Exchange 2016 system requirements

Exchange 2016 is about to be released, and the system requirements for Exchange 2016 are briefly organized, and the content is organized from the official website

1. Supported Coexistence Scenarios

The following table lists some scenarios that support Exchange 2016 coexistence with earlier versions of Exchange.

Exchange 2016 and previous versions of Exchange Server coexistence

Exchange version	Exchange Organization Coexistence
Exchange 2007 and earlier versions	Not supported
Exchange 2010	Supports Update Rollup 9 for Exchange version SP3 or later on all Exchange 2010 servers in your organization, including Edge Transport servers.
Exchange 2013	Support Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 or later on all Exchange 2013 servers in your organization, including Edge Transport servers.
Hybrid Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 organizations	The following minimum versions of Exchange are supported: Exchange SP3 Update Rollup 9 or later on all Exchange 2010 servers in your organization, including Edge Transport servers. On all Exchange 2013 servers in your organization Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 or later, including Edge Transport servers.

2 support for hybrid deployments with Office 365

3 Domain Controller system requirements must be Windows Server 2008 or later, the forest domain functional level must be in Windows Server 2008 or a higher level

4 cannot upgrade to a domain control role on a domain controller that is not allowed to install on Exchange 2016,exchange 2016

5 hardware does not support the Intel Itanium IA64 processor, must be supported X64 processor, memory recommended 8G minimum, if the demo environment recommended minimum not less than 4G, disk space is not less than 30G

6 the operating system on which Exchange 2016 is installed must be Windows Server 2012 or later

7 outlook for Exchange 2016 support, must be no less than Outlook 2010 (with patch KB2965295), can be a Mac type of Outlook, the official requirement is this, Actually need to test to know the effect (using Office 2007 or earlier user estimates is difficult to accept this requirement)

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Exchange 2016 system requirements