Migrate SBS 2008 to Server 2012 R2 Std

Thank you for your reply. The Setup is a 2012 HV with three VM's = DC, Exchange and Terminal Server. The Exchange will be 2010. It was decided to stay with Emails on the Server by the company director, we don't require office 365
I think the migration of 2008 to 2012 dc should be fine, but it was migrating the exchange 2007 to exchange 2010 that I was not sure about, my notes I have were actually for 2003 sbs's that were going to use office 365 so that's why I was enquiring after the email migration
thanks

Hello
We have a SBS 2008 Server that is going to be migrated to Server 2012 R2. The 2012 has two virtual machines - one for the new Domain and the other is for email exchange. We have instructions for migrating a SBS 2003 Server to 2012 Server that we were told was successful - can I apply these same steps to a SBS 2008 Server? IT involves promotion 2012 to DC, migrating AD (FSMO, scheme master global catalog) and migrate dhcp.
for the emails, is there a MS guide to migrating SBS 2008 mailboxes to the 2012 R2 email server?
Thanks
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If you haven't seen it already you'll probably want to check out
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Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-ServerEssentials-Deployment/Deploy
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ServerEssentials-Deployment
Date: 2/8/2015 10:34:21 PM
Event ID: 130
Task Category: None
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Keywords:
User: SNL\halo
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--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
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at Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.ServerEssentials.Plugin.RemotePSHelper.InvokeRoleConfigurationCommand(String command, IDictionary`2 parameters, Func`1 isCancellationRequested, Action`1 onProgress)
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-ServerEssentials-Deployment" Guid="{AD9FC988-EB6F-43AF-9429-7BCDB78A7663}" />
<EventID>130</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-02-09T03:34:21.429892000Z" />
<EventRecordID>180</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{E85BC2B0-4415-0000-D0C2-5BE81544D001}" />
<Execution ProcessID="3140" ThreadID="2628" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-ServerEssentials-Deployment/Deploy</Channel>
<Computer>Server2012.snl.local</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3716708206-3900771979-3496404321-1138" />
</System>
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Hi Kieran S,
As Robert mentioned, did you refer to any migration guide?
Migrate from Previous Versions to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server Essentials Experience
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Migration – Keys to Success
-->it simply stops with the error "Configuration Encountered Some Issues".
Please refer to Paul's suggestion and check if help you to solve this configuration issue. In addition, you can also refer to following KB.
The Post-Deployment Configuration task may fail after you install the Windows Server Essentials Experience role on Windows Server 2012 R2
If any update, please feel free to let us know.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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Those two links were very helpful! Way better than the one I was referencing. I ended up having to manually do a adprep /forestprep before the wizard would work. All is well now, thanks!

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