Current state of exchange on prem overview, updates and futures

14 September 2016

OGD ICT Services

Dave Stork

Current State of Exchange On-Prem

Overview, Updates and Futures

2016

Dave Stork

Solution Architect at OGD ICT services

I am an MCT and and Office Server and Services MVP

I tweet from @dmstork

I blog at https://dirteam.com/dave

I am also one of the Contributors of The UC Architects Podcast @theucarchitects / www.theucarchitects.com

Email me [email protected]

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Current state of Exchange On-prem

Short term

Long term

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Current State of Exchange On-Prem

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HEREWhat are the current versions?

• Exchange Server 2003 – No longer supported (April 2014)

• Exchange Server 2007 – Extended support until April 2017

• Exchange Server 2010 – Extended support until January 2020

• Exchange Server 2013 – Mainstream until April 2018, Extended April 2023

• Exchange Server 2016 – Mainstream until October 2020, Extended Oct. 2025

Extended support = only security fixes. No compatibility fixes or new features.

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HEREExchange and Exchange Online?

• Exchange 2010 (v14) released in January 2010

• Office 365 “Wave14” released in June 2011

• Exchange 2013 (v15) released in December 2012

• Office 365 “Wave 15” released in late 2012 / early 2013

• Exchange 2016 released in October 2015

• Office 365 “Wave 16” gradually late summer/fall 2015

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HEREWhat’s in O365 and not in Exchange?

• Clutter or Focused Inbox

• Seamless integration with other products

• Office 365 Groups

• Exchange Online Protection (EOP) & add-on Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

• DKIM inbound check and outbound signing

• Message Encryption

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Short term

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HEREWhat to expect with Exchange 2013?

• Exchange 2013 is almost 4 years old

• Limited new revolutionary features

• Depends on back portability from Exchange Online which is based on Exchange 2016

• Probably no support for Windows Server 2016

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HEREWhat to expect with Exchange 2016?

• Announced/publicly disclosed features but currently not present:

• Windows Server 2016 support

• Content Index (search) built from Passive Copy instead of copied from Active Copy

• Some Outlook on the web (OWA) user interface features

• @mentions?

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HEREWhat NOT to expect with Exchange 2016?

• Features that require cloud computing to be (cost) effective

• Highly integration with other services

• Features that look like they are integrated in Exchange (Admin Center) but are actually O365

Portal functionality

• Reporting

• Auto-Expanding Archives?

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Long term

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HEREWWMD?

• It’s clear that the cloud is the focus for Exchange.

• Exchange Online is the basis for Exchange on-premises, but with disabled components.

• As long as on-premises Exchange generates enough revenue it is reasonable to expect it will

have an on-premises version.

• But with what caveats? The cloud is the focus, feature first. When will it become no longer

attractive to “fork”?

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What Will Microsoft Do?

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HEREWWMD?

• Will there be another major release; Exchange 2019, 2022 etc.?

• Next version (if there is one) will probably be updated more like Windows 10.

• More in tune with how Exchange Online already is being developed.

• Actually, Exchange Server 2016 already is being updated like this.

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What Will Microsoft Do?

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HEREWWMD?

• When will we know?

• Difficult to say, everything has changed so we can’t use behavior from the past.

• But up until now there has been a major build every three years.

• Maybe we know more at GWAVACon 2017?

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What Will Microsoft Do?

Questions?

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Dave Stork

OGD ICT ServicesSolution Architect

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