Upgrade Paths To System Center 2012 R2

Already I got many questions about the upgrade paths to System Center 2012 R2. Since I want to be sure I share correct information on my blog, I contacted Microsoft and double checked it. Soon I got the answers, so here it goes. (Thank you Travis ).

This is the upgrade path to any System Center 2012 R2 component:
System Center 2012 RTM > System Center 2012 SP1 > System Center 2012 R2.

As you can see, you need to upgrade to every major version, there are NO shortcuts here.

Translated to System Center 2012 – Operations Manager R2 (SCOM 2012 R2 / OM12 R2) this is the upgrade path:
SCOM 2012 RTM > SCOM 2012 SP1 > SCOM 2012 R2.

And when you’re running SCOM 2007 R2 and want to upgrade to SCOM 2012 R2, this is the upgrade path:
SCOM 2007 R2 > SCOM 2012 RTM > SCOM 2012 SP1 > SCOM 2012 R2.