Exchanging Exchange

Grommunio is a completely open source and fully compatible drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange that uncouples your company from Microsoft’s cloud strategy and its severe security and data protection issues.

Markus Feilner

Microsoft’s Exchange Team published a blog post on August 8, 2024, about decommissioning Exchange Server 2016. Although the intention was definitely not to make people switch to an open source groupware, the announcement was enlightening: Exchange 2016 is approaching the end of extended support and will be out of support on October 14th, 2025. If you are using Exchange Server 2019, you will be able to in-place upgrade to the next version, Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE), so Exchange Server 2016 will need to be decommissioned at some point. If you plan to stay on-premises, we recommend moving to Exchange 2019 as soon as possible. [1] A long list of todos and caveats follows, including reboots after upgrade. No wonder Microsoft’s general strategy toward its cloud (Microsoft 365 and Azure) is worrying…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2024

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