What is new in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
Thanks for
liking my first article of this series, in second article of this series, I am
going to introduce you about the brand new features of Exchange Server 2016,
which were not available in previous versions.
Exchange
2016 have lots of new exciting features which helps IT administrator to make
more powerful, secure and highly available Exchange organization.
In this
article we will discuss about all the new features which was not available in
Exchange 2010 and as well Exchange 2013
New
Functionality/ features from Exchange 2010:
Exchange
Server 2016 have a number of new features which was not available in Exchange
Serve 2010, here is list of new features.
Exchange
Admin Center: Exchange 2016 provides a single unified management console that
allows for managing your on-premises, Office 365 and hybrid deployments. The Exchange admin center (EAC)
in Exchange 2016 replaces the Exchange 2010 Exchange Management Console (EMC)
and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), but still we have ECP as a virtual
directory which used by EAC.
Exchange Server 2016 Architecture: As we know Exchange Server 2010 have
5 different roles for different functionality, but in Exchange 2016 Microsoft
reduce the Server roles and now Microsoft include all the functionality in a
single server role (excluding Edge Server role).
- Mailbox
Service includes all the server components in Exchange Server 2010, like: MBX
Role, CAS Protocol, Transport Service, Mailbox databases and UM services.
- CAS
service provide all the authentication, limited redirection and proxy related
services. It also offer all client access protocol, like: HTTP, POP, IMAP and
SMTP.
Note: Edge is a separate role and
installed in DMZ zone, which is outside of your AD network, so you can use Edge
server role, if required for your organization or you can go any other Anti
spamming solution for your organization, like: EOP or any other third party
which suites with your organization requirements.
Managed
Store: In Exchange 2016, the Managed Store is
the name of the Information Store processes,
Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Service.exe and Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Worker.exe.
The new Managed Store is written in C# and tightly integrated with the
Microsoft Exchange Replication service (MSExchangeRepl.exe)
to provide higher availability through improved resiliency.
The Managed Store works with the Microsoft Exchange
Replication service to manage mailbox databases, which continues to use
Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) as the database engine. The Microsoft Exchange
Replication service is responsible for all service availability related to
Mailbox servers. This change enables faster database failover and better
physical disk failure handling.
Certificate
Management: Security
is a major concern in Exchange organization, to make secure communion we use
digital certificates which improve the security in Exchange organization. The
major enhancement in certificate management is, it was difficult to see when a digital certificate was nearing
expiration. In Exchange 2016, the Notifications center will display warnings
when a certificate stored on any Exchange 2016 server is about to expire.
Administrators can also choose to receive these notifications via email.
New look of
Installation Setup: Exchange 2016 Setup has been
completely rewritten so that during the installation of Exchange 2016, make
sure you've got the latest product rollups and security fixes is easier than
ever. Improved readiness check that your organization is ready to accept the
new Exchange 2016 in your organization or not.
Hybrid
Configuration of Office 365: The hybrid configuration wizard, which was included in
Exchange server 2013 itself have more enhancements, like: when you start hybrid
configuration wizard it ask you to download and install as a small app. It
provide you below new functionality:
·
The wizard can be updated quickly to support changes
in the Office 365 service.
·
The wizard can be updated to account for issues
detected when customers try to configure a hybrid deployment.
·
Improved troubleshooting and diagnostics to help you
resolve issues that you run into when running the wizard.
·
The same wizard will be used by everyone configuring
a hybrid deployment who's running Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016.
·
In addition to Hybrid Configuration Wizard
improvements, multi-forest hybrid deployments are being simplified with Azure
Active Directory Connect (AADConnect). AADConnect introduces management agents
that will make it significantly easier to synchronize multiple on-premises
Active Directory forests with a single Office 365 tenant.
Enhancement
in DLP Policy: Exchange
2016 provides a built-in DLP policies based on regulatory standards such as
personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card industry data
security standards (PCI), and is extensible to support other policies important
to your business. With a DLP policy in Exchange 2016, you can now identify,
monitor, and protect 80 different types of sensitive information
Enhancement
in Transport Rules: Exchange
2016 have some exciting enhancements in transport rules, which help IT
Administrators to protect transport role. For Example:
Condition: With the new
condition Any
attachment has these properties, including any of these words
Action: With the new action Notify the
recipient with a message or
The action Generate
incident report and send it to
So like this
we can use new transport rules.
