Exchange Server 2016 Preview: Introduction
Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 – Preview: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48210
Exchange Server 2016 is expected to available in Q4 this year. As per information available on TechNet site. Below are the some new features in Exchange Server 2016.
- Exchange Server 2016 comes with TWO server roles only, Mailbox Server Role and Edge Server Role
- Exchange 2016 Mailbox Server includes all of the server components from the Exchange 2013 Client Access and Mailbox server roles.
- Edge Server Role deployed is DMZ.
- Exchange 2016 mailbox server role now allows you to proxy traffic from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 in addition to Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2013. This new flexibility gives you more control in how you move to Exchange 2016 without having to worry about deploying enough front-end capacity to service new Exchange 2016 servers.
- In Exchange 2016, when you run Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), you'll be prompted to download and install a small app and then run the wizard. Single installer will for the previous versions of Exchange, with a few new benefits:
- The wizard can be updated quickly to support changes in the Office 365 service.
- The wizard can be updated to account for issues detected when customers try to configure a hybrid deployment.
- Improved troubleshooting and diagnostics to help you resolve issues that you run into when running the wizard.
- The same wizard will be used by everyone configuring a hybrid deployment who's running Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016.
- Outlook Web App is now known as Outlook on the web, which continues to let users access their Exchange mailbox from almost any Web browser. Supported Web browsers for Outlook on the web in Exchange 2016 are Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, and the most recent versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.
- MAPI over HTTP is now the default protocol that Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. MAPI over HTTP improves the reliability and stability of the Outlook and Exchange connections by moving the transport layer to the industry-standard HTTP model.
- Note: MAPI over HTTP isn't enable in organizations where the following are true:
- You're installing Exchange 2016 in an organization that already has Exchange 2013 servers installed.
- MAPI over HTTP wasn't enabled in Exchange 2013.
- While MAPI over HTTP is now the default communication protocol between Outlook and Exchange, clients that don't support it will fall back to Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP).
- Exchange 2016 brings support the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) authentication model in Outlook clients on Windows, Android, and other platforms to support two-factor authentication.
- Exchange 2016 offers truly unlimited archiving with auto-expanding archives. When the size of the archive mailbox reaches the 100 GB quota, Exchange 2016 will automatically increase the size of the archive in 50 GB increments.
- In-place Archiving, retention, and eDiscovery: You can use it to search very large numbers of mailboxes in a single search. In fact, there's no limit on the number of mailboxes that can be searched in a single search, so you can search all mailboxes in your organization in one search.
There are also no limits on the number of searches that can run at the same time.
For In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange 2016, the limits are the same as in Exchange 2013: you can search up to 10,000 mailboxes in a single search and your organization can run a maximum of two In-Place eDiscovery searches at the same time.
- Public folder support for In-Place eDiscovery and In-Place Hold
- In Exchange 2016, Compliance Search is only available by using the Exchange Management Shell. For information about using the Compliance Search cmdlets, see the following topics:
- Get-ComplianceSearch
- New-ComplianceSearch
- Remove-ComplianceSearch
- Set-ComplianceSearch
- Start-ComplianceSearch
- Stop-ComplianceSearch