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How and when to decommission your on-premises Exchange servers in a hybrid deployment
I have a question. We want to decommission our one Exchange server but I see in the Microsoft tips that we should keep last one for administration. "If you don't have any on-premises mailbox(es)...
- So the reason why you'd want to keep at least one Exchange box is for management purposes, as mentioned above. Microsoft only supports managing Exchange related objects and attributes via the Exchange management tools, no way around it. If you are fine with being in unsupported configuration and feel comfortable performing those management tasks via PowerShell, ADUC, ADSI Edit or whichever tool you prefer, you can certainly go ahead and remove the last Exchange server too.
So the reason why you'd want to keep at least one Exchange box is for management purposes, as mentioned above. Microsoft only supports managing Exchange related objects and attributes via the Exchange management tools, no way around it. If you are fine with being in unsupported configuration and feel comfortable performing those management tasks via PowerShell, ADUC, ADSI Edit or whichever tool you prefer, you can certainly go ahead and remove the last Exchange server too.
Thank you very much for clarification.