OK, I normally don't blog about things I do at work, I really should as it would be handy to remember some of the techie things I learn along the way.
I thought this one would be simple:
Migrating data from a share to a cluster share on Windows 2008R2 but still allow user to access the data using the old share name.
Simple I thought copy the data and then create an CName alias so users can still access there data using the old share name, bingo, not having to worry if people how have created shortcuts using a UNC rather than a mapped drive etc....
Except that didn't work, something to do with the Client Access Point and lots of people saying do this reg hack and add this to get round this, these do work but not on a Cluster Share.
In fact I had come to to conclusion it didn't work, in fact I even read Microsoft Support confirmed this until I found this:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/08/24/using-multiple-client-access-points-cap-in-a-windows-server-2008-r2-failover-cluster.aspx
It works, simple, couple of points though.
1. If you have lots of shares each one will need a new IP, so probably not the solution for you.
2. On Windows 2012 you just need to run a command to add an alias, not annoying!
Hope this helps someone out, as the only way I found this solution on Google was by searching for Client Access Points as a last ditch attempt on a Friday afternoon.
Gavin
