Build new exchange SE or in place upgrade?
We’re out of Compliance and thanks to Broadcom we’re lifting to a cloud provider. I can use the Exchange SE ISO in place and then use a migration tool to migrate to the cloud after figuring out a plan on how to do that safely for Exchange, or I can build new servers in the cloud. My coworker thinks we can’t build new, she says it’ll be too much/ high risk low reward, and that we should just in place upgrade and migrate with our tool. Note: Our tool is literally a block level copy type of tool with a lot of fancy checks where during failover it’ll reboot the destination device and we’ll have to cut network to the old subnet and bring the new subnet up live. I think if I build new we could just shut off the old ones and replace the IPs or something. Maybe she was right…
Edit: We’re on CU 14 currently. CU 15 is there but vendor stated CU 14 was a perfectly fine avenue to get to SE with