Introduce an “passive” Exchange 2013 in Exchange 2010 environment without user or administration impact.

Hi

We wish to introduce an Exchange 2013 server in our existing Exchange 2010 environment.
The Exchange 2013 server is only needed for migration purposes where we wish to leverage the new features of the migration-batch functionality.

Its important that the Exchange 2013 server will not have any visible impact on the Exchange 2010 environment, or take over any functionality, right now, since the customer wish to stay on 2010.

Can you guys come up with anything to be aware of?

  • Oblivious we disable the Autodiscover SCP for the Exchange 2013 server, so that the clients will not hit this server. Nor will we point any URLs to the Exchange 2013
  • I can see that a new Default Offline Address Book (Exch2013) is created and set as default when EX2013 is installed. We will change this back to the default EX2010.
  • The server will properly take part in the Shadow Redundancy feature, and is doesnt seem to be possible to exclude the server or avoid, unless disabling Shadow Reduncancy.

I can only come up with these 3 things that will have a "direct" impact on the environment, but any input will be highly appreciated!

BR,

Martin


February 16th, 2015 3:53am

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