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Your Windows Server 2003 system will reach End of Support in less than a year. We want to make sure you have a plan in place. End of Support for Windows Server 2003 can have a dramatic impact on your business. It will mean no more updates or patches from Microsoft after July 14, 2015, which can result in a less stable and less secure infrastructure for your organization.

This could leave your systems vulnerable and could lead to compliance issues. If your organization processes Visa and MasterCard transactions, for example, you could have problems with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.

Any critical line-of-business systems on Windows Server 2003 [Windows Small Business Server 2003] are at risk.
Businesses store their most critical information on their servers (customer lists, source code, credit card information, medical records, and other private and proprietary information).

Microsoft issued 37 security updates last year for Windows Server 2003. Without these updates, companies are putting their critical data and applications at risk.
There is not direct in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Services and applications must be migrated to a new physical or virtual machine in order to migrate to Server 2012 R2. Proper time must be allocated for assessment, planning, migration, and testing.

Business should start the planning process to migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 on new hardware in order to take advantage of the latest enhancements in productivity and realize substantial cost savings.

Windows Server 2012 R2 is
  • Easier to manage due to the improved Essentials Dashboard and Server Manager and provides a set of wizards and other tools to perform basic backup and recovery tasks for the server it is installed on.
  • Provides productivity enhancements like remote access, client and server backup, and storage enhancements.
  • Saves time and money by including virtualization out-of-the-box allowing customer to take maximum advantage of their server hardware
  • Windows Server Backup role in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 has the following enhanced features:
  • Ability to back up and restore individual virtual machines from a Hyper-V host server.
  • Improvements to managing backup versions and backup retention.
  • Contact your Preferred Local IT Provider and request an assessment and request for Migration proposal, or
  • Build my own Migration Path. The migration process can be broken down into three main steps: discovery, assessment, and migration.
Discover
Determine which applications and workloads are running on Windows Server 2003 today.
**Offer customer access to "Download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit"
Assess
Categorize applications and workloads by type, importance and degree of complexity.
Migrate
Build your Migration Plan - do it yourself, collaborate with your Local IT Professional or use a Service.
**Download the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit: