

My initial plan was to use the storage migration service in Windows Admin Centre, but this doesn't support DC migration (or server cut over for DCs) or migrate the users and groups which is the primary goal, as I can probably manually export/import most other info for roles like DHCP, DNS etc. The domain is small with the Essentials server being the primary (and only) DC and a 2012 R2 as a RDS server being the only member server.

I assumed that this would be a popular migration given the popularity of the Essentials editions on small domains but I couldn't find any other submissions about it, so was hoping for some advice with this upcoming migration, mostly around the point of both source and destination servers being domain controllers (DC).
