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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
Work smarter, anywhere, with business email on your own servers.Exchange Server 2016 lets you accomplish more across phones, tablets, desktop, and the Web.
Exchange Server 2016 lets you accomplish more with rich Outlook experiences on phones, tablets, desktop, and the Web. Integration with Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business helps you experience collaboration better when receiving, editing, and sharing documents without ever having to leave Outlook. New search capabilities deliver faster performance and more accurate results. Inbox enhancements in Outlook 2016 and Outlook on the web, such as inline previews for URLs and inline video, help you stay focused and productive. A simplified architecture brings new levels of reliability with automated repair and faster recovery. Expanded data loss prevention, easier auditing, and faster and more reliable eDiscovery help your organization comply with legal requirements.
Exchange Server 2016 has just two server roles:
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Mailbox server role –
this role will consolidate the Mailbox and Client Access roles from Exchange
Server 2013. Compared to Exchange Server 2010 this role consolidates all of
the functions of the Client Access, Mailbox, Hub Transport, and Unified
Messaging server roles. The Mailbox server role in Exchange Server 2016 is
the only mandatory server role, and the consolidation reinforces the
recommended practice since Exchange Server 2010 to deploy Exchange as a
multi-role server instead of deploying individual roles to separate servers.
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Edge Transport server role –
this role will be much the same as Edge Transport in previous versions of
Exchange, designed to sit in perimeter networks and provide secure inbound
and outbound mail flow for the organization. Edge Transport servers are not
mandatory.
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Exchange Server 2016 licensing
Learn about your options for licensing Exchange Server
2016. For information about prerequisites for licenses,
see Exchange
Server 2016 Prerequisites.
Server licenses
With this license type, a license must be assigned for
each instance of the server software that is being run.
There are two server editions:
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Standard: designed
for the mailbox needs of small to midsize
organizations. Also appropriate for non-mailbox
roles in a larger Exchange deployment. This edition
supports 1 to 5 mailbox databases.
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Enterprise: designed
for larger organizations that may require a greater
number of mailbox databases. This edition supports 1
to 100 mailbox databases.
Client access licenses (CALs)
With this license type, a CAL is required for each user
or device that accesses the server software. There are
two types of CALs for Exchange, both of which work with
either edition of the server:
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Standard: designed
to help users be more productive from virtually any
platform, browser, or mobile device, with features
in Exchange Server 2016 that help your users be
productive no matter where they are—while helping
protect your organization's data. To enable
Standard CAL features for a user, the user must be
licensed with the Standard CAL.
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Enterprise: designed
to allow organizations to reduce the cost and
complexity of meeting compliance requirements with
new integrated archiving functionality and
information protection capabilities, while also
helping you cut costs by replacing legacy voice mail
systems with Unified Messaging. The Enterprise CAL
is sold as an add-on to the Standard CAL—to enable
Enterprise CAL features, the user must be licensed
with one Standard CAL plus one Enterprise CAL.
The following table provides a detailed feature
breakdown for each CAL
Feature
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Standard CAL |
Standard plus
Enterprise CAL |
Email, calendar, contacts, and tasks |
Yes |
Yes |
Outlook on the web (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari,
and Edge support) |
Yes |
Yes |
Apps for Outlook and Outlook on the web
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Yes |
Yes |
Site mailboxes |
Yes |
Yes |
Role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities |
Yes |
Yes |
Journaling |
Per database |
Per user/
distribution list
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Journal decryption |
No |
Yes |
Unified Messaging |
No |
Yes |
Retention policies |
Default and custom
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Default and custom |
In-Place Archive |
No |
Yes |
Multi-mailbox search |
Yes |
Yes |
In-Place Hold |
No |
Yes |
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) |
No |
Yes |
Information protection and control (IPC): transport protection
rules, Outlook protection rules, Information Rights Management (IRM)
search
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No |
Yes |
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System Requirements
Supported Operating System
Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Exchange Server 2016 System Requirements and
Prerequisites
For information about Exchange 2016 system
requirements and prerequisites, see the following
topics:
Actual requirements will vary based on system
configuration. For more detailed system
requirements, please refer to the Exchange Server
2016 Technical
Documentation Library.
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