Comments on: SOLVED: VIDEO: Easy Active Directory Migration From Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2022

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Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:36:32 +0000

[…] the practical answer to this question is, no. Let us explain. When you make a change to a group in Active Directory that change will take place instantly however because Windows only enumerates what groups a user […]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:51:02 +0000

In reply to Tim. Tim, Found your comment while strolling through. when you promote the server to a domain controller, it should replicate the users and groups, GPOs, DNS and basically copy your Primary Controller. As for the files, write a script to move the shares. Then just update your GPOs with the new path of the shares and push a gpupdate /force. Im in the process of doing this myself! Best of luck!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:07:28 +0000

Very helpful, thankyou. This is what i’ve been looking for for migrating a customer from 2012 to 2022.

Two major question I have though: Their DC has all the users, as well as their entire shared files drive.
When I change FSMOs to the new 2022, do all the users, and GPO etc get copied across tot he 2022 machine?
And what about files and folders? Do I have to manually transfer them over and re-share and map them through the GPOs?

Thanks

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 01:03:42 +0000

In reply to Jay Scott.

Not that I am aware of. DFS died with Server 08 but it kept running if you already had it in place.

I did a bit of research and found only 1 comment I thought was useful:

Run “repadmin /syncall” after the dfsrmig commands to speed up things a bit.

By: Jay Scott

Jay Scott — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:00:53 +0000

Like this scenario, I am going from 08 R2 to 2022…. I have read a bunch about problems migrating SYSVOL from frs to DFSR. Are there more steps than shown in this video? Or can this process work migrating content from old to new with out blowing up sysvol?