• Exchange Server 2016 Product Key
• Exchange 2016 Product Key Free Download

Exchange server provides email solution for enterprise which runs on Windows servers. Before you deploy Exchange server in your organization, it is better to know about Exchange 2016 editions and licensing information.

Exchange Server 2016 Product Key

The HCW validates your Microsoft 365 subscription and installs the appropriate licenses on your servers. Note that the free Exchange Server license is not available for Exchange 2019 hybrid servers.” Exchange 2019 can of course still function as a Hybrid, but it must be licensed with a Standard Edition Key or an Enterprise Edition key. MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2016 STANDARD EDITION LICENSE KEY AND DOWNLOAD LINK – This is LIFETIME ACTIVATION and GENUINE LICENSE from Microsoft. – Lifetime warranty – replacement or refund 100% if keys invalid / not working / – License is valid for 1 PC, Genuine, Lifetime Activation!!! – Following the purchase you will receive License key code for activation and Link to DOWNLOAD.

Exchange 2016 Editions and Licensing

Microsoft provides two different editions of Exchange 2016 which are Standard and Enterprise. Both Standard and Enterprise editions provides same functionality and management features. The only difference is number of mailbox database supported by each editions.

• Exchange Server 2016 Standard: – Standard edition support up to 5 mountable mailbox database. If you have Exchange 2016 Standard edition server in DAG (Database Availability Group) and have one active mailbox database and one passive mailbox database then you now have 3 remaining database count that you can create. You can create more than 5 mailbox database but only 5 can be mounted at any time. This edition is designed to provide email solution for small to medium businesses. The database count includes both active and passive database.
• Exchange Server 2016 Enterprise: – Enterprise edition support up to 100 mailbox database including all active and passive copies of database. This edition is designed to provide email solution for large businesses.

Use following powershell cmdlet to view current Exchange server version and edition,

You can activate your trial copy of Exchange 2016 to Standard edition or Enterprise edition. You can also upgrade your copy of Exchange 2016 to Enterprise edition from Standard edition. But you can not downgrade from Enterprise edition to Standard edition. Note: when you change product key in Mailbox server you need to restart Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.

Clients accessing Exchange servers also require license. This license is called client access license (CAL). CALs are not something you would activate in client machine or server. It is just a license that you need to purchase so that clients or users can access the Exchange server legally. There are two types of CALs, Standard or Enterprise CAL. With either edition of Exchange server, any CAL can be used. Both CALs can also be used to make use of full features of Exchange server.

• Standard CAL: Standard CAL allows clients to access most of the Exchange features and functionalities like emails, calendar, outlook on the web, and so on.
• Enterprise CAL: Enterprise CAL allows clients to access more enterprise features like, in-place archive, in-place hold, data loss prevention, unified messaging, journaling and so on. You can’t purchase Enterprise CAL only. Enterprise CAL are sold as add-on to Standard CAL. So to access full enterprise features of Exchange 2016, you need to purchase both Standard CAL and Enterprise CAL.

So make sure you purchase both Exchange license and CAL license to use all the features of Exchange server.

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If you have Server 2016 Data Center your server likely came with a single COA (Certificate of Authenticity) sticker containing a single DataCenter CD Key. If you then try to use that Key to activate new Server 2016 or Server 2012 Standard VM’s it will fail. This is because Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 VM’s use a different activate process than previous versions of Windows Server.

Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016 now use “Automatic Virtual Machine Activation” or AVMA which means that the VM’s have a special driver loaded that lets them confirm the host version is licensed and activated properly. If it is, the VM’s will use the following “free” Product Keys:

To get this function to work, your VM needs to have the DATA EXCHANGE, Integration Service enabled, which most do by default.

If you want to enter a Product Key using PowerShell use the following command:

slmgr –ipk <productkey>

Exchange 2016 Product Key Free Download

for example:

slmgr –ipk TMJ3Y-NTRTM-FJYXT-T22BY-CWG3J