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What Software/Licenses do i need to get a Hybrid Exchange and a local ActiveDirectory

Hi,

at the moment we are using imap for our mail accounts and there is only a nas with a local user-db as filerserver. At this place there are 27 User, but this will getting more in a few month.
So we are planning to use an Exchange server online in the cloud. Also everybody should get an Office licence with Outlook, word excel and powerpoint. The nas should stay but the authentication should be realized by using active directory.  We want to have virtualized servers.
A server with installed server2012R2 standard and with running hyperV  allready exists. So we are able to install 2 virtual servers from this licence.

What do we need to realize an online exchange, that uses our local active directory ? And what office licences are the best and cheapest way for all our people, office 365 or better olp ?

Maybe you experts out there can help me !
Thanks
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so do i understand this right:
i have to buy office 365 business premium 27 times
Then install server2012R2 as domaincontroller in a vm. With office365 i have already an online exchange. There is a AD connector that connects to my domaincontroller. If i change the password in ad , add user or delete user local then the exchange syncs this changing ?
And thats it ? Sounds simple and fitting...
What most people will do is buy a single licence of the required type, setup the AD connect and then simply increase the number of licences in Office365.
The accounts are created in AD and then synchronised up to Office365. There they can have a licence allocated to them.

For account management, I do an AD first policy - ie the changes are made in AD.
If a user leaves then the first thing I do is remove their licence from Office365. Then delete the account in AD. The account deletion is synchronised.
For a new user, they are created in AD. The user will then appear in Office365 where you can mail enable them or whatever. Simple way of managing such a small number of users.
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Hopefully last question:

you say
If a user leaves then the first thing I do is remove their licence from Office365

That means i pay for a year of subscription and if this person leaves our company 1 day after renewal, i delete this licence and may money is for nothing. If a few days later a new person starts at our company, i add a licence a have to pay once again for a year of subscription ?
Or do think something wrong ?
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When a user leaves and you remove the licence from the account, the licence is available to be assigned to another user.
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For us the best was to subscribe Office365 business premium with azure AD premium. This is all we need