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Enable AD Connect sync with existing Office 365 accounts and mailbox
You should have done the directory sync before you started the mailbox migration.
The easiest way to do this for 60 users is described at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-minimal-hybrid-to-quickly-migrate-exchange-mailboxes-to-office-365-fdecceed-0702-4af3-85be-f2a0013937ef?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
But since you did not do that, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2641663/how-to-use-smtp-matching-to-match-on-premises-user-accounts-to-office to get these cloud accounts connected to the on-premises accounts
Hello Dean
I wanted to followup on this thread. We are in the process of a similar migration. My question is since the Microsoft Office 365 license was originally issues in Office online 365 and now its being re-issues to on-premise account AD , what will the end user desktop experience be? Will they be prompted / required to re-logon to their Microsoft account once they reopen Outlook? I reason I ask is because we have 152 users who will be in this same scenario and having 152 users all at once being prompted for credentials is very time consuming to support.
Any thoughts to this will be welcomed, thank you.
Jerry
Hi,
Thank you for your answer. Ok but now the migration is already started, and I must wait till it's finished to perform any change in Office 365.
So I can prepare the local AD accounts for the moment. For the SMTP matching, is it enough to fill the E-mail filed in the General tab of a user properties (Attribute : mail) ? Or do I have to set the "ProxyAddresses" attribute ?
For the moment there is no Exchange server present, all e-mails was on an external Zimbra server.
So for mailboxes management, it's recommended to have an hybrid Exchange. Regarding our situation, when the Exchange server must be installed and when the hybrid configuration should be run ?
And how mailbox attributes present on Exchange Online will be be imported to local ?
Thank you
After the migration is completed, you should change users' UPNs to match those in on prem AD. I'm assuming that the login name in on prem AD is same than email address. After that, you can run the AAD Connect to synchronize your users (and connect the existing Office 365 users to AD users).
For the SMTP match, mail attribute works fine unless there is something in capital in ProxyAddresses attribute (such as SMTP:something@else.com).
You do not need Exchange in your scenario, you can manage users (and mailboxes) in on prem AD. However, to add aliases etc., you need to populate ProxyAddresses attribute.
After you configure AAD connect, all attributes are synced from on prem to AAD. It will sync back to AD only mailbox archive guids.
Hi Nestori,
Thank you for your answer. the problem is that the login name dosen't match the mail address. In this case, do I have to set the UPN as the mail domain ?
The SMTP match should be okay, the mail attribute is set and the proxyAddresses is empty.
In the case, where I want a local Exchange to migrate user mailbox to shared, or other things, is it easy to install ?
Regards
