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Hi,<br />
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Looking to upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 within an infrastructure. Current system has a single Exchange 2007 box and an ISA box which also has mail marshal on it with twin nics one outside and one inside. Need to upgrade to Exchange 2013 as 2007 support now dropped with Outlook 2016.<br />
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Can we build a new machine and install Exchange 2013 on it and join this to the existing infrastructure with both versions of Exchange co-existing? Will the AD prep done by Exchange 2013 be ok on an AD that has already got Exchange 2007 prep on it? The Domain controllers are separate boxes so the Exchange 2007 box only has Exchange on it.<br />
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Are there any issues with trying to run two versions and migrate mailboxes from one to the other over time? Is there any helpful configuration options within Exchange to setup a secondary server to the 2007 master and how do you swap the secondary to a master after the migration is done?<br />
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Looking for some general advice and any helpful pointers in undertaking this type of migration.<br />
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Thank you
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Hi,

Looking to upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 within an infrastructure. Current system has a single Exchange 2007 box and an ISA box which also has mail marshal on it with twin nics one outside and one inside. Need to upgrade to Exchange 2013 as 2007 support now dropped with Outlook 2016.

Can we build a new machine and install Exchange 2013 on it and join this to the existing infrastructure with both versions of Exchange co-existing? Will the AD prep done by Exchange 2013 be ok on an AD that has already got Exchange 2007 prep on it? The Domain controllers are separate boxes so the Exchange 2007 box only has Exchange on it.

Are there any issues with trying to run two versions and migrate mailboxes from one to the other over time? Is there any helpful configuration options within Exchange to setup a secondary server to the 2007 master and how do you swap the secondary to a master after the migration is done?

Looking for some general advice and any helpful pointers in undertaking this type of migration.

Thank you

Exchange 2007 migration to 2013

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.