Looking for some advice on how or if I should do this. I currently have an Exchange 2013 server functioning normally on a 2008R2 VM. I am wanting to get the jump on phasing out all my 2008R2 servers to 2012R2 or 2016.
I have experience installing Exchange 2013 on 2012R2 in my home environment and it runs very smoothly (In one of my IT Classes I was told that EXCH2013 was actually designed to run on 2012) Does anyone have experience running EXCH2013 on 2016 Server? Does it run well on that newer OS?
If I decide to install a new EXCH2013 server in my work environment, (on 2012R2 or 2016) Will I have to create a new database and migrate all the email boxes over (like when we upgraded from EXCH2010 to 2013) , or can I simply mount the old database in the new server?
I believe if I do this, the server will have to be treated like a completely new fresh installation and the server must actually have a different name as well.
Thank you