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Iron Contributor

Jun 28, 2019

Hybrid Exchange and shared mailboxes

Hi all Needed some advice please. I have an Exchange 2010 hybrid setup. On my onprem environment I had mailboxes that were essentially shared with a number of staff. In order for me to migrate th...

Iron Contributor

Jun 28, 2019

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Thanks Dav. I really don't want to migrate these mailboxes back to onprem. Surely there must be a another way. If I move them back to onprem, convert them to shared and move them to Office 365 would I then be able to delete the onprem AD accounts?

headburgh

MCT

Jul 09, 2019

Navishkar Sadheo Hi, that is the official way to tackle this issue. There are some unsupported ways to tackle this problem, which are of course not recommended.

In response to if you could remove the AD-Account associated with that "new" shared mailbox, the answer is no. Not without removing the shared mailbox in itself. The account however will be disabled when converted to a shared mailbox instead.

As for permissions, there should not be any problems regarding this after the conversion has taken place. I´ve done it multiple times on-prem.

Regards,

Viktor