MIGRATE EXCHANGE SERVICES TO 2016 PART 1 -REQUIREMENTS

Exchange Migration to 2016

This document serves as both a guideline for redeployment document for the Exchange Migration performed at the GDM Company. The process described mainly focuses on a typical transition of Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 environment, converting the Exchange 2010 server to Exchange 2016 Server MBX role. Additional role options such as the Edge Transport role, are out-of-scope within this document.

Exchange 2016 System requirements

Coexistence of Exchange 2016 with earlier versions of Exchange Server

Network and directory server requirements for Exchange 2016

Supported operating systems for Exchange 2016

.NET Framework

Supported clients

• Outlook 2016
  
• Outlook 2013
  
• Outlook 2010 SP2 and updates KB2956191 and KB2965295
  
• Outlook for Mac for Office 365
  
• Outlook for Mac 2011
  

Exchange 2016 Mailbox Server Role Prerequisites

Follow steps to install prerequisites for Windows Server 2016

1. Login to Windows Server 2016 server.
2. Open Windows PowerShell as administrator
3. Run cmdlet as follow:

Install-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation, RSAT-ADDS

4. Download and Install .NET Framework 4.6.2

Note You can check for a minimum-required .NET Framework version by querying the registry in PowerShell (.NET Framework 4.5 and later). You can replace 394802 in the previous example with another value from the following table to check for a different minimum-required .NET Framework version. Version Minimum value of the Release DWORD .NET Framework 4.5 378389 .NET Framework 4.5.1 378675 .NET Framework 4.5.2 379893 .NET Framework 4.6 393295 .NET Framework 4.6.1 394254 .NET Framework 4.6.2 394802 .NET Framework 4.7 460798 .NET Framework 4.7.1 461308

To be continue……

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