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I need to upgrade my windows server 2012 r2 standard edition to Windows Server 2019 standard edition
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What problem are you trying to solve?
as the default image of windows server in azure is datacenter edition and we had migrated win server 2012r2 standard edition from on-prem to azure now we need to upgrade server from win 2012r2 standard edition to Win server 2019 standard edition
Standard edition to Standard edition
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You could follow along here with method 2
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HI ,
You can create a custom image for Win 2019 Server Standard edition and have that in ISO format.
Once that is done , you can directly mount it from within the 2012 Server and follow the steps , select to keep the settings and complete the inplace upgrade.
We have done this activity for 100s of servers from 2012 R2 to either 2019 or 2022 Server Standard version.
Please Accept as answer if the reply is helpful
Hello @Mustaqueem, Mohammed,
Welcome to the MS Q&A forum.
As of my last knowledge, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard does generally support in-place upgrades within Azure to Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition.
Currently, built in-place upgrade in Azure supported from to:
Windows Versions Not Yet Supported for In-Place Upgrade in Azure
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For versions of Windows that are not currently supported, create an Azure VM that's running a supported version. And then either migrate the workload (Method 1, preferred), or download and upgrade the VHD of the VM (Method 2). To prevent data loss, back up the Windows 10 VM by using Azure Backup. Or use a third-party backup solution from Azure Marketplace Backup & Recovery.
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Sincerely,
Olga