Features | Exchange 2010 | Exchange 2013 | Exchange 2016 |
Exchange Administration Center Exchange Administration Center (EAC) – EAC is the web-based all-in-one management console in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013/2016 that replaces the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), Public Folder administration console, Role Based Access Control (RBAC) User Editor,and Unified Messaging. | | | |
List View The list view in EAC has been designed to remove key limitations that existed in ECP. ECP was limited to displaying up to 500 objects and, if you wanted to view objects that weren’t listed in the details pane, you needed to use searching and filtering to find those specific objects | Yes. Limited to displaying up to 500 objects | Yes. List view is approximately 20,000 objects | Yes. List view is approximately 20,000 objects |
Notification Viewer The Notification viewer allows you to view the status of long-running processes and, if you choose, receive notification via an email message when the process completes. | | | |
Cloud on your terms Deploy mailboxes on-premises, online, or a combination of both with a hybrid deployment. | | | |
Robust and Flexible Robust and flexible command-line tools – Reduce complexity by using PowerShell scripting. | | | |
Large Low-cost Mailboxes The Large low-cost mailboxes: Get support for larger mailboxes while deploying less expensive storage. | | | |
Managed Availability Microsoft Exchange 2013 has a new monitoring and alerting engine built into the product called Managed Availability. Managed Availability detects, alerts and recovers problems as they occur within the product. | No. Used System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor an Exchange environment | | |
Mobile Access and Connectivity | | | |
Mobile Email Access mobile email the way you want. | | | |
Outlook Web App Get web-based email that supports access from smartphones, tablets, and browsers. | | | |
Access to Apps like Bing Maps, Messageware TakeNote | | | |
Outlook on the web offline | | | |
Touch-optimized Touch-optimized: A great user experience voice with great support for touch and motion. | | | |
A Unified Inbox Voicemail with a unified inbox: Check voicemail more quickly with text preview. | | | |
Smart Search Smart Search learns from users’ communication and collaboration behavior to enhance and prioritize search results in Exchange. | | | |
Merge Contacts Ability to merge contacts from multiple sources: Users can import contact information from LinkedIn (and other networks in the future) so that they have all of their information in one place. | | | |
Integration with SharePoint Get access to project information from SharePoint and Exchange, all from within Outlook, using site mailboxes. | | | |
Data Security | | | |
Spam and Malware Protection Anti-spam and anti-malware protection: Helps protect your network from malicious software transferred through email messages. All messages sent or received by your Exchange server are scanned for malware (viruses and spyware). | | | |
Data Loss Prevention Use built-in DLP rules to identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data and inform users about policy violations before emails are sent. | | | |
In-place Archiving and Retention In-place archiving and retention: Automatically retain data based on policy or business requirements and store older content in an In-Place Archive, allowing you to remain compliant. | | | |
Supported Protocols | | | |
Outlook through Direct RPC | | No. Every Outlook should connect through RPC Over HTTP (i.e Outlook Anywhere) | MAPI over HTTPS is default connection (Outlook anywhere) | RPC OVER HTTP is the fallback Protocol |
Outlook 2003 Client | Supported | Not supported. Only Outlook 2007 and higher versions are supported. | Not supported. Only Outlook 2010 SP3 and higher versions are supported. |
Self Signed Certificate Warning Message in Client’s End | | No. Because Exchange 2013 CAS Server automatically trusts Exchange 2013 Mailbox server’s Certificate. | No. Because Exchange 2016 has all roles in one Server sharing same server Certificate. |
Outlook Web App Spell Check | | No. Relies on Browser Spell Check. | No. Relies on Browser Spell Check. |
Themes | | Exchange 2013 provides over 20 built-in themes | Exchange 2016 provides over 50 built-in themes |
Link preview enables users to paste a link into messages, and Outlook on the web automatically generates a rich preview to give recipients a peek into the contents of the destination. This works with video links as well. | | | |
web action pane | Most commonly used actions available such as New, Reply all, and Delete | Most commonly used actions available such as New, Reply all, and Delete | New actions have been added such as Archive, Sweep, and Undo along with previous ones |
Apps for Outlook | | allow users to use online apps to extend the capabilities of Outlook on the web | allow users to use online apps to extend the capabilities of Outlook on the web |
Offline Access Offline access lets users write messages in their browser when offline, then have the messages delivered when they connect to the Internet | | | |
Office Online (Formerly Office web apps) | | | |
Microsoft Word | | | |
Microsoft Excel | | | |
Microsoft Power Point | | | |
Microsoft One Note | | | |
Sharing and Collaboration | | | |
Site Mailboxes Site mailboxes improve collaboration and user productivity by allowing access to both documents in a SharePoint site and email messages in Outlook 2013, using the same client interface. | | | |
Shared Mailboxes A shared mailbox is a mailbox that multiple users can use to read and send email messages. Shared mailboxes can also be used to provide a common calendar, allowing multiple users to schedule and view vacation time or work shifts. | | | |
Public Folders Public folders are designed for shared access and provide an easy and effective way to collect, organize, and share information with other people in your workgroup or organization. Public folders help organize content in a deep hierarchy that’s easy to browse. | | | |
Batch Mailbox Moves Ability to move multiple mailboxes in large batches. | | | |
Exchange Workload Management | | | |
System Resource Health Monitor the health of system resources – Managing workloads based on the health of system resources. | | | |
Control Resources Control how resources are consumed by individual users – Controlling how resources are consumed by individual users was possible in Exchange 2010 (where it’s called user throttling), and this capability has been expanded for Exchange 2013. | | | |