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Bruce_Cranksh1
Level 6
9 years ago

In Place Upgrade of OS

Hi All I have  a customer that wants to upgrade the OS of 4 EV servers from windows 2008 to windows 2012R2 ( these are Hyper-V VM)   Normally I would do an EV Server Move, create the new  VM...
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  • Bruce_Cranksh1's avatar
    Bruce_Cranksh1
    9 years ago

    Hi Guys

    The process works, so the steps are

     

    • Uninstall the EV binaries on each server
    • Upgrade the OS to Windows 2102
    • Reinstall EV and because the server name is the same when you run the EV Config it works as expected and EV does a recovery on the new OS

     

    Problem solved 

     

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TonySterling
Moderator
9 years ago

Since they are VM's you can always take a Snapshot and roll back if needed.  Have you seen this blog?  https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/chrisavis/2013/10/01/performing-an-in-place-upgrade-of-server-2008-r2-to-server-2012-r2/

 

Sounds like it might work.