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OWA Doesn't Redirect in Hybrid Exchange
I am working on a new Hybrid Exchange Deployment and cannot get the On Premise URL for OWA to display the redirect link for my ExchangeOnline mailbox. Note that I am still testing and am using the T...
I took this one step further and setup a CNAME record per the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/hybrid-deployment/simplify-owa-url and that was the step that I was missing. In the end, I was just confused by the message and stopped the setup before it was finished. Now, the user gets a link to their O365 login.
LJ
I have also found that browser caching can interfere here. I needed to clear the browser cache for users whose mailboxes have moved. After that they got the correct redirect webpage.
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- Re: the cname solution - make sure to heed the note about how you have to only go to the cname FQDN using HTTP. If you try HTTPS, you get the scary warning about certificate name mismatch, which surely will ruin the user experience. Best to create a link or bookmark for users to click if using the cname solution, so they don't type or end up at HTTPS by accident.
Well I have learned something new there actually. Never realized that you could do this. Thank you for sharing your resolution!
