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Use the Storage Migration Tool to make your life easier https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/overview

I failed to mention that the stand-alone namespace server, sits in front of 32 File Servers with ~140TB of data. I just need to get out of sight, out of mind, server off of 2008R2. There's no data on it, it just hosts the namespace... unfortunately it's not a domain namespace... or this wouldn't be an issue 😞