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Brass Contributor

Oct 15, 2018

Do I need an Exchange Server?

Before anyone bites my head off or says "Yes! Of course you do!" hear me out. I have some scenarios I'm working through and I'm simply not sure... 1) Company is spinning off of Parent company. ...

MVP

Oct 15, 2018

Are you talking about an on premises exchange server? Well no! Can’t find a reason why you would need an on site server for these scenarios, but I might have misunderstood? Please elaborate why you think you need one.

Adam

Raechel Moermond

Brass Contributor

Oct 15, 2018

adam deltinger

Well, the only supported method of managing Exchange attributes is Exchange admin center or Exchange Management Shell. And really, the more I think about it, the more I think I'm going to need one.

If I have to change an email address, I would have to use ProxyAddresses in ADUC - which is technically an unsupported method. And I'm pretty sure that Hide from address list, even with the schema not extended, is still somehow in AD.

Darn. I think I'm going to need the server to be in a supported configuration.

adam deltinger
MVP
Oct 15, 2018
Proxyaddress has been working well for me many times, and you can extend the schema without installing exchange server

Having a running server on premises just for the sake of attributes defeats the purpose of exchange online!
adam deltinger
MVP
Oct 15, 2018
Proxyaddress has been working well for me many times, and you can extend the schema without installing exchange server
- Raechel Moermond
  Brass Contributor
  Oct 15, 2018
  adam deltinger
  Yes. Yes, you can do those things and you can use ADSIEdit and it will work. But the key here is "supported". Microsoft only SUPPORTS using EAC/EMS. As a consultant, I cannot in good conscious put my customers in an unsupported configuration, especially since they are using enterprise O365 licensing, which gets them a Hybrid Exchange License Key.