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    Hi,

    For the past couple of days I have been battling to install the Azure site recovery service on my windows server 2008 as part of migrating my infra to Azure, but all my efforts were in vain. I know that VM migration to azure is supported only from Server 2008R2 and above, but I would like to know whether  there are any possible workarounds? Any help or suggestion would be deeply appreciated.       

    INFRA

     VM OS : Windows Server 2008 SP2.                                                                                                                               Hyper-visor : Hyper-V 

    • Changed type Anand Sarath Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:47 AM getting no replies
    Thursday, May 24, 2018 5:56 AM

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    You won't be able to achieve this using ASR since the OS is not supported. A workaround is to prepare the VM and manually upload the VHD creating a new VM in Azure from that VHD. There is a number of tutorials out there describing this process. Technically it works, however, I would not do that since the VM will be in an unsupported state.

    Cheers,

    Doug

    Premier Field Engineer - Microsoft

    Tuesday, July 10, 2018 4:57 AM
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    Hi Doug,

    Thanks for your reply, this what I planned on doing want sure since the OS is no longer supported in Azure. 

    Tuesday, July 10, 2018 6:41 AM