Operating System Migration Tools
Microsoft provides tools that help administrators migrate from older versions of the Windows Server operating system to Windows Server 2012. The supported migration paths are as follows:
• Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2—These operating systems can be migrated to Windows Server 2012 using the operating system migration tools and guidance documentation.
• x86 and x64—Servers can be migrated from x86 to x64 and from x64 to x64 with limitations. Because Windows Server 2012 is an x64 operating system only, there is no in-place upgrade support from x86 to x64, so the upgrade path is a server-to-server transition, not in-place. However, x64 to x64 in-place is supported as long as any ...
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