Server Replacement - Migration Path?

Hello,
I currently have 2012 R2 deployed with the Essentials role installed and configured. The server it is deployed on is coming up on end of life, with a new server on its way. What are my options in terms of migrating from the old hardware to new? Any guidance
available on this? I think I see the following choices:
- Just move the hard drives to the new box and pray to the PnP gods
- Install new server in migration mode, deploy and reconfigure various features to suite
-- Would be resource intensive, and require a change to data paths (as it would be a new machine name)
- Stage a temporary swing server for identity data, promo down existing server and remove from environment, promo up new server
-- Install/reconfigure functionality as required
-- Could keep existing name/IP address
-- Restore from backup could be a tangent to this, though I'm not 100% on how well the restore would work.
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim

Hi Tim,
Based on your description, I understand that you want to migration from old server to the Windows Server 2012
R2 with the Windows Server Essentials Experience role installed. Please refer to the following TechNet article and check if it helps you.
Migrate from Previous Versions to Windows
Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server Essentials Experience
If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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