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woelki
Feb 20, 2019Iron Contributor
Exchange hybrid deployment with servers in different locations
Hi there,
one of our customers is planning to migrate to O365 (Exchange Online in first line) from Exchange 2010 SP3. We want to provide a proper advise how to migrate.
They utilize a single AD and a single Exchange Org, but with different mailbox servers (no DAG) in different countries. Gladly they want to migrate to a single tenant.
Now the question is, would a hybrid deployment be the weapon of choice? As I'm correct, the hybrid deployment is per Org, so there would be one hybrid deployment.
Let's say the the main site is in "country A" and we want to trigger the remote mailbox move for a mailbox hosted on a server in "country B". Would be the hybrid deployment the best approach or would it be better to utilize a migration tool for the different locations?
Kind regards,
Chris
Hi woelki ,
Is advised that you have an Hybrid server in the infrastructure. You can install an Exchange 2013 or 2016 on the same Exchange infrastructure and then after configure hybrid and test mail flow, migration some test mailboxes you can migrate directly from the Exchange to Office 365.
You can read more here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/exchange-hybrid
- woelkiIron Contributor
Hi NunoAriasSilva,
thanks for your reply. I ofter heard that you should deploy hybrid starting with Exchange 2010 or higher, but why? I have here two articles which are confusing me.
The older one from year 2016 about the hybrid configuration wizard for Exchange 2010:Office 365 Hybrid Configuration wizard for Exchange 2010
And the newer one:
The Microsoft Hybrid Agent Public Preview
Kind regards,
Woelki
Hi woelki ,
Is advised to have Hybrid with Exchange 2013 or 2016 that can coexist with your Exchange 2010.
The first link is not advised to follow because is with Exchange 2010. The second one that is in preview also not advised and supported in production and have some limitiations.
The better solution is to have an Exchange 2013 or 2016 hybrid has I have mentioned before.