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Upgrade Your Active Directory and Domain Controllers the Safe Way

Introduction There are several good guides on the internet about upgrading your Active Directory Forest, Domains and Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2012 R2. I’d like to give you my strategy on this subject. It’s not wrong to add new Domain Controllers to your 2003/2008 domain, transfer the FSMO roles and demote the 2003/2008 DC’s,

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Upgrading Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller to Windows Server 2012 R2

Recently I performed an in-place Windows Server 2012 domain controller upgrade to 2012 R2. An in-place upgrade will keep the existing documents and settings on the server. Windows Server 2012 R2 is considered an incremental upgrade as it adds features to the operating system rather than make major changes to the operating system. In this blog

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