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Rolling back from Exchange 2019
Hello everyone - bit of a long shot, but hoping someone can advise. TL;DR: Is it possible to introduce a Exchange 2016 in a 2013/2019 co-existence and move everything to that to bin off a trouble...
Hi Carlos_2023,
I'm afraid we didn't. We did have a ticket with MS that went back and forth trying various things, but nothing seemed to improve the situation, and no one was really able to put their finger on the root of the problem.
In the end, we migrated everyone to Exchange Online which has shown to be an improvement. After the fun and games with Exchange 2019, we've not touched it since - we've only used 2016 for on-prem, or in most cases migrate to Exchange Online as that seems to be the way things are heading at the moment anyway. We didn't try introducing a 2016 server in the end as we didn't want to complicate things even further.
Sorry I'm not much help with this - although it seems most people seem to run Exchange 2019 without these issues, I can sympathize with you - it is incredibly frustrating. Have you raised a ticket with MS support?
I'm afraid we didn't. We did have a ticket with MS that went back and forth trying various things, but nothing seemed to improve the situation, and no one was really able to put their finger on the root of the problem.
In the end, we migrated everyone to Exchange Online which has shown to be an improvement. After the fun and games with Exchange 2019, we've not touched it since - we've only used 2016 for on-prem, or in most cases migrate to Exchange Online as that seems to be the way things are heading at the moment anyway. We didn't try introducing a 2016 server in the end as we didn't want to complicate things even further.
Sorry I'm not much help with this - although it seems most people seem to run Exchange 2019 without these issues, I can sympathize with you - it is incredibly frustrating. Have you raised a ticket with MS support?
HidMov
Just curious.
Your post said that you migrated from Exchange 2013 to 2019 bypassing 2016. Is that correct ?
After 2019 was installed I'm also not clear as to whether you later installed an Exchange 2016 server or not?
Just curious.
Your post said that you migrated from Exchange 2013 to 2019 bypassing 2016. Is that correct ?
After 2019 was installed I'm also not clear as to whether you later installed an Exchange 2016 server or not?
HiSam_T
You are correct, we migrated directly from 2013 to 2019.
We did not introduce a 2016 server. We were considering it due to the problems we were having with the 2019 server, but it wasn't clear to us if it would add even more problems to the enviroment so we did not - if I recall, at the time we had conflicting information on if this scenario was supported and what impact it might have.