Update 6/17/2014: We have gotten some questions and wanted you to know that the below article also applies to Exchange 2013.
Many organizations have chosen to configure a hybrid deployment with E...
Published Dec 05, 2012
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Need advice to reduce CPU load on minimal Exchange 2016 server in Hybrid Environment.
Our migration is complete. No onprem mailboxes and no mailflow from onprem so no local SMTP required.
No more migrations required.
We have Azure AD Connect so our onprem AD is the master.
Went through all the steps to decommission our last Exchange 2010 server last month.
Now have a minimal Exchange 2016 server running on Server 2016.
The sole purpose of this server is for recipient management. eg. adding new Office365 mailboxes.
Problem: The Exchange Server 2016 runs continuously at 20-25% CPU when it has nothing to do.
No mailboxes. No SMTP connectors. No mailbox store.
What Exchange services can be safely shutdown so it simply operates as a recipient management tool?