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Brian McFadden
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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...
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marlon24's avatar
marlon24
Copper Contributor
Jun 23, 2019

Hi Brian McFadden,


Can you let us know what you ended up doing?  We have a similar case and we're exploring options.

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    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/

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      jpoindexter9
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 23, 2019

      Brian McFaddenfor clarification when hey state "active email server" is that only referencing mailboxes within the server? Do client connections (using it as a CAS) count as well?