What is Exchange hybrid deployment?
A hybrid deployment provides the seamless look and feel of a single Exchange organization between an on-premises Exchange organization and Exchange Online. In addition, a hybrid deployment can serve as an intermediate step to moving completely to an Exchange Online organization.
How does autodiscover work in hybrid environment?
In an Exchange hybrid scenario, Autodiscover points to your on-premises Exchange environment (i.e. Autodiscover.contoso.com) and when a mailbox is moved to Exchange Online the Outlook client will find a target address pointing to Exchange Online.
How do you do Exchange hybrid migration?
In this article
- Pre-requisites.
- Step 1: Verify you own the domain.
- Step 2: Start express migration.
- Step 3: Run directory synchronization to create users in Microsoft 365 or Office 365.
- Step 4: Give Microsoft 365 or Office 365 licences to your users.
- Step 5: Start migrating user mailbox data.
- Step 6: Update DNS records.
Is Adfs required for Exchange hybrid?
AD FS is not a mandatory requirement. It is only useful if you are attempting to: – Pass local user credentials through for a single-signon experience – Restrict access to Office 365 services via IP, group membership, or other attributes via custom AD FS claims rules. Exchange Hybrid is 100% independent of that.
What is hybrid Exchange?
A Hybrid Exchange environment allows you to take your local environment and the cloud environment together as a single mail organisation. This is practical because the management is on-premise (Active Directory) and the mailboxes can easily be managed via a hybrid environment towards Office 365 Exchange Online .
How do I know if my Exchange is a hybrid?
To check the hybrid configuration of your Exchange, simply open the Exchange admin center and navigate to the hybrid node (Fig. 2.). If the button on the setup page says enable or configure, it means that your local Exchange is not working in a hybrid deployment.
Where does autodiscover need to point in a hybrid environment?
In Exchange hybrid environment, we need point autodiscover record to On-premise Exchange server. For On-premise mailbox, it remain use previous autodiscover lookup behavior to find endpoint and access to Exchange.
What is o365 Autodiscover?
Autodiscover is the feature that Outlook uses to obtain configuration information for servers to which it connects. In Outlook 2016 with Exchange servers, Autodiscover is considered the single point of truth for configuration information and must be configured and working correctly for Outlook to be fully functional.
Why do you need Exchange hybrid?
Hybrid exchange enables secure email routing between your local and Exchange Online organisations. Administrators can use powerful and familiar Exchange management tools to move users to Exchange Online and manage users. Printers using the Exchange environment today continue to relay in exactly the same way as before.
How do I know if my Exchange is in hybrid mode?
What ports are required for Exchange hybrid?
Hybrid deployment protocols, ports, and endpoints
| Description | Port and protocol |
|---|---|
| SMTP mail flow between Microsoft 365 or Office 365 and on-premises Exchange | TCP 25 (SMTP/TLS) |
| Autodiscover | TCP 443 (HTTPS) |
| Free/busy, MailTips, and message tracking (EWS) | TCP 443 (HTTPS) |
| Multi-mailbox search (EWS) | TCP 443 (HTTPS) |
How does Exchange hybrid flow work?
On-Premises Mailboxes will be directly delivered in the Exchange Servers and Post validation and identified that Exchange online User Mailboxes, Mails again send back to Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Now, Exchange Online Protection (EOP) takes that mails and deliver them to the Exchange Online users directly.