Migrate DHCP and printer workloads to Windows Server 2022.
The use case here would be something like this.
Your manager sends you a chat message or a phone
call or whatever it is and says,
it'd be great if you'd go ahead and migrate our old DHCP servers
to new hardware running Windows Server 2022,
mmkay?
That's a reference to the comedy movie Office Space.
In my opinion, if you really want to be an IT nerd, you need to know that movie.
Anyway, Windows Server Migration Tools, well,
thus far in this course we've worked, as I said a moment ago,
with Storage Migration Services.
This is going to help us migrate our file shares.
And actually,
we saw that we could use the Storage Migration Service to completely take
over the identity of down‑level Windows Server file servers.
We also saw that we can use Azure Migrate to bring over our
virtual machines from on‑premises into Azure again.
Here we're going to stay on‑prem, at least for the time being,
and look at how we can migrate individual workloads to presumably newer
hardware or newer VMs running Windows Server 2022.
What does Microsoft have to make it easier?
Well, Windows Server Migration Tools has been around for a while.
It's not a new toolset, although Microsoft has gradually been refactoring it,
moving away from the old,
compiled executable program files and moving instead to using PowerShell.
The migration tools are basically,
it comes down to a collection of PowerShell commands available as an in‑box
Windows Server feature that enables you to do these individual Windows Server
role and service migrations from one host to another.
You would install the Windows Server Migration Tools on any
fairly recent versions of Windows server,
like Windows Server 2016 on up, using, for example,
Install‑WindowsFeature migration.
Of course, you can use Server Manager to your heart's content,
but I want to get you thinking if you're not already
thinking of ways to use command‑line tools,
particularly PowerShell,
to stay current with your certification success and industry success.
In this slide,
I attempted to consolidate the built‑in supported workloads
that Windows Server Migration Tools support.
We've got migration of Active Directory,
we've got BranchCache,
we're concerned specifically with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol,
there's support for migrating Hyper‑V VMs,
there's failover clustering support, there's file services,
print services, IIS web services, there's Routing and Remote Access,
and Remote Desktop. There's quite a bit going on for sure.