

    # Create RoboCopy batch file for User Data Migration

    $robocopy = foreach ( $user in $users )

    {

            switch ( $user . Class )

            {

            Staff { "robocopy E:\Users\$($user.Old) P:\Users\Staff\$($user.New)  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

            Admin { "robocopy E:\Users\$($user.Old) P:\Users\Staff\$($user.New)  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

            pupil { "robocopy E:\Users\$($user.Old) P:\Users\Pupils\$($user.New)  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

           

            Staff { "robocopy E:\NTProfiles\$($user.Old)\Favorites\ P:\Users\Staff\$($user.New)\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

            Admin { "robocopy E:\NTProfiles\$($user.Old)\Favorites\ P:\Users\Staff\$($user.New)\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

            pupil { "robocopy E:\NTProfiles\$($user.Old)\Favorites\ P:\Users\Pupils\$($user.New)\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> $($SiteCode)UserData.log" }

           

            }

    }

    $robocopy | Out-File "C:\RoboCopy$($SiteCode)UserData.bat" -Encoding ascii

    The output looked like this once complete:

    robocopy E:\Users\00BP11 P:\Users\Pupils\00BP901  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\NTProfiles\00BP11\Favorites\ P:\Users\Pupils\00BP901\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\Users\00BU11 P:\Users\Pupils\00BU900  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\NTProfiles\00BU11\Favorites\ P:\Users\Pupils\00BU900\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\Users\00EP11 P:\Users\Pupils\00EP903  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\NTProfiles\00EP11\Favorites\ P:\Users\Pupils\00EP903\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\Users\00ga11 P:\Users\Pupils\00GA900  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    robocopy E:\NTProfiles\00ga11\Favorites\ P:\Users\Pupils\00GA900\Favorites\  /mir /r:1 /w:2 >> SITEAUserData.log

    Obviously you would need to change the paths and possibly some of the switches for RoboCopy but this did the job for me at one of my clients and should point you in the right direction.


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    • Proposed As Answer by jfrmilner Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:10 PM
    • Marked As Answer by Dale QiaoModerator Friday, February 25, 2011 1:32 AM
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