Upgrading our Windows 2008 R2 Std server to Windows 2012 R2 Std - Hyper-v

Actually, I'm not sure about the snapshots. They are not being used as backups and we may actually not have any.  I had just seen that it was something you were supposed to do when migrating so I added it as a step.

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