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Keep the latest cumulative updates patched on your current Exchange version andĬonsider Exchange 2016 or Skype for Business 2015, which gives you plenty ofĮxtended support until 2025. If you have a plan to go to the cloud, just Probably a reason to be on the latest server version of Exchange or Skype for Recommends looking at your strategy, if you have no intent to be in the cloud, there’s

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Reading: How to Migrate Exchange to Office 365: Step by Step, by Steve Goodman Of the hardware requirements of Exchange 2019.

It’s the same for Exchange, Sigi has someĬustomers who have considered it, but most decided to use Exchange 2016 because

He also comments that the features set of Skype for Business 2019 aren’t that tremendous. Tom has a few customers who have Skype for Business 2019, but most are sticking with 2015 and they have a plan to go to the cloud. Also, if you should be, but you’re not in the cloud, you need to get your wallets out and pay to be where you are. They’re fairly unforgiving now about the specs and requirements and have basically said if you’re an enterprise, you can afford to stay on Exchange Server, if you’re not, then you should be in the cloud. Microsoft has essentially said, unless you have a very specific requirement, you should be in the cloud. So, unless you are an engaged customer, you won’t be able to use this. Microsoft has lined up the support dates as the same for Skype for Business 20, so buying the new version gives you some additional functionality based on CUs, but the extended support timeframe compared to 2015 will be the same.Īgreement with Microsoft in order to have access, so you can’t even buy it as a But there are no ‘killer’ new features either, from a recommendations point of view, it’s hard to justify when both have similar support dates going up to the latest version. Skype for Business is now up to 64GB for a server, so that’s doubled as it used to be 32GB. Recommended reading: How to Migrate Exchange to Office 365: Step by Step, by Steve Goodman What’s the story with Skype for Business? And as a result, they’re migrating to the cloud, and we know this because they’re in Exchange Hybrid. Requirements surrounding it, so the benefit isn’t really there.Ĭonsidering now, for example, most organisations we work with have a goal to save money on their IT investment and move on to the latest version. Quite a lot, if you plan to have four servers for a decent DAG for databaseĬopies for example, then you have four times more RAM and all the hardware So, the real question arises, does it make sense to go in 2019? You must also consider that a normal company, let’s say, 5-10,000 people, would require multiple servers to run a DAG (Data Availability Group). But also, the minimum RAM is 128GB, which is a lot.

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So, today we’re talking about whether you should go to the latestĮxchange 2019 currently requires a lot of hardware space, so not only do you need to use Windows Server 2019 because the 2016 version is not supported. Of time talking about the cloud in the market, but there’s still a server Microsoft MVP’s Sigi Jagott, a specialist in Exchange, and Tom Arbuthnot, a specialist in Skype for Business and Teams, discuss the 2019 versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server.

This article is a rough transcript of what was discussed in the above video with Sigi Jagott and Tom Arbuthnot.