Server 2012 R2 upgrade

Question

How do I go about upgrading existing 2012 VMs to 2012 R2?

Answer 1

Hi

For my experience, I would perfer to create a new 2012 R2 then upgrading existing 2012 VM.

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Answer 2

@Vivian - I appreciate your advise to create a new 2012 R2 VM rather than upgrading an existing one. However, this might not be a reasonable option for a lot of scenarios where you have existing production VMs that you can't simply recreate. 

So the question remains - what is the recommended way to upgrade to 2012 R2 - an upgrade that seems essential especially noting that a VM runs 30% faster  (see this blog post http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/10/18/windows-azure-announcing-support-for-windows-server-2012-r2-some-nice-price-cuts.aspx)

Answer 3

Hi TXDJC & FlyingDutcman26

Did you find an answer to your question? If so, would you please share it here with us. I have the same issue and posted the same question in a different thread:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/6b1f98d6-977e-475b-ae8c-c08b03d8fa4d/upgrading-win-server-2012-datacenter-to-2012-r2?referrer=http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/6b1f98d6-977e-475b-ae8c-c08b03d8fa4d/upgrading-win-server-2012-datacenter-to-2012-r2?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows

(wish I had seen yours first).

Answer 4

 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/6b1f98d6-977e-475b-ae8c-c08b03d8fa4d/upgrading-win-server-2012-datacenter-to-2012-r2?referrer=http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/6b1f98d6-977e-475b-ae8c-c08b03d8fa4d/upgrading-win-server-2012-datacenter-to-2012-r2?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows

now has the answer (though not the answer we like to hear).