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Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) Expertise:
Design, Installation, Management
Introduction to Microsoft Exchange SE
Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE), originally branded Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, is an on-premises version of Exchange that supports hybrid deployments with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. A headline enhancement is support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Core, which minimizes the target size exposed to a cybersecurity attack and eliminates unneeded services that waste network resources. Improvements over Exchange Server 2016 include enhanced data protection, greater throughput and expandability, and a variety of useful Exchange client benefits.
The Mailbox and Edge Transport services plus admin utilities for Microsoft Exchange Server SE need Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard or Datacenter. Exchange Server 2019 does not include the Unified Messaging (UM) role, and therefore does not offer voicemail or auto attendant services. If you are upgrading from Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and have implemented Unified Messaging services, Microsoft advises that you subscribe to the Cloud Voicemail Service offered in Microsoft 365. Skype for Business 2019 and Teams utilize this voice messaging service for Microsoft Exchange SE mailboxes. Generally, moving to Exchange SE can demand a serious update project.
Progent's Microsoft experts can help your organization with any phase of your upgrade to Exchange SE from Exchange Server 2016, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, or from other end-of-support (EOS) releases of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent can provide remote and on-premises guidance for solution design; implementing hybrid deployment models; building test lab environments; incorporating fault-tolerant techniques including hardware load balancing (HLB) and database availability groups (DAGs); checking licensing compliance; setting up host servers based on Microsoft Windows Server 2019; setting up Windows Hyper-V virtualization; upgrading your voicemail system; and quantifying disk storage demands for virtual machines, databases and logs. Progent's Exchange Server SE consultants are available to deliver as-needed assistance to help your business resolve an urgent technical issue or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management or co-management services to ensure your Microsoft Exchange SE upgrade is carried out on time and within budget.
Exchange Server SE Architecture
Microsoft Exchange SE is engineered on the streamlined model introduced by Microsoft Exchange Server 2016. This architecture consolidates transport services, mailbox databases, and user access services in the Mailbox server. This dramatically simplifies upgrades, deployment, expansion, management, and debugging compared to older versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. The optional Edge Transport Server role comes with filtering agents that allow your perimeter network to manage Internet-facing mail traffic and protect against information leaks, spam and viruses.
Exchange SE Mailbox and Edge Transport servers and management utilities need Standard or Datacenter version of Windows Server 2019. To manage these servers from a Windows client you need an up-to-date 64-bit release of Windows. (Exchange Server 2016 can be hosted by Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and administered using Windows 8.1 or later.) Progent offers remote or onsite Windows Server 2019 configuration expertise, Windows 11 planning and upgrade consulting, and Windows 10 deployment expertise to assist you to modernize your Exchange solution.
Security and Speed Enhancements in Exchange Server SE
Exchange SE is tuned for being hosted on Windows Server Core, which provides the most secure deployment for Microsoft Exchange SE. You can also run Exchange SE on Windows Server 2019 with Desktop Experience, although this option exposes a bigger attack service for malware attacks. Out of the box, Exchange Server SE utilizes TLS 1.2 transport protocol and replaces outdated ciphers. Several standards bodies require the use of TLS 1.2. Another security improvement is the ability in Microsoft Exchange SE to prevent outside users from accessing the Exchange admin center console and the management shell. This allows you to make sure that the administration of Exchange SE can occur only from within the security perimeter of your system.
For improved performance and scale, Microsoft Exchange Server SE can utilize as many as 48 processor cores (as opposed to 24 with Exchange 2016) and 256GB of RAM memory (vs. 192GB with Exchange Server 2016). Suggested minimum in-box memory has been increased to 128GB. The proven cloud search infrastructure used by Microsoft Exchange Online has been brought to Microsoft Exchange Server SE for improved search performance and more rapid database failovers, allow bigger files for indexing, and streamline management. Microsoft Exchange SE also works with bigger disk drives. To offset the increased latency characteristic of high-capacity spinning disk drives, the new MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) technology of Exchange Server SE enables you to configure solid state disk caching when you deploy Database Availability Groups (DAGs). Powered by technology developed for cloud-hosted Microsoft Exchange Online, MetaCacheDatabase can dramatically improve the quality of the end user environment. Throughput is further increased by improvements in Exchange Server SE algorithms that allow more RAM for caching live database copies. These improvements in Exchange Server SE make it practical to scale each server to accommodate more users, deploy larger disk drives, and improve the performance of common end-user operations.
