Elevating Server 2012 to take over for a SBS machine.

Greetings everyone
Are there any special considerations or steps that need be done when elevating my BDC running Server 2012 from a PDC running SBS 2008? We are wanting to remove the SBS machine entirely as we no longer need it and could possibly be of use to one of our clients
down the road.
Thank You
Additional Info: We have already migrated Exchange to the cloud and is no longer hosted on our SBS server. The only function the SBS server has at the moment is being the PDC.
Jerry T

Hi Jerry,
If we want to migrate SBS 2008 to Windows Server 2012 standard, the following blog can be referred to as reference.
Transition from Small Business Server to Standard Windows Server
http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks/archive/2012/09/07/transition-from-small-business-server-to-standard-windows-server.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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