Moving Servers

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I currently have 2 servers on my Network, for argument
sake we will call them srv1 and srv2. Srv1 stores all of
the user login information therefore is the logon server.
Srv 2 is the print server and has all of the Network
files and folders stored on it. My question what is the
best/easiest way to move all of the accounts from srv1 to
srv2. I would like to make the network rely on one
server, the server has a big enough hard drive to handle
all functions.
 
How is srv1 a logon server? ...is it a domain controller? If so, you need
to run DCPROMO on srv2, then transfer all FSMO roles to it before
decommissioning srv1.
 
If you have a Windows domain and AD, then just promote the second server to
DC running 'dcpromo.exe'. Transfer FSMO roles and demote the first server
running 'dcpromo' as well. But you would keep first server as DC just for
redundancy because the HDD size doesn't matter in this case :)
If it's workgroup, roll out a domain.
 
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