Upgrading and updating Windows Server AMA

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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...

EricStarker

Updated Mar 09, 2023

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mtisdel

Copper Contributor

Mar 09, 2023

I'm a random I.T. dude/generalist at a Random MSP from Spartanburg SC. We have a lot of servers to update. I could not find the *supported* in-place scenarios page. If you can point me to that, I would appreciate it. For instance, does MS support going from 2012r2 to 2022? What about 2012 to 2022?

Cliff_Fisher
Microsoft
Mar 09, 2023
The typically supported scenario is that you can upgrade up to 2 OS versions above what you're currently running. There's a table in the following doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/upgrade-overview#which-version-of-windows-server-should-i-upgrade-to