To uninstall Exchange Server 2013, follow the below steps: If all services have been stopped and there are no problems, you can be confident that the old server is no longer required for any Exchange services as they have all been migrated to Exchange 2016. It is advised that you shut down all services one by one so that the server can be decommissioned. Uninstalling Exchange Server 2013īefore uninstalling Exchange 2013, ensure that all services running on the software have been stopped.

The next step will involve decommissioning Exchange Server 2013 – so if you have any applications that use Exchange 2013, they should be migrated to 2016 before this step. If you’ve configured your applications/devices to use a DNS name, such as smtp.then you can simply change the A record/CNAME record to resolve to Exchange Server 2016 server IP. To do this, you have to create the same receive connectors on Exchange 2016 that you have on Exchange 2013 and configure them with the same authentication settings, IP ranges, and permission groups.Īfter you have created the new receive connectors, modify the settings of your applications/devices so that they relay emails through Exchange Server 2016. Migrating email relaying receive connectors and other applications to Exchange 2016Īny devices and applications relaying emails through Exchange Server 2013 have to be migrated to the new Exchange Server 2016.

In this part of the blog, we are going to migrate email relaying receive connectors and other devices/applications to Exchange 2016 and uninstall the old Exchange Server.

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