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Copper Contributor

Jul 17, 2017

Hybrid deployment in Office 365 | Checklist and pre requirements

In the current article, we will review: The pre-requirements of Exchange hybrid environment Best practices and recommendation for the required preparations Tools and methods that will help us to ...

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Chris-Yue

Iron Contributor

Apr 30, 2018

What a great article!

I have an Exchange Server 2010 on premise server setup in Hybrid Mode.

This server also has OWA configured and I remember needing to do this as I wanted to migrate my Public Folders over to Exchange Online.

This I have now done so all mailboxes and Public Folders are over in Office 365.

Do I need to maintain the presence of the OWA locally still?

Ahmed Bilal

Copper Contributor

May 25, 2018

Dear Chris,

if all mailboxes and Public Folders moved to cloud the you can simply redirect OWA URL's to Exchange online OWA creating CNAME record on your public DNS so your users can use seamless access experience with the old URL.

for example if your OWA address is mail.microsoft.com then your CANME on the public will be

Record Type: CNAME

host Name : mail

Point to Address: mail.office365.com

also please note that if your local Domain name is different then the Public Domain name then you need to have the same CNAME record under your local DNS server

hope this answer your query.

Thanks

Chris-Yue
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2018
Thanks Ahmed, very much appreciated.