Migrate Domain Controller include Exchange Server

Beside the above suggestions, you may also walk through this informative technet article that covers almost all the required steps and provides step-wise instructions to accomplish this task in simple way : http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrisavis/archive/2013/10/01/performing-an-in-place-upgrade-of-server-200... When you will be migrating users mailboxes from old server to upgraded server, you can have a look on Lepide exchange manager that would be a suitable approach to get this job done in flawless manner without having downtime.

Hi everybody !
My company bought a new server and I have schedule to migrate current domain controller ( 2008 R2 ) to new server ( 2012 R2 )
My system has 1 Exchange server which I'm not familiar with. I have experience with migrating DC ( transfer roles / DNS ) but I'm worry about Exchange server. What should I prepare for this case ? 
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