Microsoft
RM (Right Management) Connector: The
Microsoft Rights Management connector (RMS connector) is an optional
application that helps you enhance data protection for your Exchange 2016
server by connecting to cloud-based Microsoft Rights Management services. Once
you install the RMS connector, it provides continuous data protection
throughout the life span of the information and because these services are
customizable, you can define the level of protection you need.
For example, you can limit email message access to
specific users or set view-only rights for certain messages.
Enhancement
in Auditing: Auditing is a feature which used by
organizations to monitor the users or have some compliance policy for auditing.
The EAC in Exchange Server 2016 includes a new
auditing functionality so that you can run reports or export entries from the
mailbox audit log and the administrator audit log. This can help you
troubleshoot configuration issues or identify the cause of problems related to
security or compliance.
New Mail
flow Architecture: Exchange
2016 have different architecture of mail flow compare then previous versions.
These are the new components of mail flow in Exchange Server 2016
- Transport pipeline: The transport pipeline in Exchange
2016 is now made up of several different services: the Front End Transport
service, the Transport service, and the Mailbox Transport service.
- Routing: Mail routing in Exchange 2016 recognizes DAG boundaries as
well as Active Directory site boundaries. Also, mail routing has been
improved to queue messages more directly for internal recipients.
- Connectors: The default maximum message size for a
Send connector or a Receive connector, as specified by theMaxMessageSize parameter,
has been increased from 10MB to 25MB. You can set a Send connector in the
Transport service of a Mailbox server to route outbound mail through a Front
End transport server in the local Active Directory site.
- Edge Transport: You can optionally install
an Edge Transport server in your perimeter network to reduce your attack
surface and provide message protection and security.
Enhancement in Recipients: Exchange Server 2016 have below new enhancement in
recipient section:
·
In Exchange Server 2016 now IT Administrators can use
the EAC to create a group naming policy,
which helps you manage the names of distribution groups created by users in
your organization.
·
You can also use the EAC to track delivery
information for email messages sent to or received by any user in your
organization. You just select a mailbox, and then search for messages sent to
or received by a different user.
Integration
with SharePoint and Skype for business: In Exchange 2016, you can also integrate the SharePoint and
Skype for business to enhance the Exchange functionality.
Outlook on
Web: Outlook Web
Access is replaced now with Outlook on Web, mean now you can access your emails
from any of the supported web browser, like: Microsoft Edge, IE, Chrome,
Mozilla and Safari.
Offline Outlook on Web: Internet
Explorer 11 and Windows Store apps using JavaScript support the Application
Cache API (or AppCache), as defined in the HTML5 specification, which allows
you to create offline web applications. AppCache enables webpages to cache (or
save) resources locally, including images, script libraries, style sheets, and
so on. In addition, AppCache allows URLs to be served from cached content using
standard Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) notation. The following is a list of
the browsers that support AppCache:
·
Microsoft Edge
·
Internet Explorer 11 or later versions
·
Google Chrome 44 or later versions
·
Firefox 39 or later versions
·
Safari 8 or later (only on OS X/iOS) versions
MAPI over
HTTP: In Exchange 2016 MAPI over HTTP is now the
default protocol which used by Outlook to communicate with Exchange Server.
MAPI over HTTP improves the reliability and stability of the Outlook and
Exchange connections by moving the transport layer to the industry-standard
HTTP model. This allows a higher level of visibility of transport errors and
enhanced recoverability.
Document
collaboration: Exchange
2016 will enable Outlook on the web users to link to and share documents stored
in OneDrive for Business in an on-premises SharePoint server instead of
attaching a file to the message.
Batch
mailboxes move: Exchange 2016 support batch mailbox move feature,
which mean now you can move multiple mailboxes in large batch files.
Enhancement
in High Availability and Site resiliency: Exchange 2016 uses DAGs and mailbox database copies, along with
other features such as single item recovery, retention policies, and lagged
database copies, to provide high availability, site resilience, and Exchange
native data protection.
New
Functionality/ features from Exchange 2013:
Exchange
Server 2016 is little bit similar to Exchange 2013 but again there is lots of
new features, which introduced in Exchange 2016.
Here is the
list of Exchange Server 2016.
Ø
Enhanced Exchange Server 2016 architecture
Ø
Outlook on Web
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MAPI over HTTP
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Document collaboration
Ø
Office 365 Hybrid enhancements
Ø
Enhancement in messaging policy and compliance
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