Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
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 eignet sich hervorragend um das Storage für Exchange zu testen. Ich habe es benutzt um mal zu schauen wie sich NTFS und ReFS in Sachen Geschwindigkeit verhalten. Noch gibt es keine offizielle Version von Jetstress für Exchange 2016. Allerdings läuft die Jetstress Version für Exchange 2013 auch mit Exchange 2016. Hier kann Jetstress runtergeladen … Read more
Am 22. Juli wurde erst die Preview veröffentlicht, heute gibt es bereits die finale Version zum Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49161 Somit liegt jetzt Exchange 2016 als auch der neue Standard Client Outlook 2016 in der finalen Version vor. Exchange 2016 ist 1,68 GB groß, und fällt damit ein wenig schlanker aus als die Preview mit gut 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
The configuration of an Exchange 2016 DAG is almost identical to the configuration of a DAG with Exchange 2013. In principle, it is even a little easier, because the question of whether the roles should be separated or whether all roles can be installed on one server no longer arises with Exchange 2016. There is now only the ... Read more
