Hi,
I'm preparing a migration from Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise) to Windows Server 2012 R2 and came across multiple regressions (removed features) while doing so.
Current situation: Active Directory Domain with 3 controllers. Each of them is a member node of a failover cluster with DHCP and print spooler services. With this configuration I have a HA environment with ADDS, DNS, DHCP and print spooler.
With Windows Server 2012 (R2) a failover node is NOT allowed to be a domain controller and print spooler is not supported as clustered resource any more. To re-create a similar HA level I would need now at least 4 Windows Server instances with 2 DCs and 2 cluster nodes for DHCP. The new DHCP failover feature seems to have issues with replication delays of configuration changes as well as with replication of reservations, therefore it is not an option. Along with these disadvantages I still do not have a solution for the print spooler.
Any comments?
Best regards,
Nikolaus