Upgrading from 2016

[Sonic007]

Hi,

 

I've not done an upgrade from 2016 to 2022 before and wondered how best to go about it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

1. Windows Server 2022 is showing in my Micorsoft Volume Licensing. Does this mean I can install or do I need to buy a different license as we purchased 2016?

 

2. Is it straighrforward to upgrade? Anything I should be aware of?

 

 

Many thanks.

[Guest Guest]

Just done a in-place upgrade from 2016-2019-2022 about 10-15 minutes ago and all seems to have gone smoothly.

 

It all went well for me though

[Sonic007]

Did you have to purchase a new license?

 

And can you go straight from 2016 to 2022 or do you have to go via 2019?

 

Thankyou.

[slim1986]

Did you have to purchase a new license?

 

And can you go straight from 2016 to 2022 or do you have to go via 2019?

 

Thankyou.

You shouldn't need a new license, it should be included in your OVS

[LeMarchand]

The basics are covered here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/office-software/227538-office-2021-files.html

 

Just download the ODT which will give you the setup file, craft your configuration xml. IIRC make sure you include the

 

 

lines to remove the old bits then download the necessary files and use a script to deploy.

Edited May 4, 2022 by LeMarchand

[KK20]

I have a frankenserver VM, it holds the BMS and is fairly locked down on its own VLAN. It started life as a physical 2008 machine and was P2V. I have inplace upgraded it all the way to 2022 over the years, it is a sort of joke system for us as it must have so much cruft in the registry but it has never had any issues. I did the same as I always did. Remove any profiles from the server that arent needed (in place upgrading updates all the profiles too so that might be an issue). Downloaded the ISO, ran setup, declined "updates during the installers", keep all the apps. Let it reboot. Reboot it again. Run updates. Job done.

 

the only servers I *dont* in place upgrade are the physical hosts, VM SQL and VM exchange server. All the rest have been inplace upgraded. DCs get demoted first, upgraded then promoted. 2016->2022 is a supported upgrade so you should be ok. Others have said but assuming you are education volume licensing, you will already have a 2022 key in your MVLSC - in fact you are using downgrade rights to license your 2016 from 2022 right now. If you use KMS for your servers then you will need to request a new KMS server key as they dont tend to be given out naturally these days (we use MAK so not an issue).

 

Our "playground" lab R610 has also been put on life support as there are no drivers in 2022 for the PERC card, that is a shame as we used that old beast as our testbed for many years.

 

It goes without saying make sure you have a *TESTED* backup first.

Edited May 23, 2022 by KK20