Emergency Request

[DMI]

We have about 2.5 GB of excel, word, access, etc.
documents. Most of the documents have hyperlinks to some
other documents.

This is the problem. We need to restore all of these
files into a new server. The server's name is different
and we can't change it.

What we need to do is to change the path in each of the
links in all of these files.

Example; file1 is located at \\server\file1 and it is now
locate in a new server \\server1\file1.

Any suggestions, comments PLEASE Advise.

Thank you!

 

[Arie Heinrich]

Hi,

Best solution is using vba code to do this massive conversion.

But in the mean time - here's a little trick I used in such occasions...

as \\Server\share actually goes to your DNS server to query the IP address
of that Server
what you can do is, after you moved the documents to the new server and as
long as you kept the
directory structure as the original, all you have to do is create a
DNS-ALIAS with the name of the
old server and have it point to the new one.

Have a talk with your Sys Admins that know about your org DNS structure to
see if they can help.

Take care,

Arie H.
MS Office MVP