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woelki
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Feb 20, 2019

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 ...
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NunoAriasSilva
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Feb 20, 2019

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

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woelki
Iron Contributor
Feb 20, 2019

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:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/02/17/office-365-hybrid-configuration-wizard-for-exchange-2010/

 

And the newer one:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2019/02/05/the-microsoft-hybrid-agent-public-preview/

 

Kind regards,

Woelki

 

 

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