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Step by step guide for upgrading Active Directory from Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Sometime ago, I wrote a blog about upgrading from Windows 2003 based Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2 based Active Directory. If you are planning to upgrade now from Windows Server 2008 R2 based Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 R2 based Active Directory, the steps are the same and you can found them at my earlier blog.

Step by step guide for upgrading Active Directory from Microsoft Windows 2003 to Microsoft Windows Server 2008

https://blogs.technet.com/b/omers/archive/2010/06/30/step-by-step-guide-for-upgrading-active-directory-from-microsoft-windows-2003-to-microsoft-windows-server-2008.aspx 

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    It would be recommended to run adprep separately in case you face any issues.
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2015
    Can't you skip the adprep steps in your guide since Server 2012 R2 already has it built into the AD Role installation process?
  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2015
    You can protect your organizational Units from accidental deletion by using Power Shell scripts to apply
  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2015
    I was recently working with a customer where one of their Active Directory would not replicate. They
  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2015
    Recently Microsoft Exchange team has written a blog about large messages in Office 365. I see many customers
  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2015
    Microsoft has recently released an initial look at Exchange 2016 architecture and Exchange team has written
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2015
    Recently Exchange team has written an excellent article on Exchange processor and memory usage and how
  • Anonymous
    July 31, 2015
    In a recent project I was working on ADFS with multiple applications and customer also had SAP to be
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2015
    Recently i was troubleshooting some integration issues between SCVMM, SPF and Windows Azure Pack (WAP