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Difference between Usermailbox vs Office365 mailbox - Exchange Hybrid
We have Exchange Hybrid setup. In exchange admin center we would like to understand the different between creating “User mailbox” vs “Office 365 mailbox”. The problem is when we create a...
User mailbox means creating mailbox in your local DB, O365 mailbox means creating mailbox in O365.
If you login to O365 you will be able to see mailboxes there, which are displayed here as mail users.
Recipient type is "mail user" so that your on premises exchange knows that there is a corresponding mailbox for this object in O365.
If you login to O365 you will be able to see mailboxes there, which are displayed here as mail users.
Recipient type is "mail user" so that your on premises exchange knows that there is a corresponding mailbox for this object in O365.
In other words it creates a "remote mailbox" directly in Exchange Online.