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The question nobody dares to ask! How do you create a new user in a hybrid environment.
- Mar 20, 2017
The best practice is whatever works for your user management workflows. You can create it either way. In a hybrid you can move mailboxes back and forth whether they were created on-prem or in the cloud.
One caveat with New-RemoteMailbox is that it can't do Shared mailboxes. Those you need to create on-prem and then move, or, create in EXO as a user mailbox and then convert to Shared. Either way, same result.
Have you looked at using New-RemoteMailbox or Enable-RemoteMailbox?
- Paul BridgesMar 20, 2017Copper Contributor
I would go with Paul here as having used New-RemoteMailbox myself and with the addition of the coming use of Security Groups in Azure to assign licensing you don't have to worry as much about that anymore either.
- Jerry MeyerMar 20, 2017Iron Contributor
Yes i know that will work and it will create only a remote mailbox for a user. But the question is what is the best practice for creating a user with mailbox in a hybrid environment so the mailbox will be in O365 exchange online.