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Upgrading to New 2012 Server as Domain Controller

We are updating to a new 2012 server to be our domain controller. We are upgrading from a single 2008 32bit domain controller that will be demoted and retired. I have successfully checked domain functionality and it is currently at 2003, added the new 2012 server to the domain and added the roles AD DS and DNS. I have promoted the server to a DC and checked all and the AD appears to be populated correctly. We do have a separate exchange 2010 server in the domain that will remain for now. What do I need to do next? Transfer the FSMO roles from the 2008 32bit server to the New 2012 server? Is there any other tasks that would need to be accomplished for the exchange server?

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Going forward I was thinking on adding the server 2012 as a virtual server. The older 2008 32bit server was not virtual, but I do not want to loose some good functionality down the road when needed in the future. Any thoughts on this idea? the 2012 server a dell R730 has 64gb ram 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 processors, and 8 Tb free space. This is more the capable of handling our load as a virtual or physical server. Our applications can run in a virtual mode with some homework on resource allocation, Exchange 2010 and Newforma our project server are our most critical application servers.

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Yes , of course with proper allocation of rescources you can have virtualized exchange servers. This is being done in full scale in alot of places the DCs, exchange servers, everything is virtualized.

ajc2c

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Thanks for the input I found several posts online that support my and your knowledge its not a good idea. I listed one post with info on why its not a good idea. Thanks again!

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