Migrating branch office 2008 R2 file servers to 2012 R2 with DFSR complications

We have 1 head office File Server and 4 branch office Servers that replicate back to head office using DFSR. We would like to move to 2012 R2 to take advantage of the deduplication features etc. What's the best way to do this? Do we do
a re-install as per this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/09/10/replacing-dfsr-member-hardware-or-os-part-5-reinstall-and-upgrade.aspx
Leaving data disks untouched and simply attaching them again and then do the same for each branch office? We cannot afford to replicate the entire data set across the WAN links again.
Anyone had any experience doing this? Any advice appreciated.

Hi,
Do you want to migrate the branch office 2008 R2 file servers to new 2012 R2 servers or in-place update the severs?
If you in-place update the servers, you need to do a re-install as per the article mentioned. The entire data will be replicated again.
If you migrate the files servers to new servers, here is our suggestion to migrate DFS-R branch server.
1. Add a new branch server.
2. When initial synch is finished (event 4104 for every replicated folder).
3. And then wait for AD replication.
4. Then remove the old branch server as usually.
To prevent large network synchronization flow, pre-seed the data with backup program to copy the amount of information from older branch server to the new branch server, this should be lower the replication network flow during initial replication.
Get out and push! Getting the most out of DFSR pre-staging
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/02/12/get-out-and-push-getting-the-most-out-of-dfsr-pre-staging.aspx
How to use the Backup program to prestage data before DFSR synchronization in Windows Server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947726
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