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Exchange Online vs. on-premises functionality

I'm the admin of an on-premises Exchange Server. In addition to user mailboxes, I have over 1000 contacts and lots of distribution groups, consisting of user mailboxes and contact email addresses. And I set up for forwarding of incoming user emails to outside addresses, sometimes also delivering to user inboxes and sometimes not. I have full admin rights to users mailboxes. I can hide addresses from the Global Address List. Question: Can I do all of these things in Exchange Online? Related question (or maybe the same rephrased): Can I manage the Global Address List from anywhere and to the same extent I now can?

--ron hicks

Network Zero

Yes you will be able to do all the above. Somethings you will need powershell, like setting an option for a user for their password not expire.

You might want to take a look at the different plans for the users though, that is something to keep in mind because they all come with different things.

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans

Ronald Hicks

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Well, that is good news. I'm perpetually uneasy about the whole on-premises scenario. I'd love to hand off responsibility for 99.99% uptime to someone.

Is there anything you can tell me about migrating my current GAL to Outlook Online?

Ronald Hicks

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Oops. I meant Exchange Online, not Outlook Online.

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Ronald Hicks

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That all looks very useful. Thank you.