Exchange 2016

Question

Hi,

We have three Exchange server 2016 in our environment. We want to move our exchange servers to new data center with new IP addresses.

What would be the best practice to move exchange servers to new location.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @Zeeshan sidd ，

We want to move our exchange servers to new data center with new IP addresses

Is this new data center a new physical location or new AD site? Is the new location in the same domain as the original location?

If you would like to move it to a new physical location with new IP address, there may be no official document that mention it and we don't recommend this way.

In principle, it could work if you change the IP address only and set the IP,DNS and firewall to ensure the url of all services could be get. If you still would like to try it, please first export the data in server to avoid the data loss. Here is a similar case about exchange 2010, for your reference:Moved Exchange 2010 from Oklahoma City data center (in-house) to Tulsa data center (paid colocation facility).(Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)

But as I mentioned above, this is not an officially supported solution. As a suggestion, I think it would be safer to deploy an another exchange server in new location and move the data to the new server, or deploy the DAG with original server and new server to copy the data.

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