Upgrade Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2 in-place upgrade

I have tried to do an in place upgrade for Windows Server 2012 Standard to Windows Server 2012 R2 using the in-place upgrade at least a dozen times. Always with the same unhelpful failure message.
I have tried downloading the latest (setup) update and not downloading it - makes no difference - same error.
I would really rather upgrade this server than re-install. I have scoured the internet looking for answers and I can't find anything useful.
I have downloaded the latest 2012 R2 Standard iso. The version of 2012 installed is a stock retail Standard version it was never an eval version.
Any help much appreciated.
Andy

I did check the article. I did the ADPREP as described and adprep worked fine. Unfortunately it did not make any difference. Log entries below:
setupact
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info MIG End of hive list
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Warning [0x0803db] MIG IndirectKeyMapper: RegLoadKey(HKEY_USERS,S-1-5-21-902023783-652776199-2643897273-500 (1),C:\Users\Administrator\NTUSER.DAT) failed; giving up (32)
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x08039d] MIG Cannot add mapping for user profile C:\Users\Administrator. Error: 32: Win32Exception: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. [0x00000020] __cdecl
Mig::CIndirectKeyMapper::CIndirectKeyMapper(class UnBCL::String *,struct HKEY__ *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int,int,const Mig::HiveLoadRetryOptions *)[gle=0x000000cb]
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x080801] MIG User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.[gle=0x000000cb]
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Warning [0x0803de] MIG Failed to unload hive at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\$ONLINE_RW$ELAM (error 1314)
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Warning [0x0809d4] MIG Failed to close keymapper 'ELAM': error 1314
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Warning [0x0803de] MIG Failed to unload hive at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\$ONLINE_RW$ELAM (error 1314)
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error MigStartupOnline caught exception: Win32Exception: User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.: The specified user does not have
a valid profile. [0x000004E5] void __cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::ProcessUser(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class Mig::CRegistryDataUnit *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int,int)
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info Leaving MigStartupOnline method
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error MIG pDoOnlineGather: Engine initialization failed with error: 0x00000004
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x0800ad] MIG Callback_GatherOldSys: Migration phase failed.
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info MIG PublishCriticalError: Setup can't continue. Restart the computer and restart Setup. When prompted, try getting the latest updates.
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info [0x0a013d] UI Accepting Cancel. Exiting Page Progress.
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info UI Entering Page Cancel.
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info [0x0a0035] UI Allowing Page 'App Compat' to be shown
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info [0x0a0035] UI Allowing Page 'App Compat' to be shown
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Info [0x0a011c] UI WizardDialogPost::SetActive
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x070042] DIAG CallBack_DiagnosticDataSend: Called with notification for Error published by ErrorHandler
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0a0023] UI progress task ProgressInfo\SendDiagnostics : StartProgress
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG DiagnosticDataSendWorker: Phase=1 Start time was 0X309961825, End time was 0X309962C98, total time was 0X1473
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x070044] DIAG DiagnosticDataSendWorker: startSetupTimeInSecs = 0X309962634
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x070045] DIAG Processing Diagnostic data at 2014-05-28 09:17:28
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x070046] DIAG DiagnosticDataSendWorker: endSetupTimeInSecs = 0X309963AA8
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG DiagnosticDataSendWorker: setupInstallTime = 0X1474
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG DiagnosticDataSendWorker: User is NOT OPTED-IN for SQM and Watson.
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0a0024] UI progress task ProgressInfo\SendDiagnostics : EndProgress
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090095] PANTHR WdsExitImmediate called! Execution will stop, and the queue won't be saved.
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG Module path is [C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\setup.exe]
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG Module version is [6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)]
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG Module path is [C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\setup.exe]
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info DIAG Failed install count for build [6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)] is [12]
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info IBS Successfully incremented the failed install count on this machine
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0800af] MIG Leaving Callback_GatherOldSys (failure)
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x09008c] PANTHR SeqExecute -- stopping, since WdsExitImmediate() was called
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info PANTHR DeleteCriticalSection for pExecQueue->csLock;
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0500bd] DU Module_Term_DU called
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x050081] DU Done with DU. DUMgr is cleaning up...
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x050082] DU Cleanup completed
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0605a6] IBS Requested UI to hide the language and locale selection pages.
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x06010d] IBS Module_Term_Productkey: Valid product key in blackboard, show property set to hide.
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info UI CallbackWin32UITerminate: Deleted WizardUI
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090081] PANTHR Destroying any unreferenced modules! (SEQ6)
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x0601d7] IBS InstallWindows:Error Type = 3211266
2014-05-28 09:17:28, Info [0x090009] PANTHR CBlackboard::Close: c:\$windows.~bt\sources\panther\setupinfo.
setuperr
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x08039d] MIG Cannot add mapping for user profile C:\Users\Administrator. Error: 32: Win32Exception: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. [0x00000020] __cdecl
Mig::CIndirectKeyMapper::CIndirectKeyMapper(class UnBCL::String *,struct HKEY__ *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int,int,const Mig::HiveLoadRetryOptions *)[gle=0x000000cb]
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x080801] MIG User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.[gle=0x000000cb]
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error MigStartupOnline caught exception: Win32Exception: User profile loading error. Aborting due to external request.: The specified user does not have
a valid profile. [0x000004E5] void __cdecl Mig::COnlineWinNTPlatform::ProcessUser(class Mig::CRegistryDataStore *,class Mig::CRegistryDataUnit *,class UnBCL::String *,class UnBCL::String *,int,int)
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error MIG pDoOnlineGather: Engine initialization failed with error: 0x00000004
2014-05-28 07:56:56, Error [0x0800ad] MIG Callback_GatherOldSys: Migration phase failed.
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$ServiceApplication = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Name $SearchServiceName -ApplicationPool $spAppPool.Name -DatabaseServer $DatabaseServer -DatabaseName $DatabaseName
Account mydomain\admin is an farm managed account, domain admin account, in WG_ADMIN role, It is in all SQL server roles and is DBO. I see search DBs are already on SQL server. From Event viewer, I got following errors in sequence:
(1) Crawler:Content Plugin under source Crawler:Content Plugin
Content Plugin can not be initialized - list of CSS addresses is not set.
(2) Warning for SharePoint Server Search
A database error occurred. Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider Code: 8169 occurred 0 time(s) Description: Error ordinal: 1 Message: Conversion failed when converting from a character string to uniqueidentifier., Class: 16, Number: 8169, State: 2
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
(3) Error for SharePoint Server Search
Could not access the Search database. A generic error occurred while trying to access the database to obtain the schema version info.
Context: Application 'cbc5a055-996b-44a7-9cbc-404322f9cfdf'
(4) Error for SharePoint Server
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (b7c72eb8-cbaf-435e-b4c9-963cb6e4e745).
Reason: The gatherer application could not be mounted because the search administration database schema version does not match the expected backwards compatibility schema version. The database might not have been upgraded.
(5) Error Shared Services for SharePoint Server Search
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (b7c72eb8-cbaf-435e-b4c9-963cb6e4e745).
Reason: The object you are trying to create already exists. Try again using a different name.
Technical Support Details:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040D02): The object you are trying to create already exists. Try again using a different name.
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob
Above errors keep being generated. Last step for SSA creation stay there forever. Any clue what is really going on? Thanks.

