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Join us for our March 9 “Ask Microsoft Anything” chat about Windows Server updates and upgrades. We’ll cover your questions on how to stay more secure by upgrading older servers (2008 and 2012 versio...

Updated Mar 09, 2023

Copper Contributor

Mar 08, 2023

As we are aware, Microsoft recommends upgrading the SharePoint server by adding a new windows 2019 servers to the current farm. Will there be any push back from Microsoft premier support, if the SharePoint servers are In-Place upgraded from WS 2012 to WS 2019 ?

Jeff-Woolsey
Microsoft
Mar 09, 2023
While the Windows Server support team supports in-place upgrades (up to N+2), the SharePoint team does not support in place upgrades. SharePoint Upgrades are documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/overview-of-the-upgrade-process-2019 To learn more about Windows Server in place upgrades and what is supported see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/upgrade-overview
- SumanthShetty
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 09, 2023
  Thank you. An additional question here, on this case, do we get a "Best efforts" support from the MS premier support team or No-support at all?
  - Elden_Christensen
    Microsoft
    Mar 09, 2023
    MS premier support will always try to help you 🙂 But if you venture outside of the tested / known / supported path, there is a limit in what they can do. Which will be 'best effort' focused around configuration type issues, with no escalation path for bugs fixes / product changes and such (meaning they can't call me! LoL). Thanks! Elden