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Jason McGee
Aug 17, 2017Copper Contributor
Do I need to keep an Exchange server after migrating all my mailboxes to Office 365
We just finished migrating all of our mailboxes to Office 365 and we are using Azure AD Connect to synch passwords. I want to remove our old Exchange servers but from my research, Microsoft recommen...
Jason McGee
Sep 01, 2017Copper Contributor
Andrew,
Thanks for your response! I have gotten my Hybrid Exchange key, thanks to your link. Now, my next issue is how to set up one of my existing Exchange servers as the hybrid. We have already migrated all the mailboxes to Office 365 and are using Azure AD Connect to sync passwords. I have looke3d for some guidance as to what to do next but found nothing.
Do you have any thoughts?
Sep 01, 2017
Hi Jason,
The best way to do is to install a new Exchange on the organization, put the hybrid key and do all configurations on that server (Certificate, URL's, services, etc), move the system mailboxes to that server to the default database without any users and then uninstall the other servers.