Over the past several years, we have received feedback from all sorts of customers on how the Hybrid Configuration Wizard can be improved. One highly requested piece of feedback has been focused arou...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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What are the steps "minimal hybrid" is performing? Is it excluding only org relationship or something more as well from full hybrid?
"The Hybrid configuration has strict prerequisites around certificates and configuration scenarios that for some customers are confusing and unnecessary."
But as we understand that prerequisite still remains same and certificate is required for minimal as well so what we are getting as advantage?
As mentioned in the article this is a important step in the journey of offering a greatly simplified migration experience. This is NOT the end state but it was significant enough that we felt it was worth releasing.
The main benefits are for customers that do not require secure mail or free busy, those customer now get no confusing questions to configure hybrid. This process also removes the need for creating the TXT records for Federation and greatly minimizes the surface area for failure. In addition, the wizard will complete without third party certificate when minimal hybrid is selected. Technically if you intend on moving mailboxes the certificate will be required, but for some that may be coming from lotus, they may just want Exchange setup for recipient management purposes.