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Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 migration

I have a customer with a single exchange 2010 server and want to make a single exchange 2016 server. I'm assuming I can just setup the second server just like with exchange 2010 and move the mailboxes? I have already setup another server with 2012 R2 and replicated all the info over. I'm in the process of installing exchange 2016 and it warned me that you will not be able to add any 2013 servers after addprep runs , and want to make sure before proceeding that it won't hurt my current exchange 2010 server?

Thanks for the help , Paul

Ajit Singh

Before you install Exchange 2016, we recommend that you review this topic to ensure that your network, hardware, software, clients, and other elements meet the requirements for Exchange 2016: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.160).aspx

After you’ve prepared a Windows Server with the Exchange Server 2016 pre-requisites you can proceed with the installation of Exchange Server itself, refer to below links to get in detailed:

http://exchangeserverpro.com/installing-exchange-server-2016/

http://exchangeserverpro.com/installing-exchange-server-2016-into-an-existing-organization/

Also get help from this article which lets you how to move mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 using Exchange Admin Center: http://mstechtalk.com/migrating-to-exchange-2016-using-the-exchange-admin-center/

Hope this helps!

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I've already got he hardware, and clients updated. My question is just about will installing exchange 2016 break the existing 2010 server. Can they co-exist on the same domain, and can I simply move mailboxes once it's online. I've done this with 2 exchange 2010 servers before, and want to know if I can do this same procedure with exchange 2010 and exchange 2016

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Thank you

Ankit K

Hi,

We have recently installed and configured exchange 2016 servers in an existing 2010 environment. We are in the process of migration from Exchange 2010 to 2016.

We have updated all the URLs on our old exchange 2010 servers and given it a common name. We have configured exchange 2016 servers with the same URLs.
Exchange 2016 acts as a proxy for 2010.

We migrated few mailboxes to 2016 for testing. We are experiencing issues with employees whose mailbox is on Exchange 2016 and are using outlook 2010. It takes too long to connect to the exchange server and freezes at times.
On checking the connection status, we see it is trying to connect to the exchange 2010 server-

server name: old URL name of exchange 2010 server-
protocol: RPC/TCP
status: connecting
type: public folder

We checked the public folder, it is empty.

This issue is only with outlook 2010. Outlook 2013 and 2016 works fine.

Is this because of incompatibility of outlook 2010 with exchange 2016 or we missed some configuration?

Can you please share your thoughts on this.

Thanks.