Migrate from Datacenter to Standard?

[nutcase]

Got a bit of a problem. Have been experimenting with server 2012 R2 for work (been using it at home for a while now). Was told that datacentre licences would be fine, but now it's been decided that standard licences will be sufficient.

What I've found from googling is that you can upgrade in place standard to datacentre but not the other way round. As I've got the server set up pretty much as they need to be in production, I'd rather keep the full config as is on the eval version but downgrade to standard on 2 VMs.

Is there a way I can migrate the settings across to a fresh install?

What needs to move is:

DC, DNS DHCP etc. on one and RDP server for the other (the rest I was going to start again on anyway).

Not sure how to go about this if it's possible?

thanks

 

[nutcase]

Best bet is to add another DC to the forest running server standard.... Allow it to replicate AD and DNS ( if DNS is AD INTERGRATED ) information from the data center DC.

Once you done the above, move all of the fsmo roles to the new DC, then decor the old DC

For DHCP..... You can use the netsh command line to export the settings, and then import them to your new server

Thanks - will give that a try on a replica to start with I think.

You might be able to use dism to mount the install and downgrade the version. As far as I know both standard and datacenter install all the same features and it's only really licensing that varys

First thing I tried - you can got the other way but not from datacentre to standard

 

[nutcase]

Well that went reasonably well - the original datacentre version of the DC is now shut down and everything seems to still be going ok.

Next up, the remote desktop server