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Yes that was my mistake...someone talking to me when I wrote this up.
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Yes that was my mistake...someone talking to me when I wrote this up.

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That worked beautifully. &nbsp;Thank you for your help
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That worked beautifully.  Thank you for your help

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Hello all,<br />
I have a client that has a singled Windows 2003 server running AD on it. &nbsp;It is a very old server and we want to replace it out with a Windows 2012 server.<br />
I know that when going to Windows 2003 to 2008 the steps I took where:<br />
1) &nbsp;Install 2008 server<br />
2) &nbsp;Add DNS role on the 2008 server<br />
3) &nbsp;Copy files and folders from 2003 to 2008 server<br />
4) &nbsp;Transfer FSMO roles<br />
5) &nbsp;Shutdown 2003 server<br />
6) &nbsp;Run metadata cleanup<br />
7) &nbsp;Change IP address on 2008 server to what 2003 server was.<br />
8) &nbsp;Rename 2008 server to same name as 2003 server<br />
9) &nbsp;Setup shares on folders for 2008 server<br />
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This seemed to work fine with no problems.<br />
My question is when going from 2003 to 2012 (instead of 2008) are there any different procedures or steps that I must do?<br />
Thanks,<br />
Kelly W.
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Hello all,
I have a client that has a singled Windows 2003 server running AD on it.  It is a very old server and we want to replace it out with a Windows 2012 server.
I know that when going to Windows 2003 to 2008 the steps I took where:
1)  Install 2008 server
2)  Add DNS role on the 2008 server
3)  Copy files and folders from 2003 to 2008 server
4)  Transfer FSMO roles
5)  Shutdown 2003 server
6)  Run metadata cleanup
7)  Change IP address on 2008 server to what 2003 server was.
8)  Rename 2008 server to same name as 2003 server
9)  Setup shares on folders for 2008 server

This seemed to work fine with no problems.
My question is when going from 2003 to 2012 (instead of 2008) are there any different procedures or steps that I must do?
Thanks,
Kelly W.

Replace Windows 2003 Server with Windows 2012

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.

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).