Upgrading my HP Microserver to WSE 2016

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Quartz-1

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I'm going to upgrade my HP Microserver Gen 8 to Windows Server Essentials 2016.

Please give me your tips, tricks, and pratfalls. I'm particularly interested in preparation work I should do.
 
By upgrade, I mean that I'll be wiping WSE 2012 and installing WSE 2016 - I'm aware that an in-place upgrade isn't possible.
 
If you're not joining an existing domain, it's pretty easy.
Just let the configuration wizard do it's thing.

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Well, I'm holding off for now. HP are launching their new Microservers this week.
 
I built a new server with 2016 Essentials to replace my old HP Mediasmart.
Easy peasy. I didn't do any prep work.
I did join my machines to the 2016 domain, but I still just log in to my workstations with the local account.
 
I'm no longer holding off. The new HP Microservers seem to lack ILO and aren't otherwise much of an improvement on the old one.
 
The software has arrived, the SSD is here with adaptor cable. I'm just waiting on the quad core CPU. And then, well, I might be some time. :)

It's a pity that I'm going to have to wipe and install; I would much rather an in-place upgrade, if only to preserve my Active Directory. Still, it's an opportunity to configure things better this time around.
 
The correct procedure when replacing domain controllers is to use DCPROMO to promote the new DC and demote the old DC - Everything should replicate in the process.
 
Quartz-1 said:
The software has arrived, the SSD is here with adaptor cable. I'm just waiting on the quad core CPU. And then, well, I might be some time. :)

It's a pity that I'm going to have to wipe and install; I would much rather an in-place upgrade, if only to preserve my Active Directory. Still, it's an opportunity to configure things better this time around.
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Which CPU did you go with? I just got my E3-1265L V2 last night, what a great upgrade over the G1610T. Finally got sick of it taking ages to do anything CPU intensive, and this is something like a 350% increase in multithreaded performance, for only a 25% increase in TDP. So far there's no change in temps or fan speeds that I've noticed.
 
BulletDust said:
The correct procedure when replacing domain controllers is to use DCPROMO to promote the new DC and demote the old DC - Everything should replicate in the process.
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This assumes you have more than one server; I do not. Nor do I have a Server 2012 licence available with which to build one.

JBark said:
Which CPU did you go with? I just got my E3-1265L V2 last night, what a great upgrade over the G1610T.
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Yup, that's the one.
 
That's well spotted. So the task will be to move the OS partition to my SSD, then perform an in-place upgrade.
 
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