Forest Functional Level –
Active Directory must be at Windows Server 2003 forest functionality mode or higher.
Minimum Operation System Requirements-
- Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Minimum Memory Requirement (RAM) –
- Mailbox 8GB minimum
- Client Access 4GB minimum
- Mailbox and Client Access combined 8GB minimum
Minimum Client Requirements
- Outlook 2013
- Outlook 2010 SP1 with April 2012 Cumulative Update
- Outlook 2007 SP3 with July 2012 Cumulative Update
- Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition
- Outlook for Mac 2011
Minimum Requirement for Exchange 2010 Coexistence
- Removing Exchange 2003 Completely From the Environment
- Exchange 2007 Sp3 Updated Rollup
- Exchange 2010 Sp3
Fulfilling the above requirement – Exchange 2013 can coexist
Not Supported Scenarios –
1. Coexistence with Exchange 2003
2 .Outlook 2003 Clients are not Supported
3. Changing the Role of Window Server 2013 from a member server to a directory server, or vice versa, Where Exchange 2013 is already installed
4. Intel Itanium IA64 processors not supported
