Raneesh A
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Upgrade OS for Exchange Server to 2016
Dear Team,
We have number of VMS which are having old OS 2008 R2 and need to upgrade to 2016 standard.
Scenario 1:
I have 2 Exchange Servers (Version 2013) running on Windows 2008 R2 . The servers which is high available using DAG.
I want to upgrade only the Operating system to windows 2016 standard. So please recommend the best practice to upgrade the OS.
Is it possible if i run the windows 2016 setup on each server and upgrade ?
My setup is on VMware Satndard (HCI) version 6.7.
We have number of VMS which are having old OS 2008 R2 and need to upgrade to 2016 standard.
Scenario 1:
I have 2 Exchange Servers (Version 2013) running on Windows 2008 R2 . The servers which is high available using DAG.
I want to upgrade only the Operating system to windows 2016 standard. So please recommend the best practice to upgrade the OS.
Is it possible if i run the windows 2016 setup on each server and upgrade ?
My setup is on VMware Satndard (HCI) version 6.7.
ASKER
Thanks Lee.
If i want to upgrade to 2012 R2 how can i achieve this.
If i want to upgrade to 2012 R2 how can i achieve this.
I would never upgrade. Upgrading is a HORRIBLE idea. No upgrade can ever be as stable as a clean install. Add new servers. You're virtualized - this should be easy. You're asking a question of how to do something that no one I know of would ever do, so I don't think you're going to get reliable answers.
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See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/supportability-matrix?view=exchserver-2019