I. PRE-MIGRATION
- Migration planning
- – number of network interface cards (NICs)
- Prepare Source server
- – back up
- – collect migration data
- Prepare Destination server
- – install Windows Server 2012 R2
- – assign temporary server name
- – assign temporary IP address
- – join domain
II. MIGRATION
- Make Destination server a Domain Controller
- Manually migrate DNS server settings
- Transfer FSMO roles (faster with CMD):
- Start CMD as Administrator
- C:\Users\Administrator>ntdsutil
- ntdsutil: roles
- fsmo maintenance: connections
- server connections: connect to server dc1 [dc1 is the name of the old server/FSMO master]
- server connections: quit
- fsmo maintenance: transfer naming master
- fsmo maintenance: transfer infrastructure master
- fsmo maintenance: transfer PDC
- fsmo maintenance: transfer RID master
- fsmo maintenance: transfer schema master
- fsmo maintenance: quit
- ntdsutil: quit
- Migrate IP addresses and rename server
- Perform verification steps
III. POST-MIGRATION (OPTIONAL)
- Retire Source server
- Roll-back migration
- Troubleshoot migration