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Brass Contributor

Feb 14, 2018

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Enable-Mailuser for cloud only users

Hey, I have a question concerning turning cloud-only users into Mail Users in Office 365 without re-creating the user accounts (as they already are licensed for SPO and need to remain licensed with...

Pablo R. Ortiz
Feb 14, 2018
Agree with Dean_Gross, and if you want to assign Exchange Server mailbox, you need to sync users with Azure AD Connect

Iron Contributor

Feb 14, 2018

Agree with Dean_Gross, and if you want to assign Exchange Server mailbox, you need to sync users with Azure AD Connect

Stephan Bisser
Brass Contributor
Feb 14, 2018
That won't help as we need to migrate those users to the AD in a couple of months and then we need to do a mail migration for those users. So assigning an ExO license is no option...
- Pablo R. Ortiz
  Iron Contributor
  Feb 14, 2018
  take a look at this:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect-existing-tenant#sync-with-existing-users-in-azure-ad
- Pablo R. Ortiz
  Iron Contributor
  Feb 14, 2018
  When you say AD I asume it's local (on-premises). So, if you will perform a mail migration that means you already have mail enabled users on-premises? If so, the way to go is syncing form local AD to Azure AD, and not the other way round.
  - Stephan Bisser
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 14, 2018
    Yes, right now we have one AD (onprem) bound to AAD. Within AAD we have synced and cloud users as some users from other ADs need to work with SPO currently but their AD account is not migrated to the AD which is synced to AAD. So we need to mail enable those cloud users in order to get mail notifications from SPO to their active mailbox prior to mail migrating them with their onprem mailbox to ExO.
    
    Is that clear what I want to tell? :)

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