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Dean Suzuki Blog

Title: Coexistence of Exchange 2007/2010 with Exchange 2013

Created: 7/6/2013

Description:

Microsoft released the updates required to allow Exchange 2013 to be introduced into existing Exchange

2007 and Exchange 2010 environments. Before the release of these updates, customers who had

Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 couldn’t upgrade to Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 could only be

deployed in customers who didn’t have any prior version of Exchange. In this blog post, I walk-through

the updates required for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 to have Exchange 2013 introduced and then

walkthrough the deployment of Exchange 2013.

Note: Coexistence with Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2013 is not supported. If you have Exchange

2003, then you will need to upgrade first to Exchange 2007 or 2010 and then upgrade to Exchange 2013.

Disclaimer:

Contents of this blog and article represent the opinions of Dean Suzuki, and do not reflect the views of my employer. (C) 2012 Dean Suzuki, All Rights Reserved

Procedure:

Table of Contents 1 Cool Articles and Links .......................................................................................................................... 2

2 Exchange 2013 Coexisting with Exchange 2007 ................................................................................... 2

2.1 Installing the Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3................................................................. 3

3 Exchange 2013 Coexisting with Exchange 2010 ................................................................................... 4

3.1 Installing Exchange Server 2010 SP3 ............................................................................................. 5

3.2 Side Note: Tombstoned Domain Controller ................................................................................ 8

4 Installing Exchange 2013 CU1 ............................................................................................................... 9

4.1 Get Base OS Installed .................................................................................................................... 9

4.2 Install the Exchange Prerequisites .............................................................................................. 10

4.3 Prepare the Schema .................................................................................................................... 10

4.4 Run Prepare AD ........................................................................................................................... 12

4.5 Run All Domains .......................................................................................................................... 12

4.6 Run Exchange 2013 Setup ........................................................................................................... 12

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1 Cool Articles and Links

Exchange System Requirements

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/Library/aa996719 ; Exchange 2013 System Requirements

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj619301(v=exchg.150).aspx ; Exchange

virtualization requirements

Exchange Deployment and Upgrade Articles

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/jj657516 ; Exchange 2013 Deployment Assistant

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/Library/jj150522 ; What’s New in Outlook Web App

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj898581(v=exchg.150).aspx ; Upgrading to

Exchange 2013

Seminar Links

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/05/31/exchange-at-teched-north-america-

2013.aspx ; Exchange 2013 from TechEd 2013

Exchange Sizing Tools

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/05/14/released-exchange-2013-server-

role-requirements-calculator.aspx ; Exchange Role Requirements Calculator

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/04/30/released-processor-query-tool-v1-

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2 Exchange 2013 Coexisting with Exchange 2007 For Exchange 2013 to coexist with Exchange 2007, the following updates need to be applied:

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=36708 )

Exchange 2007 Rollup 10 for Service Pack 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=24111)

Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=38176)

For more information, refer the following Technet Article.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx

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2.1 Installing the Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3

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To confirm that the rollup has been applied, go to the “Add or Remove Programs” area and select “Show

Updates”

3 Exchange 2013 Coexisting with Exchange 2010 For Exchange 2013 to coexist with Exchange 2007, the following updates need to be applied:

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=36768)

Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=38176)

For more information, refer the following Technet Article.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx

3.1 Installing Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Download the Service Pack. Review the Release Notes!

Expand the Service Pack.

Install the Service Pack.

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Note the recommendation for the hotfix 2550886. Install KB2550886 hotfix

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3.2 Side Note: Tombstoned Domain Controller I encountered a problem in my lab with my second domain controller. I had been shutdown for a while

and it had gotten “tombstoned” out. Each machine in the domain needs to communicate with the

domain controller periodically. If the machine is down for an extended period of time (I believe 60

days), then that machine will not have a secure channel with the domain controller and its computer

account in the domain will be “tombstoned” out. This means that the other machines in the domain

won’t recognize that machine since it doesn’t have a valid computer account in the domain. I decided

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to remove the domain controller. To remove the domain controller, I used a tool called metadata

cleanup. See the following article for more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498

After removing the orphaned domain controller, I was able to get the update installed.

4 Installing Exchange 2013 CU1 After installing the prerequisites, I started building the server for Exchange 2013. To coexist with

Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010, you need to install the CU1 release of Exchange 2013.

Review the Exchange 2013 Prerequisites documentation at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/bb691354(v=exchg.150).aspx

4.1 Get Base OS Installed Exchange 2013 will run on either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. I decided to

deploy upon Windows 2012 server and built a Windows 2012 virtual machine.

Set the IP address of the machine

Join the machine to the domain

Patch the machine with any Windows Updates

Install the Remote admin tools

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o In Powershell, execute the following command Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS

Install Windows Prerequisites. This is taken from the Technet net article.

Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-

Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy,

RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-

Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-

Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth,

Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-

Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-

Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-

Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-

Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-

Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-

Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-

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4.2 Install the Exchange Prerequisites Exchange 2013 requires the following components be installed before installing Exchange 2013.

The above updates can be found at:

Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 Runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=34992)

Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs (http://www.microsoft.com/en-

us/download/details.aspx?id=17062)

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010 (KB2460041) 64-bit Edition

(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26604)

4.3 Prepare the Schema setup /PrepareSchema or setup /ps

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I got an error that the setup process detected an Exchange 2010 without Service Pack 3. This is

interesting that the Exchange 2013 Setup has a blocker and won’t install if it detects Exchange 2010

servers.

I determined that I forgot to upgrade an Exchange 2010 Edge server.

I reran the Exchange prepare schema.

Review the Exchange 2013 article, “Prepare Active Directory and Domains”

(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224(v=exchg.150).aspx)

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4.4 Run Prepare AD

4.5 Run All Domains

4.6 Run Exchange 2013 Setup

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