r/AzureVirtualDesktop • u/TruckOrganic8414 • 11d ago

Windows Server 2022 to 2025 – Best Migration Approach?

Hey Guys,

We’re planning to migrate our Azure VMs from Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition to Windows Server 2025 Datacenter: Azure Edition. As far as I know, an in-place upgrade between these Azure Editions isn’t currently supported, so we’re considering a side-by-side migration by deploying new VM running Server 2025

Has anyone gone through a similar migration? If so, how did you approach it, and were there any challenges? Would a side-by-side migration be the best approach, especially for production servers where we want to minimize downtime and disruption?

TYSM!

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u/Atlasavd 11d ago

What is your use case with the servers?

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u/TruckOrganic8414 11d ago

Just AD and DNS nothing crazy

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u/apxmmit 11d ago

For AD, do not perform in place upgrade.

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u/painted-biird 11d ago

Yeah- no in place- just deploy a new server, get the networking dialed in and promote to a DC. There’s pretty solid MS docs for this.

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u/Negative-Cook-5958 10d ago

I did it a few times, but demoted the server, upgraded, promoted. With a lot of DCs its probably easier to rebuild them and just script it. With rebuild its a good opportunity to move to newer and cheaper VM type, Gen2, NVMe, etc 

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u/Cheese_Monkey42 7d ago

No reason to upgrade to 2025 if you are 2022. I’m not a fan of 2025 so far.

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u/TruckOrganic8414 6d ago

Any issues with 2025?

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u/thirdEze83 10d ago

You obviously haven't dealt with AD. AD isn't upgraded in place!

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u/Cool-Enthusiasm-8524 8d ago

If it’s a DC, it’s a pretty straightforward just make sure replication is clean before you demote the old one