In-place upgrade of the guest operating system (between major OS release versions, such as Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 or Windows Server 2025) is not recommended. The best practice is to install a new major OS release in a new VM. ...
Hello, I could use some guidance on how to upgrade my KMS server from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2022. We would like to deploy a new server and not do an in-place upgrade of our KMS server. My organization runs mostly Windows 10/11,…
Hello, I want to upgrade a Windows Server 2019 that runs Exchange 365 to Windows Server 2022 Standard and keep the Exchange as is. Until last year Microsoft was officially supporting Windows Server 2019 for Exchange. (Technically you could run Exchange…
In-place upgrade of the guest operating system (between major OS release versions, such as Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016) is not recommended. The best practice is to install a new major OS releases in a new VM. Support considerations: Read OS vendor'...
Harm_Veenstra to Zach_B635Apr 11, 2022 Did a in-place upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2019 just last week for two servers, no issues.. It just depends on the installed software/drivers/anti-virus etc if it will work. But nobody thinks twice about upgrading Windows ...
Did a in-place upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2019 just last week for two servers, no issues.. It just depends on the installed software/drivers/anti-virus etc if it will work. But nobody thinks twice about upgrading Windows 7 tot 8 to 8.1 to 10 to ...
The Microsoft Entra admin change for the SQL Server instance takes place without a server restart, once the process is completed with the SQL Server's Azure Arc agent. For the new admin to display in sys.server_principals, the SQL Server instance must be restarted...
For example, you can perform an in-place operating system (OS) upgrade (feature update) to a newer version of Windows Server, a clean install of a newer version Windows Server, or even migrate your existing system to Windows Server.
Supported in-place upgrade paths Domain controllers that run 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 can be upgraded to Windows Server 2012 . You can't upgrade domain controllers that run Windows Server 2003 or 32-bit versions of Windows Server 2008. To replace them,...
released, so I wanted to keep this on-premises lab going. I decided that it was time to upgrade my Lab's aging domain controller to a newer, more secure operating system. In-place upgrades from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2022 are possible butnot...