Network Drives Losing Connection from Server 2012 to Windows 7 64bit Machines

I have about 20 users at my facility and recently upgraded our server from one running server 2003 to one running server 2012. Since that occurred, I have had numerous issues that I did not encounter on the old server.
Lately, users have been losing connection to the shared network drives randomly and constantly. The drives will come back on-line on their own but it could be 2 minutes or 30 minutes before they do and when users are in the middle of working on a document
from the network, they are unable to save until the drive comes back. Manually disconnecting and re-mapping them works sometimes but then the problem will re-occur. I have tried re-doing the shares and security settings and run a couple of supposed hotfixes
on the client side and the server side to no avail.
Now our regional office is suggesting that I re-connect the old server and then rebuild the new one with server 2008 r2, something I would like to avoid if possible.
I feel like this is a simple setting that I am missing, no conditions have changed except for the new server.
The server is a Intel Xeon CPU E5-2609 2.40GHz with Server 2012 64 bit on it. All computers (except on on 32 bit) are running Windows 7 Enterprise edition 64 bit.
Please help.

I made this change to the registry on the server and am waiting to see if I have any more drops.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters
Value:
autodisconnect
Data
type : REG_DWORD
Value:
ffff (Hex)
There was a client side change suggested but I am missing that value for the client side change and others in the organization who don't have it are not experiencing this problem.

Server 2008 R2 with WSUS need to specify location for Feature install for Server 2012 and Windows 8

Having a problem where we need to add .net 3.5, amongst other things, in server 2012 and windows 8.1. We're using WSUS on server 2008 R2, so when I go to add roles or features, I'm not able to as it tries to use Windows Update but it's set to use WSUS.
I'm aware in server 2012 gpo's that you enable the policy 'specify settings for optional component installation and component repair' in Administrative Templates>System, however that setting is not available in Server 2008 R2.
I've downloaded the templates from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36991 but the setting is still not there.
Any suggestions on how to do this/allow feature install with Server 2008 R2?

Hi,
To upgrade the Administrative Templates, please run the downloaded msi file, then copy the needed admx files and adml files to the PolicyDefinitions folder.
For detailed information, please refer to the link below,
Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(v=WS.10).aspx
Best Regards.
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