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Hybrid Exchange for new setup is it needed?
Hi All,
I have just started around 4 weeks ago for a new company as an IT Manager, currently all of there mailboxes and support are being managed by a service provider and they also are hosting there exchange externally, currently this is not synced to our domain controller so the users are having two separate passwords,
We are 95% close to winning a large contract which will see our users grow from around 30 to 250 or so, my question is im looking to roll out Office 365 for exchange and sharepoint, Some people are telling me i should have exchange set up in hybrid mode and others are telling me its not needed,
what is the best way to go about managing the exchange side of things? I do want directory synchronisation allowing for SSO.
thanks in advance for your advice.
Hi Daniel,
In addition to Loryan's suggestion I would like to provide you with the following link for Onboarding and set up guidance.
- If you're at 30 people now, and your AD isn't integrated to Exchange - then don't bother with a hybrid. Just use MigrationWiz to migrate mailboxes and cut over in a weekend.
If you don't have AD sync to O365 going then it won't be any difference as your users will still have two passwords, however you could take the opportunity now to implement it so that when users get added into AD they automatically provision in O365.
