The other day I wrote about using the File Server Migration Toolkit. It is a very handy little tool, however it has its quirks.

In the previous article I mentioned that the default target sharename is sharename_sourcename and the target location is [drive letter]:\sourcename. By selecting the source folder these options can be edited on the right hand side.

This works fine and dandy however, if you have shares nested within shares, there is no way within the FSMT to edit the target sharename to remove the appendage to the original sharename. I am not sure how Microsoft overlooked this, but there is a workaround! When you create a new project an XML file is created with the settings for the project. Proceed as described in the previous article, however after you have validated the settings, and before you start the copy procedure, close FSMT. The settings will be saved in the XML file, find the XML file and open it IE and you will see entries similar to this.

You can see the TargetShare is set to Sharename_SourceServerName. Edit the XML file and remove the _SourceServerName appendage.

Now run the FSMT again, but this time select to Open and Existing Project and select the edited XML file. Proceed with the rest of the FSMT and when complete your shares will be properly named! Another little tip, if you have multitudes of nested shares, is to open the XML file in Notepad and use the Replace command to find and replace all instances of _SourceServerName.