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Windows Server 2022 Std migration
2. Migrating your AD and joining your clients to the new one and having to recreate/link/change a lot of things is not something you want to do. How many clients/users are we talking about here? Perhaps cleaning your AD with old groups/users/computer accounts is easier?
3. If it works for you and your users without performance issues and with a good backup system, why not?
But you do have a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V host, according to this list (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn792027(v=ws.11)) Windows Server 2022 is not supported on that. So you will have to upgrade your Hyper-V server too to at least Server 2016, does your hardware support that?
1. OK
2. we have 40 users but i need to create a new Domain and have previous users, as you can see on screenshot my users are now under domain/MyBusiness/SBSUsers
3. OK
The current host is a Windows 2012R2 and the new Host is a new server with Windows 2022 Std so i no need to upgrade it.
I'd like to create a new DC with new domain, imported users, then i'll move VM1,2,3
What do you think ?
Ok, if you move the VM's to the new host then that problem is solved 🙂 But don't create a new domain and do a lot of work, you can create a new OU structure in your AD and move the users there (Beware of Group Policy's that might be linked to the My Business OU's . Afterwards you can change the default location for new computers and users by using redirusr and redircmp to point to your new OU where you keep your users and computers. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/redirect-users-computers-containers)
Just create a new VM, promote it do additional domaincontroller in the same domain and when it has replicated everything and you changed the DNS/DHCP settings etc. The old Domaincontroller can then be removed. Or you can do a in-place upgrade, not always recommended... Have a good backup of your DC ready if needed
