Rob
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On prem Exchange 2016 intergration to o365 tenant
Hi Experts,
Just wanted to get some advice. We're an o365 E3 license holder, who pretty much use all the functionality of o365 online with the exception of Exchange. For reasons I shall not bore you with, we still run an on prem Exchange 2016 environment, along with a local AD syncing via AAD Connect.
My question is as follows. Is there a simple way to intergrate Exchange 2016 on prem with the Office 365 tenant without migrating, so that when people are working via www.office.com, they can access email, sharepoint etc through the single pane of glass view (aka - for the end user, they are non the wiser that they are accessing Exchange on prem, SharePoint Online). I've read conflicting posts as to what is possible.
If you have any thoughts, or can point me to some good posts, I would really appreciate it.
Many thanks,
Rob
Just wanted to get some advice. We're an o365 E3 license holder, who pretty much use all the functionality of o365 online with the exception of Exchange. For reasons I shall not bore you with, we still run an on prem Exchange 2016 environment, along with a local AD syncing via AAD Connect.
My question is as follows. Is there a simple way to intergrate Exchange 2016 on prem with the Office 365 tenant without migrating, so that when people are working via www.office.com, they can access email, sharepoint etc through the single pane of glass view (aka - for the end user, they are non the wiser that they are accessing Exchange on prem, SharePoint Online). I've read conflicting posts as to what is possible.
If you have any thoughts, or can point me to some good posts, I would really appreciate it.
Many thanks,
Rob
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Thanks for the feedback. I think for our purposes, the Hybrid Configuration whilst not perfect, will at least allow us a certain level of consistancy for the users who choose to access the office portal whilst they are about on travels. The reason for not moving the mailboxes to the cloud, really comes from concerns around lattency accessing shared calendars. We have a rather odd working environment, where everyone has everyone elses calendar open in their Outlook client. Whilst I know Outlook would allow us to cache such shared folders, we ran into all sorts of sync / missing appointment issues when we tested this with our on prem exchange. Further to this, our infrastructure manager ran into similar issues at his previous role, and does not want to repeat.
Thanks again,
Rob