Step by Step Journey to Migration Exchange 2010 sp3 to Exchange Server 2016 Part-III

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1 Step by Step Journey to Migration Exchange 2010 sp3 to Exchange Server 2016 Part-III Hussain Shakir LinkedIn: Twitter: Blog:

2 Table of Contents About Author... 3 LAB Summary... 4 VMs IP & Names... 4 Windows Server 2008 Properties... 5 Adding Server Roles Required for DC... 5 DC Promo Installation... 9 Configuring Revers Lookup Zone Launch NSLOOK to verify name resolution Summary of Part-II Exchange 2010 VM Properties Installing prerequisites of Exchange Preparing Active Directory for Exchange PowerShell Script for Bulk Users Bulk Mailbox Creation in Exchange Testing OWA Send/Receive Exchange 2010 Installation Completed Installation of Windows Server 2016 as Domain Adding Roles for Active Directory Nslookup Status Installing Rollup update 13 on Exchange 2010 SP Transferring of FSMO Roles from Domain2008 to Domain

3 About Author I am IT Consultant with over 13 years of extensive experience working with Microsoft Technologies AD, Exchange, O365, Windows Azure, PowerShell, Skype for Business, SQL, SharePoint and Microsoft public clouds, and providing solutions to different local & international Enterprise customers. I have been involved in Infrastructure Designing and Implementation, Virtualization, and Disaster Recovery. Extensive hands-on experience in Core Server Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Virtualization/ Management and Information Protection. Analysis and Support of Microsoft Windows Server based Client / Server network, AD, Messaging, Skype for Business, SQL Always ON, Virtualization and System Center Infrastructure Products. Shakir has various industry certifications: MCT, MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE: Messaging, MCPS, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure and also providing trainings on Microsoft Based Technologies.

4 LAB Summary I have setup this LAB on VMWare work station The whole lab is running on ThinkPad W541 with 32 GB of RAM and Intel(R) i7-4930mx 3.00 GHZ, with 1 TB SSD Samsung. VMs IP & Names Sr. No VM Name IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway DNS 1 DC Exchange DC Exchange I am going to start the migration process from scratch because I don t have pre-setup for this migration so I will start the lab from building a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, on the same OS I will install Exchange Server 2010 SP3. In the second part of the Guide I will further install Domain Controller on Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition, on the same OS I will install Exchange Server You can simply follow the steps for both who have already running this environment or for those who wanted to setup the same environment before doing migration on actual site. Let s have a look on first Domain Controller properties and start building Domain on Windows Server Note: - I am using very less memory on each VM because I am using SSD drive in my Laptop which has high IOPS (Input/output operations per second.

5 Windows Server 2008 Properties Adding Server Roles Required for DC

6 Select Active Directory Domain Services A popup windows will appear for adding required features.

7 Click Next to continue Click on Install

8 Installation Progress After Successful Installation Click Close

9 DC Promo Installation From Run Type Dcpromo & Hit Enter A Small Windows popup for Checking AD Services

10 Select Advance option and Click on Next to continue Click on Next and Continue

11 Click on Create a new domain in a new forest and Click on Next You can see the progress windows for verifying NetBIOS name

12 Click Next with default NetBIOS name Select Forest Functional Level as per your environment

13 Select DNS Server option and Click on Next

14 Click YES to continue Click Next with default options Provide password for AD restoration

15 Read the configurations and Click on Next

16 Progress windows of active directory installation wizard Active Direction installation is successfully done at this point, server will take a reboot and give you logon screen with domain name.

17 Logon to your Domain with administrative credentials From Administrative Tools, you can see the Active Directory components are installed

18 Correct your Preferred DNS Server Configuring Revers Lookup Zone Right click on Reverse Lookup Zone and click on New zone

19 Click Next to continue Click Next with default options selected

20 Select the option as per your environment Select IPv4 for Revers Lookup Zone

21 Provide your Network ID Select first option and click on Next

22 Click Finish Click on New Pointer (PTR)

23 Click Browse to select A record Select A record of your DC

24 Click OK Launch NSLOOK to verify name resolution

25 DNS Results with NSLOOKUP As you can see the results of DNS is OK. Name resolution is successfully from name to IP and IP to name. Let's start preparing & installing Exchange Server 2010 SP3 in Part-II of this series. Step by Step Journey to Migration Exchange 2010 sp3 to Exchange Server 2016 Part-II

26 Summary of Part-II I will continue from Part-I of migration, in first part we have just configured domain environment for installation of Exchange 2010 SP3, in this part we will install all prerequisites of Exchange 2010 SP3 and itself Exchange 2010 setup. VMs related configuration will remain same as described in part-i of our migration guide. I will join the 2 nd VM with Domain 2008 and login with Domain Admin credentials to perform all tasks for the installation of Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3. Exchange 2010 VM Properties I am using very less amount of memory in lab environment and joined the VM to the existing domain controller which on Windows Server 2008.

