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Migrating On-Premises Distribution Lists to Exchange Online
If you run a hybrid Exchange deployment, you probably have some on-premises distribution lists that you’d like to move to the cloud. Office 365 offers no way to do this, so it’s up to PowerShell. I...
Exactly. AD sync brings an onprem object to the cloud but management remains onprem. That’s fine if you want to keep onprem servers around, but not so good if you aspire to become cloud-only.
TonyRedmond - this is an old thread I know but we are a large organization looking to do this primarily so that we can give control of managing DLs back to the end users. If you are syncing DLs from on prem to EXO, then users cannot modify those DLs any longer once their mailbox has been moved to EXO. With thousands of DLs though, this will be a monumental task.