Upgrade Server 2008 Enterprise Domain Controller to Server 2012 Standard?

Hey there,
We are going to be attempting to upgrade several of our Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers in our satellite offices from Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to Server 2012 Standard. I know the inplace upgrade will work (tried it on a member server)
but are there any caveats being that they are Domain Controllers? Contacted Microsoft and they said we shouldn't have any issues upgrading, and there is nothing special that has to be done in preparation. (I thought for sure we would have to DCPromo
down before and dcpromo up after the upgrade, but not so much, according to MS) But I figured I would check and see if anyone has done this successfully. I should mention that we already have 2, Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers in our environment,
and one of them has the FSMO roles. Thanks in advance!

It should work with no problems. My favorite options remains always to demote the DC, re-install it completely and then promoting it again: This is just my own way to work as it makes me sure that I start with a clean base with the fresh install.
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