In this article series we will explain and go through all the steps to migrate from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013.
The series consists of four Parts:
Exchange is always considered as a mission critical service; accordingly and to assure a smooth upgrade process without any interruption to mail services, you have to spend some time on planning your deployment and upgrade. A good start can be through the below links:
Exchange 2013 TechEd Sessions and Labs which includes session about Exchange 2013 high availability, virtualization, managed availability, retention, site mailboxes, modern public folders, transport, unified messaging, Outlook Web App, EWS, and the most important one in case you will be doing a migration is Exchange Server 2013 On-Premises Upgrade and Coexistence
Sizing Exchange 2013 Deployments by the Exchange Team Blog
Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
In my Lab I have Exchange 2007 server holding CAS/HUB/MBX roles with a few users on it, published to the internet using TMG (with no pre-authentication), TMG acting as my SMTP GW as well, our goal in these series of posts to deploy a single Exchange 2013 server with all server roles on it, migrate all users and services to the new server, and finally decommission our legacy server.
From a domain joined machine in the same AD domain, & Site of your Schema master (in my case I have single forest single domain and single AD site); with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows Management Framework 3.0 installed, open PowerShell and run the following commands:
Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS
.\setup /PrepareAD /OrganizationName: contoso /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
To Validate your AD preparation open your Schema partition using ADSI and make sure that ms-Exch-Schema-Version-Pt is showing the correct value as shown below:
Open you Active Directory Users and Computers console, you should be able to see the below groups created:
For more validation steps, and information about AD preparation requirements visit this link.
Force AD replication and make sure its successful, then let us move to the next steps.
To Install OS prerequisites on Windows Server 2012 open PowerShell and run the following command:
Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation
After restart install the below components in the same order:
In case you have a different scenario (such as separate MBX & CAS roles) follow the steps in this link.
To install MBX/CAS server (in my case I will change the first DB name and directory; this is optional) open PowerShell and run the following command:
.\setup /m:Install /Roles:ca,mb,mt /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /InstallWindowsComponents /DBFilePath:"C:\DB01\DB01.edb" /LogFolderPath:"C:\DB01\Logs" /MdbName:"DB01"
You can follow the steps in the below links for different scenarios, or in case you prefer to use the Exchange Setup Wizard:
Install Exchange 2013 Using Unattended Mode
Install Exchange 2013 Using the Setup Wizard
After you complete installation successful let us move to the next steps through part 2 of this series.
Hi Mohammad, congrats, quite simply!
Shouldn't you note the potential for a full OAB download here and the optional configurations that could prevent said download from happening?
Might also be a good idea to cover the automatic things that will happen once the first Exchange 2013 server is installed such as the effect on Autodiscover, etc.
Very Nice, Thank You!
Fantastic post. After trying multiple such documents online, this was the first one that I was able to get to work. Thank you VERY much.
Oddly enough, I don't see "Mobile Devices" under "Phone and Voice Features" in my Exchange Admin Center when I click on a mailbox. I do see this on my Office365 mailboxes when I login to exchange online. Any thoughts?
alan at jefric.com
Follow up to my 28 Sep post - the "Mobile Devices" magically appeared in the EAC 24 hours after the final mailbox migrations.
Again, thanks VERY much Mohammad!
Quick question i setup exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 server, and seem to have issues telnet to smart host address. example would be telnet smtp.mandrillapp.com 587. Have any of you experienced such an issue? No firewalls are enabled on anything, and dont seem to experience this on WIndows 2008
Hi,
This is for on-premises upgrade, right? What if I set-up an exchange 2013 on a remote server and then need to migrate mail boxes from a 2007 server? How do I migrate mail boxes?
@Cyril please clarify what to you mean by remote ?
@Jedi please refer back to the below link for how to test exchange 2013 using telnet
technet.microsoft.com/.../bb123686(v=exchg.150).aspx
Does "/OrganizationName" still have to be used during the AD preparation, eventhough Exchange2013 is to be installed into the existing Exchange2007 Organisation.
Wouldn't the AD preparation process just updates the present Exchange-Schema if the flag is not used.
I beleive I do not have to create a new Organisation just for Exch2013.
repair the this step
if you are installing exchange to organisation with existing exchange configuration you should use
.\setup /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
You fail to mention this is for Server 2012. For example, this won't work on earlier versions: Install-WindowsFeature
you mention "published to the internet using TMG". What is TMG?
@bonoslav thanks for the comment I updated the command accordingly
Can I move a 2007 mailbox to a 2013 mailbox with the users still logged into their mailbox? Thanks