If you are still running Windows 2008 R2, then you can install Exchange 2016 Server on it but when migrating to Exchange Server 2019 you must take all the other factors in consideration before. You need to install an Exchange 2016 Server, migrate to it, decommission the Exchange 2010, install Exchange 2019 and then decommission the Exchange 2016. In this case you would need to make a hop installation to Exchange Server 2016 before migrating to Exchange Server 2019. What does this mean to us? This means that you cannot have an Exchange Server 2010 along with an Exchange Server 2019 on the same Active Directory.
With Exchange Server 2019 we have a problem with co-existence. Let’s go through the things to take in consideration and the requirements to have Exchange Server 2019 in your infrastructure but first let’s go through them one by one. Exchange 2019 has recently been released so the life time of the application is longer and with the claims of Microsoft, Exchange 2019 is their most reliable version ever. Why migrate to Exchange 2019? There are reasons why a company would keep a local mail server rather than going to cloud services such as Microsoft 365 which could be for security or regulation obligation like storing their business’s data locally. It also lets you export the mailboxes directly to a Live Exchange server in a few clicks. The software lets you extract all mailboxes from an Exchange database (EDB) file and save them in PST format. To save time and quickly migrate mailboxes to the new Exchange server, you can use an EDB to PST Converter tool, such as Stellar Converter for EDB. For this reason it’s always ideal to keep up with the supported versions and Microsoft recommendations is to go for the Exchange Server 2019.įor mailbox migration, you may manually export the mailboxes from Exchange database to PSTs and then import them to a new server. This doesn’t mean that your operating system or Exchange Server will stop working, but you won’t get any support from Microsoft and no more security and other updates to the system.
So, if you are running on a newer operating system like Windows Server 2012 R2 with Exchange 2010 you are safe till next October, but if you are still running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010, your operating system will be out of support in January and still be forced to migrate. Thou if you are still running the Exchange Server 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, you should note that the operating system’s end of support was not extended and will still end in January 2020. Taking in consideration the recent extension of the end of support from Microsoft on the Exchange Server 2010 from January 2020 to October 2020 makes it a little bit calm if you are still with the 2010 version.
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