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:
• Take the time to understand the goals of the project (What will the organization gain by doing the upgrade?) and the scope of the project (What is included and what is excluded from the project?).
• Understand all the applications that connect with Windows Server 2012 and whether they are critical, near-critical, or simply nice to have.
• Accelerate a migration to Windows Server 2012 by using the MAP toolkit.
• Document the research process for each application because this will prove to be very valuable if problems are encountered during the testing process.
• Create a lab environment that is as close to the final end state of the upgrade as possible. This reduces the variables ...
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