Hi All, I would appreciate your advice regarding my new Exchange 2013 server.
Our company IT department decided it was time for a new domain.
Our existing domain is 12 years old, has an incorrect suffix, and had many administrators that did who knows what to it.
We have an existing 2013 Std Exchange server with about 100 mailboxes, I will refer to as ExchangeA.
So last summer we built a new 2012 domain in a new forest and I built a new 2013 Std Exchange server.. I will refer to as ExchangeB.
The two exchange servers were then configured to relay and the test mailboxes on ExchangeB work just fine.
No regular user mailboxes have been migrated to ExchangeB yet.
Our domain migration got delayed and now ExchangeB tells me I have 17 days left in the trial.
So my questions are:
1) can I use the license from ExchangeA to activate ExchangeB, without breaking anything? (I suspect this is a no)
2) can I acquire a temporary license to extend my trial period another say 30 days?
3) what may be my other options outside of spending Christmas and New Years migrating mailboxes to ExchangeB and pulling the license over to this new server?
4) Boss is checking out how much an Exchange Std license would cost...if it is just a couple grand we may simply purchase another one
5) I can let the Exchange trial pass and rebuild the server from scratch.... I really dislike duplicating such efforts...especially when due to my own poor planning.
Many many thanks
Andy