
Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Server 2016
Work smarter, anywhere, with business email on your own servers.
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Overview:
Get business email, calendar, and contacts delivered on your PC, phone, and browser. With a simplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery, achieve new levels of reliability and reduce complexity, while protecting sensitive and confidential information.
Always on
Exchange Server 2016 helps to ensure your communications are always available while you remain in control.
- The Exchange building block model simplifies deployments at all scales, standardizes high availability and client load balancing, and improves cross-version interoperability.
- Enjoy more uptime through faster failover times and support for multiple databases per volume.
- A built-in monitoring and managed availability solution provides self-healing features to automatically recover from failures.
- Simplified load-balancing options improve flexibility and scale even while reducing cost.
- Reduce storage costs by using larger, less expensive disks.
Secure and compliant
Get integrated functionality that eases regulatory compliance and reduces discovery cost.
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities prevent users from mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorised people, while informing them of internal compliance policies.
- Keep all your important data in one place by giving users an In-Place Archive with a native, well-integrated user experience.
- Run In-Place eDiscovery across Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync data from a single interface through the eDiscovery Center.*
- Mobile device policies let you create approved mobile device lists, enforce PIN lock, and remove confidential company data from lost phones.
Easy to deploy and maintain
Exchange Server 2016 offers flexible deployment options and helps decrease the amount of time spent managing your messaging systems.
- Simplify deployment with custom instructions for installing or upgrading to Exchange.
- Manage your organization efficiently with the Exchange Administration Center, an easy-to-use, web-based interface.
- Delegate permissions to specialist users based on job function, such as eDiscovery for compliance officers, without giving them access to the entire Exchange management interface.
- Move to the cloud on your terms with full deployment flexibility-whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid combination of the two.
*Running eDiscovery across Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint from the eDiscovery Center requires SharePoint Server 2016. The Exchange Administration Center in Exchange Server only provides eDiscovery capabilities for Exchange data.
Features:
Increase user productivity and keep your organization safe, while maintaining the control you need.
*Requires the latest versions of Exchange and SharePoint.
Comparing versions of Exchange Server:
The following table shows what's new or improved in Exchange Server 2016 compared to earlier versions.
Exchange Server 2007 | Exchange Server 2010 | Exchange Server 2016 | |
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Control | |||
Simplified administration: Use a single web-based interface with the Exchange Administration Center for all Exchange services, both on-premises and online. | Not included | Partial | Full |
Robust and flexible command-line tools: Reduce complexity by using PowerShell scripting. | Full | Full | Full |
Large low-cost mailboxes: Get support for larger mailboxes while deploying less expensive storage. | Partial | Full | Full |
Role-based administration: Use roles to control access and delegate tasks. | Not included | Full | Full |
Cloud on your terms: Deploy mailboxes on-premises, online, or a combination of both with a hybrid deployment. | Not included | Full | Full |
Managed availability: An integrated high-availability solution monitors and manages service availability end-to-end across all roles and services. | Not included | Partial | Full |
Productivity | |||
Mobile email: Access mobile email the way you want. | Full | Full | Full |
Outlook Web App: Get web-based email that supports access from smartphones, tablets, and browsers. | Partial | Partial | Full |
Touch-optimized: Get an email experience that is designed for either touch or mouse control. | Not included | Not included | Full |
Voicemail with a unified inbox: Check and triage voicemail more quickly with text preview. | Partial | Full | Full |
Manage inbox overload: Navigate email more easily with conversation view; avoid undelivered or misdirected email with MailTips; declutter email with inline compose and reply. | Not included | Partial | Full |
Support for apps: Easily write apps for Outlook and Outlook Web App with web technologies, and then control and deploy them from within Exchange. | Not included | Not included | Full |
SharePoint integration: Get access to project information from SharePoint and Exchange, all from within Outlook, using site mailboxes*. | Not included | Not included | Full |
Security | |||
Anti-spam and anti-malware protection: Multiple integration points protect your data and messages. | Full | Full | Full |
Protect business information: Keep data safe with alerts, message block, encryption, and Information Rights Management (IRM). | Partial | Full | Full |
Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Use built-in DLP rules to identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data and inform users about policy violations before emails are sent. | Not included | Not included | Full |
In-place archiving and retention: Automatically retain data based on policy or business requirements and store older content in an In-Place Archive, allowing you to remain compliant. | Partial | Full | Full |
Manage eDiscovery: Use a single interface* to search your Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, and Lync conversations. | Partial | Partial | Full |
Licensing Options:
Learn about your options for licensing Exchange Server 2016.
Server licenses
With this license type, a license must be assigned for each instance of the server software that is being run. There are two server editions:
- Standard: designed for the mailbox needs of small to midsize organizations. Also appropriate for non-mailbox roles in a larger Exchange deployment. This edition supports 1 to 5 mailbox databases.
- Enterprise: designed for larger organizations that may require a greater number of mailbox databases. This edition supports 1 to 100 mailbox databases. (To use 100 mailbox databases you must have installed Exchange Server 2016 RTM Cumulative Update 2.)
CALs
With this license type, a CAL is required for each user or device that accesses the server software. There are two types of CALs for Exchange, both of which work with either edition of the server:
- Standard: designed to help users be more productive from virtually any platform, browser, or mobile device, with new features in Exchange Server 2016 that help manage communications overload and lower helpdesk costs. To enable Standard CAL features for a user, the user must be licensed with the Standard CAL.
- Enterprise: designed to allow organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of meeting compliance requirements with new integrated archiving functionality and information protection capabilities, while also helping you cut costs by replacing legacy voice mail systems with Unified Messaging. The Enterprise CAL is sold as an add-on to the Standard CAL-to enable Enterprise CAL features, the user must be licensed with one Standard CAL plus one Enterprise CAL.
The following table provides a detailed feature breakdown for each CAL:
Feature | Standard CAL | Standard plus Enterprise CAL* |
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Email, calendar, contacts, and tasks | Yes | Yes |
Outlook Web App (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari support) | Yes | Yes |
Rich Outlook inbox experience, including enhanced conversation view and MailTips | Yes | Yes |
Apps for Outlook and Outlook Web App | Yes | Yes |
Site mailboxes** | Yes | Yes |
Role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities | Yes | Yes |
Federated calendar sharing | Yes | Yes |
Exchange ActiveSync mobile management policies | Standard | Advanced |
Journaling | Per database | Per user/distribution list |
Journal decryption | No | Yes |
Unified Messaging | No | Yes |
Retention policies | Default | Custom |
In-Place Archive** | No | Yes |
Multi-mailbox search | Yes | Yes |
In-Place Hold | No | Yes |
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)** | No | Yes |
Information protection and control (IPC): transport protection rules, Outlook protection rules, Information Rights Management (IRM) search | No | Yes |
* The Exchange Enterprise CAL is available in two variants: with and without Services. The Enterprise CAL with Services also includes Exchange Online Protection (anti-malware and anti-spam services), plus cloud DLP in Office 365. Note that if you buy either the Standard CAL or the Enterprise CAL without Services, you can also purchase Exchange Online Protection as a standalone plan. DLP services in Office 365 are not available as a standalone plan.
** These features have specific Outlook version requirements.