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General advice is to migrate unless you have very few users and assuming the original server (the source server is in good health)<br />
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I do one migration per month at the moment <br />
And a purely personal experience suggests <br />
A migration is best for more than 10 users<br />
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If it is your first experience print out a copy of the Microsoft migration guide and follow it to the letter <br />
Preparation of the source server is important <br />
Moving folders including the public should be done (even if you do not use them)<br />
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And when the migration is finished <br />
Do not miss the steps to demote and remove the old server (otherwise you are likely to have issues with the server performance)
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General advice is to migrate unless you have very few users and assuming the original server (the source server is in good health)

I do one migration per month at the moment
And a purely personal experience suggests
A migration is best for more than 10 users

If it is your first experience print out a copy of the Microsoft migration guide and follow it to the letter
Preparation of the source server is important
Moving folders including the public should be done (even if you do not use them)

And when the migration is finished
Do not miss the steps to demote and remove the old server (otherwise you are likely to have issues with the server performance)

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There are only 7 computers and users. Also, this is moving from SBS to vanilla. Do you still recommend this?<br />
If so, is the migration guide easy to find?
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There are only 7 computers and users. Also, this is moving from SBS to vanilla. Do you still recommend this?
If so, is the migration guide easy to find?

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Hello,<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;We are moving from a SBS 2003 server to a 2012 Standard one. Should we setup a whole new domain or try to migrate?
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Hello,
   We are moving from a SBS 2003 server to a 2012 Standard one. Should we setup a whole new domain or try to migrate?

Moving from SBS 2003 to Windows Server 2012

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.