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Zork \(the\) Hun
I did what every wise computer professional would strongly advise against: I
did three major projects rolled into one:
- Installation of a new hardware+OS (Windows 2003)
- Migration from Exchange 2000 to 2003 (onto the new system)
- Office 2003 upgrade.
Quite understandably I had a bunch of problems, I need help with the one
effecting the users the most.
As a standard practice, I redirected the "My documents" folders to the users
home directory.
Unfortunately, I always entered a network path instead of drive mapping
\\serverone\share1 instead of X
mapped to serverone\share1) My logic of
choosing this was the more permanent nature of network paths and that is
where my problem is. The new server has a different name. When I moved all
documents to it, the users started to run into problems. Quite a few of the
documents have references pointing to the server that is no longer
available.
Renaming the server would be quite a big job since I would have to undo all
the changes on the desktops.
What I would like to know, if there is somne utility that would go through
Word and Excel documents to replace references of \\Serverone with either
\\servertwo or <mappeddriveletter>
(let's say 'h:')?
Exchange 2003 is running on the server and I am affraid that I would have to
migrate all mailboxes to another server before I can rename this one.
I need to solve this today, your advice would be greatly appreciated
Zork (the) Hun
zgh@trixnet[spamless].com
did three major projects rolled into one:
- Installation of a new hardware+OS (Windows 2003)
- Migration from Exchange 2000 to 2003 (onto the new system)
- Office 2003 upgrade.
Quite understandably I had a bunch of problems, I need help with the one
effecting the users the most.
As a standard practice, I redirected the "My documents" folders to the users
home directory.
Unfortunately, I always entered a network path instead of drive mapping
\\serverone\share1 instead of X
mapped to serverone\share1) My logic ofchoosing this was the more permanent nature of network paths and that is
where my problem is. The new server has a different name. When I moved all
documents to it, the users started to run into problems. Quite a few of the
documents have references pointing to the server that is no longer
available.
Renaming the server would be quite a big job since I would have to undo all
the changes on the desktops.
What I would like to know, if there is somne utility that would go through
Word and Excel documents to replace references of \\Serverone with either
\\servertwo or <mappeddriveletter>
(let's say 'h:')?
Exchange 2003 is running on the server and I am affraid that I would have to
migrate all mailboxes to another server before I can rename this one.
I need to solve this today, your advice would be greatly appreciated
Zork (the) Hun
zgh@trixnet[spamless].com