There were two possible approaches to conduct this server migration, an in-place upgrade and Swing Migration. The in-place upgrade approach is more error prone since it requires a two-step upgrade to 2019 from 2008 and we have to take application & driver incompatibles in consideration. Hence a Swing Migration Approach was opted, for a seamless migration which is also the recommended approach by Microsoft. Explore this case study to understand how we navigated the complexities of transitioning to an advanced server environment.
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