It is an exciting new chapter today for the Exchange community. October 1st, 2015 marked the general availability of Exchange 2016.
Exchange 2016 is available to download here.
For all the new features and requirements I recommend checking out, What Ignite taught us about Exchange 2016.
It’s always recommended to deploy Exchange to your lab first for testing. Check out the 7-part series, Install Exchange 2016 in your lab.
You will also want to review all the new Exchange documentation on TechNet prior to deploying into your production environment.
You may also wish to take a peek at the Exchange Product Guide.
Videos on Exchange 2016
Office Mechanics has released a number of bite-sized videos under five minutes. Here are the ones I recommend.
Greg Taylor has an excellent video on architectural and performance improvements on Exchange 2016. Greg also announces that CU1 will be available early 2016 with additional features.
Rebecca Lawler demos the new modern attachment feature in Exchange. She describes two available deployment scenarios for Modern Attachments. Rebecca also demos side-by-side collaboration view.
Allen Flush demos all the new features included in Outlook on the Web (formerly Outlook Web App). I also recommend checking out the last part of our Exchange lab series where we explore Outlook on the Web.
Jason Henderson discusses the Search improvements in Exchange that benefit both Outlook and Outlook on the Web users. Jason also discusses improvements to Outlook add-ins.
I recommend checking out all the videos posted by the Exchange Team from Microsoft Ignite. In particular, I recommend checking out Ross Smith IV’s session on Exchange Server Preferred Architecture and Brian Day’s Deploying Exchange Server.
Articles on Exchange 2016
There is a ton of great content out there already. I recommend checking these out.
- What’s New and Cool in Exchange – It’s out now! — Jason Sherry
- Exchange Server: Forged in the cloud — Exchange Team Blog
- Exchange @ Ignite 2015 — Exchange Team Blog
- Exchange Server Architecture — Exchange Team Blog
- Exchange Server – Planning, Deployment & Migration — Paul Cunningham
- Exchange – What’s New? — Jaap Wesselius
- Exchange debuts to delight on-premises customers — Tony Redmond
- Exchange Server is available! Now what? — Dave Stork
How about you? What feature are you most excited to see? Perhaps you are disappointed to see a feature dropped. Let us know in the comments below.
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