JJonas Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 Can I go from 2012 > 2016 and miss out 2012 R2? Also any other advice before I do this upgrade? (other than back it up first)
FN-GM Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 My advice would be not to do an in place upgrade but create a new server and migrate the data. What does the server do?
3s-gtech Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 It depends on its role. For many services, yes. For Exchange and some other highly integrated systems, no.
Arthur Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 If possible I would skip 2016 and upgrade to 2019 due the Windows Update issue (depending upon what the server is doing). www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2016/207993-windows-server-2016-stuck-restarting.html#post1781538
HPlum78 Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) It's a fully supported route by Microsoft these days of building new, the days of migrating have gone (I used to be against in place) more pressing question is why 16 over 19? Edited July 12, 2019 by HPlum78
TwistedHelixis Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 I would do an in place upgrade or install as separate but my big advice would be to jump to 2019. I recently installed 2016 at 2 schools and I hate it already.
mrwoberts Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) https://www.microsoft.com/upgradecenter/scenario/WS2012-on-prem-to-WS2019 Seems to suggest a multi-step upgrade path. Is that absolutely essential or are folks just whacking in the 2019 ISO and setting off from there?? EDIT: Apologies, I posted the wrong link (2008R2 to 2019)... Corrected link (2012 to 2019) Edited July 12, 2019 by mrwoberts
CHiLL Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 https://www.microsoft.com/upgradecenter/scenario/WS2012-on-prem-to-WS2019 Seems to suggest a multi-step upgrade path. Is that absolutely essential or are folks just whacking in the 2019 ISO and setting off from there?? EDIT: Apologies, I posted the wrong link (2008R2 to 2019)... Corrected link (2012 to 2019) I did a direct in-place upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2019, using the ISO on all my servers. Had no issues and that was done last summer.
mrwoberts Posted July 12, 2019 Posted July 12, 2019 I did a direct in-place upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2019, using the ISO on all my servers. Had no issues and that was done last summer. You're right, it suggests 2012 R2 can go directly directly to 2019, but the standard 2012 has to go via 2016. https://www.microsoft.com/upgradecenter/scenario/WS2012-on-prem-to-WS2019 https://www.microsoft.com/upgradecenter/scenario/WS2012R2-on-prem-to-WS2019 1
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