Installing Pre-Requisites for an Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox Serverįor an Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox server installation open an elevated (run as administrator) PowerShell console and run the following command to install the operating system roles and features. Installing Pre-Requisites for the Exchange Server 2016 Management Tools.Installing Pre-Requisites for an Exchange Server 2016 Edge Transport Server.

Installing Pre-Requisites for an Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox Server.The requirements for each installation type are different, so let’s look at each of them in turn. Note that installing the Edge Transport server role on Windows Server 2016 is not supported. Management Tools (for admin workstations or servers).Edge Transport server role (this is optional, and can’t co-exist with the Mailbox server role on the same Windows Server).Mailbox server role (this is the only mandatory server role).There are three possible installations of Exchange Server 2016 that you can perform: Note that a full server installation with GUI (referred to as Desktop Experience in Windows Server 2016) is required for Exchange Server 2016, it can’t be installed on a Core mode installation of Windows Server. For either version of Windows Server the Standard or Datacenter edition can be used to run Exchange Server 2016. Exchange itself does not rely on any specific features of either the Standard or Datacenter editions. Exchange 2016 CU3 or later can also be installed on Windows Server 2016. Exchange Server 2016 can be installed on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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