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moving windows 2003 AD/DC to windows 2012

hi, I have a windows 2003 sbs and I'm looking at migrating to windows 2012 server.
I'm at the first stage of adding a windows 2012 server as a member server, with which I want to add as an AD, then move the DC to it.
I'm trying to understand if I need or can run adprep on the 32 bit win 2003 server.

I've read on some forums, you can
http://activedirectoryfaq.blogspot.ca/2009/11/upgrading-windows-nt-40-domain-to.html

and some you have to add the AD to the win 2012 and it does it all via a wizard.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/09/03/introducing-the-first-windows-server-2012-domain-controller.aspx

I'm lost, can you help

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i'm now trying to install exchange 2010 onto another server on the same domain, but stuck on the first part of configuring the AD with the following steps :-

Setup.com /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions
Setup.com /PrepareSchema
Setup.com /PrepareAD

I have tried this on the 2012 AD server powershell, which errors.

I understand I need to run the command in powershell. But don't know where and on what ever.

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many thanks