Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Ensure that one of the post-upgrade tasks performed is an audit of all services so that servers that need IIS have the service reenabled after migration.
• Because prototype phases of a project are essential to test the design assumptions for a migration or implementation, create a production DC and then isolate it in the lab for testing.
• Test the hardware compatibility of any server that will be directly upgraded to Windows Server 2012 against the published HCL from Microsoft.
• Keep in mind that Windows Server 2012 is only available as 64-bit when developing migration plans. Older 32-bit hardware will need to be decommissioned or repurposed.
• Because the decision to raise ...
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