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I ended buying a new server and going to migrate our environment to Hyper-V and set everything up correctly and make things more efficient on our end.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Paul
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I ended buying a new server and going to migrate our environment to Hyper-V and set everything up correctly and make things more efficient on our end.

Thanks

Paul

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I have a physical windows 2008 R2 server that is just a file server and backup DNS server. &nbsp;I need to do a full migration to a new server. &nbsp;What is the most efficent way to accomplish this task? &nbsp;<br />
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paul
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I have a physical windows 2008 R2 server that is just a file server and backup DNS server.  I need to do a full migration to a new server.  What is the most efficent way to accomplish this task?  

paul

P2P Migration

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