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Can I use Load Balancer for Hybrid Exchange redirection?
I am replacing by Exchange 2010 Hybrid Exchange server with Exchange 2016 Hybrid servers. I have no on-premise mailboxes -- only Office 365 mailboxes. The on-premise servers are for bulk and anonymous sending, management, web redirection to Office. In the past I've had trouble with IIS reconfiguring itself after patches and updates. I'd like to omit IIS activities from configuration and simplify. Would it be possible to setup a load balancer to redirect mail.domain.com to outlook.com/owa/domainname .com and not configure IIS. I know the smtp sending wouldn't be effected, but I'm not clear on autodiscover,activesync, etc. and how they might be effected. All the web articles I'm seeing show setting virtual directories for autodiscover,activesync,ow a, etc. - what is the purpose of these virtual directories and are they necessary for a no on-premise maibox hybrid install.What do I need to test for on-premise clients? Thanks in advance.
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I talked to Microsoft. At first I felt like I didn't need virtual directories, but then later engineers suggested I set them up -- and they realized I had no on-premise mailboxes -- so I wondered if I was missing something.
Probably you can remove hybrid config and just keep AD sync in place
No need to redirect any URLs to O365
Use native O365 URL for owa access
I believe your autodiscover is pointing to O365, in that case set onpremise SCP to $null
Get-Clientaccessserver | Set-ClientAccessServer -AutodiscoverinternalURI $null
Now autodiscover will work with DNS discovery and you simply need autodiscover record
No need to redirect any URLs to O365
Use native O365 URL for owa access
I believe your autodiscover is pointing to O365, in that case set onpremise SCP to $null
Get-Clientaccessserver | Set-ClientAccessServer -AutodiscoverinternalURI $null
Now autodiscover will work with DNS discovery and you simply need autodiscover record
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How does activesync work from Internal network?
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okay, thanks.
Normally we use outlook.office365.com/mail
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login.microsoftonline.com