So, you’ve completed your migration to Exchange Online. Email flows smoothly into and out of the cloud, and all your mailboxes are now online. What’s next for your Exchange Servers, now that you’ve made the transition?
After completion you will have several tasks to perform to remove Exchange Servers from your environment, but there is one important caveat you need to know about; if you run Azure AD Connect then you can’t remove every Exchange Server from your environment. You will need to keep at least one around for management purposes. In this article, I’ll walk through what you can do to minimise what you keep and need to maintain, and what you can consider planning for in the future. You can also join me at TEC this week, on September 2nd.
Office 365 10-Year Anniversary Series: Following Exchange into the Cloud
This is the third article in a continuation of our weekly series celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Office 365. Microsoft MVP Nicolas Blank shares his experience as a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange 2010, and how his world changed drastically over the past ten years as he followed Exchange into the Cloud.
Why you need to rethink how you approach Exchange Hybrid migrations
Hybrid hasn’t changed much – but everything around it has. Over the last few years small changes to the way people deploy Microsoft 365 along with bigger shifts in the way your secure Microsoft 365 mean your old assumptions about Exchange Online migrations have to change. Has SharePoint become the go-to technology in Microsoft 365? Has HAFNIUM made publishing Exchange for Hybrid migrations more difficult? And how can MFA impact your once seamless migrations?
Minimal or Full Exchange Hybrid? The Video Explanation
Co-Chief Editor of Practical 365, Steve Goodman, demonstrates a whiteboard explanation of whether to choose between a Minimal or Full Exchange Hybrid.
How to license Exchange Hybrid servers
As you deploy your Exchange Hybrid you will need to licence these, here’s Steve Goodman’s quick guide on how to Exchange Hybrid licences.