to ease the migration from a 2008r2 data server to 2012r2 we set up dfs and replicated the shares, seemed to work out pretty well, users never knew they moved from one server to another over the course of a week.
now we've changed the GPP that maps the drives to point to the new server at \\2012r2server\shares (not the dfs shares)
the namespace itself, \\domain\fs01 contains 8 folders it is replicating. i want to remove the 2008r2 box, decommission it permanently. but the 2012 box replicates with two other 2012r2 servers in that namespace, so the namespace needs to remain.So just stopping replication isn't sufficient.
here's the variables:
2012r2 server doubles as a domain controller, which has the DFS role (theres no problem de-promoing that server btw) and is the new server with the data we'd like to keep
2008r2 server has file services role with dfs mgmt, this server will be decommissioned
two other 2012r2 servers in fs01 namespace that replicate two folders that should remain in tact.
when this is complete, instead of 8 folders i currently see in the namespace, i should only see one.
is this post actually all i'm looking to do? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/35737c1a-c865-44db-8cf3-6add1247374a/remove-dfs-share
thanks for the advice.