friends yesterday i have migrated from AD 2003 to 2012 R2 and all went well.. i have an Exchange 2010 in my production and i am not sure that if i have had to do something to exchange also for it to know that now we have New AD which is on 2012..??

something like prepareAD command...??Please advise.

after my initial migration of AD my second phase will be to migrate exchange 2010 to 2013.. any help here will be really appreciated.. and may be if the advice could be inline with my above query...

Thanks for the time and

Hi

Currently Windows 2012 R2 is not supported on domain controllers in domains where any version of Exchange is installed.   I guess there will be an update soon to rectify this.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/09/17/exchange-support-for-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

Steve

thanks for the info. Just want to understand this properly..

what the above link is saying that.. Exchange is not supported on 2012 R2... Any Exchange... and just to add to this .. any idea about what planned changed we are expecting for this to be supported and by when...

secondly what i did was migrated my old AD from 2003 to 2012 R2... dont think there is any issues with this..??? i have Exchange 2010 running in this setup and after your info above i will wait for the support/ solution to be out for 2012 R2...

Please advise on above.. is the above is correct... as for my unde

Hi,

I agree with steve. From the article that steve provided, we can know Windows Server 2012 R2 is not currently listed as supported Domain Controllers and not currently listed as a supported OS platform for Exchange.

There is no document about when Windows Server 2012 R2 will be listed as a supported OS platform for Exchange. And we are expecting to see an announcement.

Best regards,
Belinda

It's unlikely that you will have any problems with 2012 R2 domain controllers but it hasn't been confirmed as working. I am surprised that this aspect wasn't confirmed before the GA date though.

Steve