Decommissioning Legacy Production Exchange 2016 Servers, 7/8–24

Please see the following scheduled Information Technology Services (ITS) maintenance process:

Date: Please see schedule below.

Start Time: Please see schedule below.

End Time: Please see schedule below.

The following work is being completed: ITS is decommissioning the existing legacy production Exchange 2016 servers as they near end of life. The decommissioning process will occur in the following phases: 

  • Tuesday, July 8 from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. – The first server will be placed into maintenance mode.
  • Thursday, July 10 from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. – The second server will be placed into maintenance mode.
  • Thursday, July 17 from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.  – If no issues are observed, both servers will be turned off.
  • Thursday, July 24 from 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. – If no negative impact is observed, the servers will be fully decommissioned.

All affected groups: WSU users managing a service that may still depend on the impacted servers.

All affected processes: Two legacy production Exchange 2016 servers (its-exch-01 and its-exch-02)

Duration of impact: This is a permanent change.

Necessary follow-up steps: None

Questions? Please contact Crimson Service Desk at crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu or 509-335-4357.