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The question nobody dares to ask! How do you create a new user in a hybrid environment.
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.
It gets easier to understand once you've done the hybrid setup ;) Exchange 2013 CU15 hybrid in my case:
Once you've done the hybrid setup, you simply get a new UI option in the exchange admin center (onPrem) under recipients > mailboxes > New Office 365 Mailbox.
Thats it.
So there is no need to go through that many steps as you've described
- create new Office 365 Mailbox
- this of course creates the onPrem AD User with the linked Office 365 mailbox
- wait for Azure AD Connect to sync your your AD Users (not sure if this is necessary)
- enable Exchange Online License for synced user
- done
Ivan54 wrote:It gets easier to understand once you've done the hybrid setup ;) Exchange 2013 CU15 hybrid in my case:
Once you've done the hybrid setup, you simply get a new UI option in the exchange admin center (onPrem) under recipients > mailboxes > New Office 365 Mailbox.
Thats it.
Thanks a lot! (edit) apparently I was not aware of that option at the time I wrote the script.
Its good to see that this question isn't really that stupid :).
What i do is the following, i use create user in onprem and mailbox onprem migrate it to office365 and assign license when the customer is gonna use the hybrid server for Maintanance and administration.
When a customer is planning to go all the way to the cloud i use create user sync user assign license. With the assumption the Exchange on-prem environment will be cleaned up.
Jerry Meyer wrote:When a customer is planning to go all the way to the cloud i use create user sync user assign license. With the assumption the Exchange on-prem environment will be cleaned up.
Your question (and thread title) are about hybrid deployments, which means directory sync is in place + an on-prem Exchange server. What is this second scenario you're throwing into the mix where Exchange will be "cleaned up"?
Keep in mind that with directory sync in place, an on-prem Exchange server is required for managing mail attributes in a supported manner, even without the hybrid configuration.
O i did not know that. I thought that the Serviceaccounts from the AzureADsync are managing the the writeback from Exchangeonline.
Its just an idea on how to manage users and mailboxes it is not an real customer case at this moment. We have one customer who wants to clean up there onprem Exchange but thats a different topic i think.
