Preface

Welcome to Instant Migration from Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 to 2012 How-to.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is the latest release of the server operating system from Microsoft. In this release, Microsoft has incorporated various enhancements to the existing functionalities and also introduced new features to support modern IT work environments and workload, which makes this operating system different from the other operating systems that Microsoft has released till date.

The book will walk you through different migration and deployment scenarios based on the author's real-world experience. The goal is to have a native Windows Server 2012 environment by the end of this journey.

To achieve this goal, this book is divided into multiple sections with several recipes. Each recipe will provide you step-by-step instructions for the migration of existing services onto a Windows Server 2012 environment as well as for decommissioning the old Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 server from the current environment.

For a Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 administrator, this book can be used as a reference manual when performing an upgrade or a migration.