WSUS Mixed Environment (2012 & 2008 R2)

Hi,
We're looking to deploy WSUS in an enterprise environment with a central datacentre (which also hosts the internet connection), and around 20 remote sites. The plan is to have the upstream WSUS on a virtual 2012 R2 server at the datacentre, and remote WSUS
servers (running in replica mode) at each site.
Although we have 2012 R2 host servers at the datacentre, we don't (as yet) have them at each of the remote sites (they're still on 2008 R2). My question is... is it possible to have a WSUS 2012 R2 upstream server with WSUS 2008 R2 (WSUS 3.2?) servers as
replicas? I understand that I will need to change the port used between the upstream and replica, but is there any compatibility issues with this approach?
Thanks
Tony

Hi Tony,
We can use the WSUS 3.0 SP2 as the downstream server.
When we configure the upstream of the WSUS 3.0 SP2 server, we need specify the port used by the upstream sever. Here is the screenshot of my lab server.
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