Growing Beyond 25 Users with Windows Server 2012 Essentials

This book is a standalone chapter that complements the book, An Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials. As the small business becomes more successful and employs more staff, you may invariably reach the 25 user limit in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. How can you extend the network environment so that you can add more staff to the Active Directory? This chapter details the steps that are needed in order to expand the network to a full Windows Server 2012 network without the 25 user limitation. This process is called an In-Place Transition from Windows Server 2012 Essentials to Windows Server 2012 Standard. It is also colloquially referred to as Transmog.