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Sometimes I need to migrate a large amount of shared files on a network from one drive or system to another for better organization, more space, security concerns, or whatever the reason might be. However, a migration like this can interrupt network users who need access to those files. In this post I’ll show you a better method for file migration, which is now a staple in my IT arsenal, as it has proven useful many times.

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At the company where I work, we run a client portal web app that gives our clients access to their files through a password protected website that dynamically generates content individually for each client. We wanted to provide a secondary method for our clients to access their files should anything happen, so we opted for creating an FTP site in IIS with the option Isolate users using Active Directory, since our Win2K3 servers support it out of the box. Our idea was to have the client portal web app add the user accounts and home directory properties to Active Directory automatically so we wouldn’t have to configure these things manually using scripts. To date, our solution has been working very reliably.

Setting up a user FTP should be a straightforward Windows administration task, but you might find that the Isolate users using Active Directory option doesn’t work as you would expect. While IIS allows you to select this user isolation mode during the creation of a new FTP site, it obscures some of the configuration that is essential to making everything work properly. This article focuses on those hidden essentials.

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