How to replace an old DC with a new one with out to much work

Without having to unjoin and rejoin all the clients to the new domain?
Basically my company has an old Server 2003 R2 standard and we are getting a new server machine with a 6 core E5 Xeon that will have Server 2012 R2 standard installed. I will be transferring all the data from the company share drive easily
and making it shareable on the new server. I just don't want to go over to each computer and unjoin them from the old domain and join them to the new domain on the new server, and have to setup their outlook, move their data in the user profile etc...
I want to keep the same domain name and users.

Probably your easiest option is to join the new 2012 R2 server to your existing domain, promote it to be a second domain controller, then once it's running as a DC move the FSMO roles from the old server to the new one (see
http://trunkofmemorie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/how-to-change-fsmo-roles-in-windows-2012.html for a step by step guide to the process) so the new server effectively is in charge, then when you're ready you can demote the old server before disjoining it
from the domain and retiring it.
See http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/57636-migrate-active-directory-from-server-2003-to-server-2012-r2 and
http://blogs.msmvps.com/mweber/2012/07/30/upgrading-an-active-directory-domain-from-windows-server-2003-or-windows-server-2003-r2-to-windows-server-2012/ and
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/04/02/step-by-step-active-directory-migration-from-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2012.aspx and full details of all the steps required, since there's a fair bit involved.

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