Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Here is the second part of the migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The first part can be found here: Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Part 1 In this article, the public folders and the mailboxes are migrated. The migration of the public folders can only be done with downtime, so read first, then plan :-) ... Read more
Foreword Exchange 2016 has been available in its final version since 01.10. Many people will have skipped Exchange 2013 and are currently still using Exchange 2010, for those it is time to plan the migration to Exchange 2016. Exchange 2016 will be the last version to which you can migrate directly from Exchange 2010. This ... Read more
Two articles worth reading on Exchange 2016 coexistence in conjunction with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 have been published on the Exchange Team Blog. The four articles can be accessed via the following links: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/26/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-exchange-2010.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/28/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-exchange-2013.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/30/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2016-coexistence-environment-with-mixed-exchange-versions.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2015/10/22/exchange-2016-coexistence-with-kerberos-authentication.aspx The articles cover the topic of coexistence in great detail. I am currently working on an article on the migration from Exchange 2010 to ... Read more
Holger encountered a strange error during the installation of Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2. The following error message appears immediately after starting Setup.exe: This app cannot be run on your PC Please contact the software publisher to find a suitable version for your PC. Well, that would probably be Microsoft, ... Read more
Many people will now be running Exchange Server as virtual machines. There are a few things to consider so that Exchange 2016 also delivers optimum performance in a VM. I would like to briefly present the most important ones here: Exchange 2016 on VMware ESXi 5.5 vCPUs: The rule for virtual CPUs is: as much as necessary, as little as possible. This is where ... Read more
In part 1 and part 2 of this article series it became clear that the choice of file system can have an impact on performance. In the last test, I was able to improve performance with a little fine-tuning: The fine-tuning at this point related to the ESX configuration (HBA settings etc.), the ReFS and NTFS volumes have ... Read more
In the first part of this series of articles, I had already started to analyze the difference between ReFS and NTFS in connection with Exchange 2016. However, the test environment was not yet optimized, but now it looks a little different. As a reminder: a VM on vSphere 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2, 8 vCPUs (Xeon E5-2690v3), 32 GB ... Read more
Jetstress is excellent for testing the storage for Exchange. I used it to see how NTFS and ReFS perform in terms of speed. There is no official version of Jetstress for Exchange 2016 yet, but the Jetstress version for Exchange 2013 also works with Exchange 2016. You can download Jetstress here. Read more
The preview was first released on July 22, but today the final version is already available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49161 This means that Exchange 2016 and the new standard client Outlook 2016 are now available in the final version. Exchange 2016 is 1.68 GB in size, and is therefore a little slimmer than the preview with a good 1.69 ... Read more
I have decided to publish a new major release for the Exchange Reporter, which requires a few fundamental changes to the structure. In the future, Exchange Reporter will be available in several languages, or the language will be selectable. Exchange Reporter 3.0 should not only be multi-language capable, but also offer even more ... Read more
