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Copper Contributor

Oct 23, 2018

Exchange Online Hybrid License

Afternoon, We have an on-premise dc with Office 365 for email. We have a Exchange 2007 server, which was our mail server before Office 365, which we continue to use to manage the mailboxes. Someo...

Copper Contributor

Oct 23, 2018

Thanks for this Chris.

I did find that article but i noticed it is from 2014 and more recent articles say 2007 is no longer supported as it is EOL and not hybrid compatible. The only solution I can think of is to essentially carry out an Exchange 2007 - Exchange 2013 migration but this would involve me buying an Exchange 2013 licence.

Rnishat0786

Iron Contributor

Oct 23, 2018

Hi Brian

I would suggest to open a case with MS support. You may refer to the below articles for reference, however opening a case with MS support would be a better Idea.

https://cloudiffic.com/office-365-hybrid-license-key/

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cc5f4947-9dc1-4030-8bb3-954f9c343ece/exchange-hybrid-license-key?forum=Exch2016SD

Thanks

Robin Nishad

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Technical Consultant

Brian McFadden
Copper Contributor
Oct 24, 2018
Thank you all!
- marlon24
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 24, 2019
  Hi Brian McFadden,
  
  Can you let us know what you ended up doing? We have a similar case and we're exploring options.
  - Brian McFadden
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 25, 2019
    marlon24
    
    Hey,
    
    I spoke with Microsoft to confirm the licensing requirements and they said that along as you are not using exchange as an active email server they you can take the hybrid licence to active. I started the hybrid configuration, took the license and then cancelled the hybrid tool:
    
    https://practical365.com/exchange-server/how-to-licence-exchange-hybrid-servers/