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Exchange Server 2016 Public Preview

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Are you as excited as I am?? Just got notice that the public preview of E2016 is ready. I’m looking forward to playing with this in my lab environment.

Microsoft has announced the public release of Exchange Server 2016 Preview, available for download now.

Architectural Changes in Exchange Server 2016

The big change in the server roles architecture is the further consolidation of server roles into just two:

  • Mailbox server role
  • Edge Transport server role

The Mailbox server role consolidates both of the required Exchange Server 2013 roles (Mailbox and Client Access), and all of the required Exchange Server 2010 roles (Mailbox, Client Access, Hub Transport, and Unified Messaging) into a single server role.

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PSTs – Offline Storage… Can we get rid of these already?

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I came across a great article on this subject.  For years (being in the enterprise messaging field) I’ve run into this problem. No one wants to get rid of stuff and that’s understandable. However, there has got to be a better way to clean all this archived email mess.  This article not only explains the problem in better detail but also shares knowledge on WHAT to DO!

Brilliant!

Deep Sixing PST Files

A little over two years ago we wrote about removing PSTs from your organization and gave you a tool to assist you with that endeavor. .PST, Time to Walk the Plank. Since then, we’ve updated the tool with some new features and functionality. In this blog, we are going to give you:

More reasons to get rid of PST files.

What to do with the data in the PST files.

How to move the PST data to its new location.

Read more from the Exchange Team Blog…

Office 365 Migrations (Links)

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These are a few links I’ve used in working with migrating to Office 365:

  1. Migrate all mailboxes to Exchange Online with a cutover migration
  2. Migrate Legacy Public Folders to Exchange Online Exchange 2013 Help
  3. Office 365 Identity Management with DirSync without Exchange Server On-Premises
  4. Troubleshoot a hybrid deployment Exchange 2013 Help
  5. MessageOps – Exchange of O365 Welcome
  6. Mailboxes 25 MB

Exchange Links

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Below are a few links I’ve used in looking up Exchange topics:

  1. ExBPA-2013
  2. Free-Busy and E2003
  3. Configuring Exchange 2013 Edge Transport Server
  4. Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
  5. Exchange Server and Update Rollup Build Numbers
  6. Remove the Last Legacy Exchange Server
  7. TechNet Virtual Labs Exchange Server
  8. Tools for Exchange Server 2003-2007-2010 A Messaging – Unified Communication Portal
  9. Autodiscover.xml failed 0x800c8203