With the release rhythm of SCCM and latest requirements on the OS and SQL side, sometimes, it’s inevitable to migrate to a newer operating system to remain under support and also gain new features as part of the latest SCCM Current Branch release. This product is a complete SCCM Migration Guide.

Over the years, we’ve done many migrations of all kinds, depending on the environment and needs. We created this complete SCCM Migration to a new operating system guide based on our knowledge and experience.

This guide is a refreshed version of our previous post about Side-by-Side Migration to new Hardware. It also includes answers and how-tos to the most commonly asked questions on side-by-side migration. Also included: all the details to achieve the migration to a new operating system by using the Backup and Restore strategy.

This guide aims to help SCCM administrator evaluate, plan, understand and achieve a migration to a newer operating system for the SCCM site server.

The guide will help you achieve these tasks:

• Compare both migration scenarios in detail
  • Backup and restore
  • Side-by-Side migration
• Achieve the migration by using the Backup and Restore strategy
• Achieve the migration by using the side-by-side strategy
• Follow up steps to get to the latest Current Branch build

This guide does not cover how to do In-place OS Upgrade for SCCM site server

This guide does not cover how to upgrade SQL

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