Enhancements for Exchange Server SE Clients
Exchange SE supports Microsoft Outlook 2013, 2016 and 2019. Improvements to the client interface include the Do-Not-Forward feature that enables only a conference's organizer to invite additional attendees. Out-of-Office features have also increased. In addition, a Remove-CalendarEvents cmdlet enables administrators to remove events organized by a worker who no longer works for the business.
Cloud Voicemail for Exchange Server SE
Exchange SE does not provide the Unified Messaging (UM) services offered in prior versions of Microsoft Exchange. Unified Messaging services include voicemail and auto attendant. Skype for Business 2019 relies on Cloud Voicemail Service for voice messaging functions for Exchange Server SE mailboxes. (Skype for Business 2019 still supports Exchange UM services for Exchange 2013 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2016.) Microsoft recommends that organizations moving to Exchange Server SE adopt Skype for Business Server 2019 and integrate Cloud Voicemail Service. Exchange SE and Skype for Business 2019 can be deployed in a hybrid environment with a combination of Exchange Server SE and Exchange Online mailboxes so that both on-premises SE clients and Exchange Online cloud clients have complete access to advanced voice messaging services.
This hybrid voice messaging solution offers voicemail answering and deposit; voice-to-text and text-to-voice services; voice mail access via Outlook or Skype for Business; voicemail administration via the Microsoft 365 portal; and hybrid deployment support for Exchange mailboxes self-hosted or in the cloud. Administration is simplified because of a single collection of management tools for both Microsoft Exchange Server SE and Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes. Progent can help your business to follow best practices to configure a hybrid topology that allows all your Exchange users to access the Microsoft Cloud Voicemail service.
How Progent Can Assist You to Deploy and Manage Exchange SE
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 is at end of life. Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 are all unsupported legacy products. Exchange Server SE, Windows 2019, Microsoft Skype for Business 2019, and SharePoint Server 2019 have all been enhanced with Microsoft's proven cloud environment and optimized for hybrid network models. Under these circumstances, it is prudent to consider updating your email and groupware infrastructure. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your organization to assess the strategic benefits and integration challenges associated with moving to Exchange and other modern solutions; determine whether an onsite, cloud, or hybrid architecture makes sense for your business; plan and record a deployment strategy that makes effective use of your current assets; and perform out an upgrade from your current Microsoft Exchange environment to a current email ecosystem based on Microsoft Exchange Server SE.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help organizations of any size to adhere to best practices for designing and implementing an efficient migration to Microsoft Exchange Server SE from Exchange 2016, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2007, or Exchange 2003. Progent offers a wide range of remote and onsite services such as process planning review; network topology documentation; configuring Microsoft Windows Server Core to run Exchange Server SE; integrating Skype for Business 2019 and Cloud Voicemail Service; diagramming the schema, domain, and forest for Exchange SE; defining and configuring DAGs and hardware load balancing for high availability (HA) and fast recovery; implementing DirSync; optimizing firewalls, creating SSL certs and troubleshooting SSL problems; setting up IIS; creating PowerShell scripts; and verifying mail flow.
Progent's certified Windows Server consultants, Microsoft Skype for Business experts, SharePoint 2019 solution design experts and Microsoft 365 integration consultants can help you to build advanced, cohesive email solutions powered by Exchange SE. To support mobile devices with Exchange SE, Progent can provide iPhone and iPad expertise and Android smartphone and tablet expertise. Progent's load balancing experts are experienced in implementing and debugging cost-effective solutions from leading vendors like Barracuda, Cisco, NetScaler, Coyote Point/Fortinet, and NGINX.
Progent's disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) planning experts can assist you to design, implement and validate a disaster recovery/business continuity strategy for Microsoft Exchange Server SE that uses multiple geo-dispersed data centers or a mix of physical and cloud-based resources. Progent's CISM and CRISC certified cybersecurity experts can design and configure email security policies that adhere to industry standards and government mandates. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified infrastructure engineers can assist your organization to design, implement and debug an affordable, protected, and resilient network infrastructure for your Exchange SE environment. Progent has more than two decades of experience supporting Microsoft's Exchange products and can ensure that you follow leading practices as you move through the key stages of Exchange migration including Exchange version coexistence, proof of concept, mailbox migration, technology retirement, debugging, training, and tuning.
Microsoft 365 Integration with Local Exchange
Microsoft supports seamless hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 and local installations of Exchange. This permits you to have specific mailboxes hosted at your on-premises datacenter or private cloud and other mailboxes hosted by Microsoft 365. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange consultants can assist your organization with any phase of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed expertise to help you through stubborn technical problems and also offer extensive project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on time and on budget. To find out more about Progent's consulting services for integrating Microsoft 365 and on-premises Exchange systems, see Microsoft 365 integration solutions with local Exchange.
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