Easy Active Directory Migration From Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2022

We explain and demonstrate how to migrate Active Directory from Server 2012 to Server 2022, move the FSMO roles and upgrade the Domain and Forest Functional Levels.

There are 6 key steps to the process:

1: install Server 2022 and join it to the Domain
2: patch upgrade everything
3: add AD to the new Server 2022
4: Move FSMO's from the older Server 2012 to the new Server 2022
5: Update DNS in DHCP and Statics then Demote old server 2012
6: Upgrade the Domain and Forest Level

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[jscooper]

As an IT Manager with a background in programming, I freely admit to knowing enough about networking and Domain Controllers to be dangerous. I was dreading upgrading our 2012r2 server to 2022. Today, it went off almost without a hitch. Thanks for the clear, accurate, and comprehensive video! Oh, and the hitch? Just make sure you don't accidentally change your timezone and throw off the time by 3 hours. Oops.😬

[Raven]

This tutorial has come at the right time. Updating a small office of 12 users from 2012 essentials to 2022 essentials. Thank you so much for taking the time and showing the steps. Thumbs up and subscribed.

[Ionutd]

Thank you very much! this tutorial helped me to migrate my 2012 AD to 2019 AD in minutes. The video is precise and easy to follow. Congrats!

[ilyaszhumashev]

By accident I was assigned an urgent task to move DC from a VM to a Windows host OS. With my limited AD knowledge, thanks to this video, I was able to get this done within half an hour. My honest gratitude to the author for concise, efficient instructions in this video.

[larryclark]

I have a migration scheduled for tomorrow and am very happy to have found your video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙂

[keithhuddleston]

Great tutorial. This really helped me with migrating from 2012R2 to 2016 domain and forest. Thanks again.

[kittiesandcolas]

Thanks Bro!! This isn't something I do more than once every 2 years, I always fumble through through the errors.. this video is so handy, thanks again! 🤘🐱🌱🍄

[laurajacobs]

Again - many thanks. It was such a clear, comprehensive explanation that I just used it on a job. I feel like I should split my fee with you!

[shanzig]

Very well done. Covered a couple of pieces I had overlooked in the past

[Helldonyt]

Very informative to anyone looking to upgrade!

[ruru]

Did my first DC migration and it went well, thanks to this video!

[olaseniaboaba]

Thanks for this short piece really helpful.

[darkenpire]

Fast, efficient, straight to the goal. Félicitations

[michaelsanders]

Will be trying this tomorrow for a client. It would be nice if MS put out videos like this, or made a wizard for this rather than having people play Where's Waldo to find and move different roles...but that would make too much sense. Thanks for the helpful video.

[MrSysadmin]

Here we are in 2023, once again migrating the same domain, that was created on 2003 Small Business Server (+SQL, + Exchange), virtualized and migrated to 2012 R2, and now migrating to Windows Server 2022 - completed introduction of 2022 DC and transferred roles. Everything still works after all these years, although I still find remnants of SBS2003 here and there :)

[zkilla]

Great Video. Looking to do this some time this year. Just getting the 2022 licensing together for now

[andreylearns]

Thanks for this well made video. Does doing this also transfer all users/groups/computers etc. from the old AD server to the new one?

[vaclavfreml]

Maaaannn, thank you much, i just did this in small dental clinic, everything was just as you described

[laurajacobs]

Thank you for this! i have to do this over the holiday.

[ThePatsev]

After demoting the DC I was not able to login. Logon services unavailable. Reboot did not help;.