Microsoft has announced it will be retiring Foldershare in December and replace it with Live Sync. Basically this completes the move of Foldershare into the “Live” services however several changes are taking place. For one there will be no more Pro version of Foldershare and your current libraries will not be automatically moved to Live Sync:

Windows Live Sync replacing FolderShare: What you need to know

Dear FolderShare user,

We're contacting you to let you know what's next for FolderShare, and to make you aware of some important changes.

In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It's going to look familiar and offer the same great features, plus:

• More folders and files - sync up to 20 folders with 20,000 files each.
• Integration with Windows Live ID - no more extra sign-in stuff to remember.
• Integration with the Recyle Bin - no more separate Trash folder to fiddle with.
• Unicode support - sync files in other languages.

A huge part of Sync's success story depends on FolderShare users like you. When Sync releases, FolderShare goes into retirement. That means your FolderShare software will stop working and will ask you to upgrade to Sync. Once you do, Sync will automatically rebuild your personal folders. We expect a lot of new users when Sync is released, so if you can't sign in right away, please give it a little time.

Here's the part you need to pay attention to: Sync will not be able to rebuild your shared libraries. If you have a lot of shared libraries, you should hop over to the FolderShare website while it's still available and copy all that information. You'll need it to rebuild your shared libraries in Sync.

You should also note that the Professional option is being retired with the FolderShare name. Sync has a single offer, which provides free synchronization for up to 20 libraries and 20,000 files. We'll be working to raise those numbers as our service grows.

Thanks for being a FolderShare user! We're excited about delivering an even better file-synchronization experience to customers like you. We hope you'll come along as we move forward with Windows Live Sync.

Sincerely,

The Windows Live Sync (formerly FolderShare) team

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This could have a few more uses than just server consolidation.

Microsoft just announced the release of Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.1, which will help you migrate file shares from computers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 to computers running Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008. You can use it to consolidate multiple file servers or simply to migrate files between servers.

Here are the main benefits of FSMT:

• Simplifies the complex and error-prone migration process
• Maintains UNC paths and eliminates broken shortcuts and links
• Maintains security settings after the migration
• Consolidates shared folders with the same names from different servers
• Supports server clusters as source and target file servers
• Provides roll-back functionality
• Adds support for Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008 (x86 or x64)
• Includes both the DFS Consolidation Root Wizard and the Dfsconsolidate.exe command-line tool

http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/10/30/microsoft-file-server-migration-toolkit-1-1-available-as-a-free-download.aspx