#Start vm export dell rapid recovery powershell windows

Copy your completely patched and syprepped OS VHDX with Windows Server to the location for this VM.

Delete the file (you have a backup/export)

Edit the setting and remove the OS VHDX.

Remove the ADFS role via Server management

Make sure you have an ADFS configuration backup and also that you have a backup or an export (cool thing about VMs) of the VMs for rapid recovery if needed.

Make sure you have the Service Communications SSL cert for your AD FS and the domain or managed service account name and password.

For each of them make sure you have the server name and the IP configuration. A migration from AD FS 2.0 or 2.1 (Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012) requires the use of the Export-FederationConfiguration and Import FederationConfiguration as before. The FBL approach is only valid for a migration from Windows Server 2012 AD FS to Windows Server 2016 AD FS. You can do the same for an SQL based deployment. So in that respect this process is different from what is normally recommended.

This means the load balancer needed no configuration changes. In this migration we are preserving the node names and IP addresses. You will need to remove it from the farm and replace it with a new Windows Server 2016 ADFS node.

#Start vm export dell rapid recovery powershell upgrade

You cannot in place upgrade a Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS Farm node to Windows Server 2016. This results in the new Windows Server 2016 ADFS features being enabled and ready for configuration and use. When all Windows Server 2012 R2 nodes have been removed form the farm and all nodes are Windows Server 2016 you can raise the FBL level. As a result, the farm is in РІР‚Сљmixed modeРІР‚Сњ and operates the Windows Server 2012 R2 farm behavior level. These are not available.Р”Р„dministrators can add new, Windows Server 2016 federation servers to an existing Windows Server 2012 R2 farm. There is no need to move all the node to the same version immediately.Р”Р„s long as you are in mixed mode you donРІР‚в„ўt get the benefits of the new capabilities and features in Windows Server 2016 ADFS. The farm will continue operating at the Windows Server 2012 R2 FBL.

We can add a secondary Windows Server 2016 AD FS server to a Windows Server 2012 R2 farm. Instead, they can add Windows Server 2016 nodes to an existing farm while it is online and only incur the relatively brief downtime involved in the FBL raise.

looking to upgrade to Windows Server 2016 will not have to deploy an entirely new farm, export and import configuration data. The FBL feature and mixed mode now makes a РІР‚СљtrickРІР‚Сњ many used to upgrade a ADFS farm to AD FS Windows Server 2012 R2 organizations without the hassle of setting up a new farm and exporting / importing the configuration possible. Optimistically you can state that the FBL of a Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS farm is at the Windows Server 2012 R2 FBL. It determines the features that the AD FS farm can use. Farm Behavior Level Feature In Windows Server 2016 ADFS we now have a thing called the Farm Behavior Level (FBL) feature (FBL). By doing so there is no need for changes in the Kemp Technologies load balancer. For this exercise the people in charge wanted to maintain the server names and IP addresses. I recently went through the effort to migrate a Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS farm to a Windows Server 2016 AD FS farm.

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