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Anthony Russell
Apr 11, 2019Iron Contributor
Native Microsoft Sync Technology Migration
Back in the end of last year, Microsoft announced that they are moving Outlook for iOS and Android from the REST API protocol to the Microsoft native sync technology, starting with Office 365 custome...
- May 24, 2019
It seems we have now been converted today, as it now shows 'Microsoft sync technology' in the account info and the 'Teams Meeting' option shows up in Outlook mobile.
Running the PowerShell command shows that not all users are using it yet, but I have noticed that my device is showing twice. One for 'REST' and one for 'Outlook'.
Finally...
Also notice that Outlook mobile on iOS got updated to version 3.24.1 overnight. Coincidence?
VasilMichev
Apr 11, 2019MVP
It's currently available for outlook.com accounts, and it's the other way around - first outlook.com, then O365 will follow.
Anthony Russell
Apr 12, 2019Iron Contributor
Q: As a tenant administrator, can I control which of my users will be migrated to the native Microsoft sync technology?
No, the migration to the native Microsoft sync technology will be on a tenant-by-tenant basis and not a per-user basis. While the tenant selection order for migration is random, we are being deliberate about migrating Office 365 mailboxes first. If you are a customer operating in a hybrid configuration where a portion of your mailboxes remain on-premises, the on-premises users leveraging hybrid modern authentication will be migrated to the native Microsoft sync technology at a later date. This means that your Office 365 users will migrate to the native Microsoft sync technology, while the on-premises users continue to use the REST API to connect to Exchange Online.
- Ross Smith IVApr 12, 2019
Microsoft
For Outlook mobile, major feature deployment operates with a staggered rollout where we begin with consumer accounts (if applicable) and then deploy to commercial accounts like Office 365. Our primary focus for commercial accounts was moving Government Community Cloud. Now that's complete, we'll be focusing on the remaining O365 tenants.
As to the text you highlighted, you're taking it out of context from the rest of the paragraph as we're migrating O365 accounts to the Microsoft sync technology before we migrate on-premises Exchange accounts leveraging hybrid modern auth.
- Anthony RussellApr 12, 2019Iron Contributor
Not sure what you mean. I can see that the paragraph mentions that on-premises hybrid accounts will be migrated at a later date, but this does not affect us as we don't have any.
The statement is clear to me that Office 365 accounts will be migrated first. I understand that GCC accounts need to be given priority, but consumer accounts?
My main issue here is that now we have been pushed to use Teams, we need to get it working as expected. At the moment, it doesn't.