27 Network IP Setting for Exchange 2010 VM As you can see I am using preffered DNS as first Domain Controller. Installing prerequisites of Exchange 2010 Install Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0

28 Accept the Agreement and Clikc on Next You will see the successful message screen Click to continue On the Start Menu, navigate to All Programs, then Accessories, then Windows PowerShell. Open an elevated Windows PowerShell console, and run the following command:

29 Import-Module ServerManager Use the Add-WindowsFeature cmdlet to install the necessary operating system components: a. For a server that will have the typical installation of Client Access, Hub Transport, and the Mailbox role: Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic- Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt- Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest- Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart This will install all required features for Exchange 2010 installation. On servers that will have the Client Access Server role installed, after the system has restarted. Log on as an administrator, open an elevated Windows PowerShell console, and configure the Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service for Automatic startup by running the following command: Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType Automatic

30 After installing RSAT-ADDS tool, restart the server. Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2010 Open Command Prompt. Type following command to prepare active directory for installing Exchange Server. Mount Exchange 2010 SP3 DVD/ISO image into your VM. D:\>setup /prepareschema The second step is to prepare Active Directory for Exchange installation. Type your organization name in Organization Name switch. Hit the following command in command prompt.

31 D:\> setup /preparead /OrganizationName:MSTECHGuru Now to prepare this domain for Exchange server installation, hit the following commands in command prompt.

32 D:\> setup /PrepareDomain Now, we will install typical Exchange server that includes, Hub Transport, Client Access and Mailbox. These roles are typical if you are installing only one Exchange server for small environment. Before stating the installation of Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 don t forget to give a reboot to your VM.

33 Exchange 2010 SP3 Installation Now, we will install typical Exchange server that includes, Hub Transport, Client Access and Mailbox. These roles are typical if you are installing only one Exchange server for small environment. Because this is the Lab environment so we will use all roles in one server. Mount your Exchange 2010 SP3 DVD into your Exchange VM and double click on it or get inside and click on Setup file. Click on Install Microsoft Exchange

34 Click Next Click on Next

35 Click Next Select Automatically install option & Click Next

36 Select No and Click Next to continue You can put the domain name as per your environment & Clieck Next

37 Select I don t want to join & Click Next Click Finish & check Finalize this installation using the Exchange Management console

38 Exchange Installation Completed Successfully Give a reboot to your system. Bulk User Creation in Active Directory At this point we have successfully installed Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3. Now we will move for the next step. What we will do in the next step: - Bulk user s creation in Active Directory of Windows Server 2008 with Script. Bulk mailbox creation in Exchange 2010 PowerShell Access Exchange 2010 OWA and check send/receive with different users. Let's create some test Users in AD and their respective mailboxes in Exchange. I am going to use a CSV file to create bulk users in Active Directory and we will use one PowerShell script to execute this CSV file. You can put necessary entries in CSV file. URL to download the script files.

39 PowerShell Script for Bulk Users You can copy this code into a notepad & save it as.ps1 file. ########################################################### Import-Module ActiveDirectory $path = Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $newpath = $path + "\import_users.csv" # Define variables $log = $path + "\created_activedirectory_users.log" $date = Get-Date $i = 0 Function createactivedirectoryusers { "Created the following Active Directory users (on " + $date + "): " Out-File $log - append " " Out-File $log -append Import-CSV $newpath ForEach-Object { $samaccount = $_.SamAccountName Try { $exists = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(samaccountname=$samaccount)" }

40 Catch { } If(!$exists) { $i++ # Set all variables according to the table names in the Excel # sheet / import CSV. The names can differ in every project, but # if the names change, make sure to change it below as well. $setpass = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $_.Password -force New-ADUser -Name $_.DisplayName -SamAccountName $_.SamAccountName - GivenName $_.GivenName -Initials $_.Initials ` -Surname $_.SN -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -Office $_.OfficeName ` -Description $_.Description - Address $_. ` -StreetAddress $_.StreetAddress -City $_.L ` -PostalCode $_.PostalCode -Country $_.CO -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN ` -Company $_.Company -Department $_.Department -EmployeeID $_.ID ` -OfficePhone $_.Phone -AccountPassword $setpass -Enabled $true -Path $_.OU $output = $i.tostring() + ") Name: " + $_.CN + " samaccountname: " $output += $sam + " Pass: " + $_.Password $output Out-File $log -append } Else { "SKIPPED - USER ALREADY EXISTS OR ERROR: " + $_.CN Out-File $log - append } } " " + "`n" Out-File $log -append } # Run function createactivedirectoryusers #End Script Copy both file in C:\ of your DC and go to PowerShell to execute.ps1 file.

41 CSV file and PS1 file status C drive of your DC and run.\bulk_create_users.ps1 Now let's go to Active Directory Users and Computer to see newly created users. Here we have successfully created 13 users in Active Directory. Let' s Go to Exchange 2010 SP3 to create mailboxes for these 13 users.

