Hold on: Don’t deploy Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows 2016 for now

Exchange 2016 CU3 released back in Sept 2016, which gave us ability (in supported way) to install Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016. Recently various reports to Microsoft Support Channel that it’s having problem with IIS host process and W3WP.exe is crashing more often.

Microsoft Windows engineering team has acknowledged this in their release notes:

“If you attempt to run Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016, you will experience errors in the IIS host process W3WP.exe. There is no workaround at this time. You should postpone deployment of Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016 until a supported fix is available.”

So until further notice and Microsoft Windows team fix the backend issue (which could be sooner as their priority is to have stable environment for their customers) don’t deploy it on Windows Servers 2016, rather deploy it on Windows Server 2012 R2 as it’s supported for years now.

Exchange Powershell Tip #13

Exchange Powershell Tip #13
How do I see values of all the parameters from the Exchange Cmdlet? (Powershell Please show me everything out of that cmdlet )

Exchange Powershell Tip #12

Exchange Powershell Tip #12
How do I export specific messages from the Transport Queue?

Exchange Powershell Tip #11

Exchange Powershell Tip #11

How much free disk space I have on my Exchange Servers?

Exchange Powershell Tip #10

Exchange Powershell Tip #10

Find list of mailboxes which are having more than one primary SMTP address in an Exchange environment.