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Exchange 2016 - Basic Redundancy with 2 Servers?

Looking for advice on getting basic redundancy in Exchange 2016 using only 2 servers.  Is it possible to replicate all of the roles with just 2 servers.  Active/Active would be nice but manual fail over is fine if we can do it sub 15 minutes.

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-Hi, firstly this is not an easy task to accomplish, you need to know what you are doing, otherwise you could mess the settings of the exchange and possibly damage the Mailbox Databases. If you want to implement this I recommend you to listen to this article.

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/core-solutions-of-exchange-server-2013-jump-start-8250?l=HZEyVRKy_2204984382

That being said, this is what you need.

1- Domain controller "I recommend  to have two Domain, so of it something happen with the Primary you can have the secondary in place.
1- File share server/witness.
2- Exchange server, each server needs to have two NIC cards one for mapi and other one for replication.
-You need routing within the replication  
-DAG btw servers.
-And much more if I keep talking, this is really heavy stuff, even though I know a bit still giving me headaches.

Regards,
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