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Create Mail Enabled User Post Staged Migration
After completing a staged migration for all of our on premise AD users and using AD Connect to keep our AD in sync with Office 365. What is the suggested method to create a NEW mail enabled user? Thi...
- Create the AD user with all the details require. go to your On-prem Exchange managment Shell and run Enable-RemoteMailbox -Identity "FirstName LastName" -RemoteRoutingAddress "FirstName.LastName@Domain.onmicrosoft.com"
make sure you have assign Office 365 License to the AD user. exchange online account will be added for the user.
There's nothing to migrate for a mail-enabled user, it's just the user account with some additional properties, which will all get synced to O365. So managing them all centrally on-premises is the best approach, unless you have some specific requirements for creating a cloud-only user.