Windows Server Replication

Setup:

• Windows Server 2012R2(R5-610-1)
• Windows Server 2016 (Master)
• Windows Server 2016 (Secondary)
• No Domain Controller (All servers are independent)
• Hyper-V version are different (Windows 2012 is Version 5.0, Windows 2016 is Version 8.0)
• VM's are both 1st and 2nd Generation.

Goal:

1. To migrate VM's running on Windows 2012R2 Server to Windows 2016 Server.
2. Remove old Windows 2012R2 Server.
3. Enable replication/failover between the two Windows 2016 Servers.

Issues:

• Most documentation refers to MakeCert which is deprecated and it is recommended to use New-SelfSignedCertificate

Migrating VM's from 2012R2 to 2016:
    1.   Open Powershell in Windows 2016, and create root certificate:

​PS> New-SelfSignedCertificate -Type "Custom" -KeyExportPolicy "Exportable" -Subject "CN=<<WINDOWS 2016 LOCALHOST SERVER NAME>>" -CertStoreLocation "Cert:\LocalMachine\My" -KeySpec "Signature" -KeyUsage "CertSign"
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