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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
ABarone19
Mar 09, 2023Copper Contributor
Are there any scenarios that you do not recommend doing an upgrade such as VMware hosted, or a server with a particular role?
Michael Painter
Mar 09, 2023Copper Contributor
My experience is that Small Business Server 2011 and earlier that came bundled with Exchange and or Sharepoint can be a PITA to upgrade. Best practices dictate creating new VM with modern OS and migrate roles and features. Or for smaller organizations, just create a new Domain Structure, and either migrate accounts via domain trust relationship or manually recreate the OUs and Users, remove workstations from old domain and join to new domain.
- ABarone19Mar 09, 2023Copper ContributorAh cool. Our earliest version is 2012r2 so I think we should be good on that end. Thankfully got off of onprem exchange ages ago!
- Michael PainterMar 09, 2023Copper ContributorYou should be good to go. Always have a fallback plan, backup, backup backup...