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Migration to new exchange server 2016 with sophos web proxy
HI, I currently have one of my customers who has an Exchange Server 2016 installed on Windows 2012 R2. Since support for Windows 2012 R2 ends at the end of the year, my customer wants to migrate Ex...
I've never done this so I can only guess that you build the server and configure it the same as the existing one and it's in Sophos that you make all the changes. Just be mindful of the virtual directory configuration (ie SSL offloading etc). You'll need PowerShell to get a lot of that information. I would question you putting in Server 2016 and Exchange 2016 where mainstream support has ended already for both of them. I'd go for the latest version of the OS and Exchange. There's not a lot of difference going Exchange Server 2019
Thanks for the reply.
My customer does not install Exchange 2019 because it requires 128 GB of RAM and would need to upgrade the entire VMware cluster.
it is true that mainstream support has ended but extended support lasts until October 2025 for the exchange and for windows 2016 it lasts until January 2027.
So both products will still receive security patches.
Also next year my customer will migrate to o365.
For the topic of migration with the reverse proxy I will try to set up a laboratory to simulate the migration.
Greetings