42 Bulk Mailbox Creation in Exchange 2010 I am using here PowerShell to create bulk mailboxes from this OU. Get-User -OrganizationalUnit "OU=MigrationUsers,DC=mstechguru,DC=Com" Enabl box -Database "Users4Migration" I have created one Database named Users4Migraiton so that we can create mailboxes into this database. Let's see the results

43 We have successfully created mailboxes from Active Directory Users. Let's test one user from OWA mail send/receive to other users. Testing OWA Send/Receive You can see I access Exchange 2010 SP3 with Server Name from OWA and login with User1 we created above in AD & Exchange. User1 is logged in from OWA and send one test to all other users. Let's check test mail on another user.

44 Exchange 2010 Installation Completed We have successfully received from User1. Till here we have completed our Migration Lab part I, and part II we will add one additional domain controller of Windows Server 2016 Data Center Edition and also Add one Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 in the same AD domain so that we can start our migration from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange In next lab which is Part-III, I will also do migration FSMO roles from Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller to new Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Domain Controller so that I can later demote Windows 2008 Domain with Exchange This is time to add Windows Server 2016 Additional Domain Controller LAB Part-III

45 Installation of Windows Server 2016 as Domain Windows Server 2016 properties for additional domain controller. IP Addressing of ADC 2016

46 Here is our Domain Controller running Windows Server 2008 R2 You can check name resolution and ping to your 2008 DC. Adding Roles for Active Directory Go to Server manager and install ADDS roles, Click Add roles and features

47 Click Next to continue Click Next

48 Click Next Click Next to continue

49 Select Active Directory Domain Services and Click Next Click Next to continue

50 Click Next Click Next

51 Click Close and give a reboot to your VM Domain2016 Installation After reboot in Server Manager click on Promote this server to a domain controller Click on first option click on select and provide administrative credentails, your domain name will appear select it and click on OK

52 Click Next to continue Select first two option, provide password & Click Next

53 Click Next

54 DC2008 will automatically be selected Click Next Click Next with default options

55 Click Next Review the configuration & Click Next

56 Click Install to begin the Domain2016 installation After installation system will automatically restart, after restart you will see the logon screen

57 DNS Setting Status at Domain2016 You can check the DNS status inside of Domain2016 everything is replicated from Domain2008. Active Directory Status You can see that all user s and other setting are replicated from Domain2008 to Domain 2016

58 Nslookup Status You need to check the Nslookup status for name resolution between Domain2008 to Domain2016 with names & IPs. Installing Rollup update 13 on Exchange 2010 SP3 Check the current status of Exchange 2010 version Get-ExchangeServer Format-List Name, Edition, AdminDisplayVersion The current installed version is 14.3

59 Download Rollup update from Start installing the setup Click Continue

60 Accept Agreement & Click Next Click Next

61 Installation status of Rollup 13

62 Click Finish Give a restart to your Exchange 2010 Server. Transferring of FSMO Roles from Domain2008 to Domain2016 At this point we have added Domain2016 with Domain2008 environment, now we will go for the migration of FSMO roles from Windows Active Directory Domain 2008 to Windows Active Directory Domain Let's check current status of FSMO roles. I have already added ADC of Windows Server 2016 in Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain environment.

63 Let's logon to Windows Server 2016 ADC and check FSMO and domain mode Current domain and forest functional level of the domain is windows server 2008 R2 So, let s start with the migrate process Let s check the current status & association of FSMO roles with which Domain Controller. 1. Click Start, click Run, type dsa.msc, and then click OK. 2. Right-click the selected Domain Object in the top left pane, and then click Operations Masters. 3. Click the PDC tab to view the server holding the PDC master role. 4. Click the Infrastructure tab to view the server holding the Infrastructure master role.

64 5. Click the RID Pool tab to view the server holding the RID master role.

65 In our example, the Windows Server 2008 R2 AD server holds all 5 FSMO roles. To transfer FSMO toles, execute the following command on Windows Server 2016 ADC PowerShell Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity DC OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster, DomainNamingMaster, PDCEmulator, RIDMaster, InfrastructureMaster

66 Now let's verify that roles are transferred

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68 Let's check Schema Master role Go to the PowerShell of Windows Server 2016 DC and type the following command Type regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll, and then click OK. A message should be displayed stating that the registration was successful

69 On the Console menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in Select Active Directory Schema and Add Click OK

70 Right click on Active Directory snap & click on operation master You can see that schema master role also transferred to Domain2016. Give a restart to your Server 2016 Domain Controller We have successfully transfer FSMO roles from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller.

71 This is time to install Exchange 2016 into this environment At this point we have updated Exchange 2010 SP3 to Rollup 13 and also migrate FSMO roles from windows 2008 domain controller to windows 2016 domain controller. In the last part of our lab we will Install Exchange 2016 in our environment and do some test mailboxes migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 in co-existence model.