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Best Practices to administer hybrid exchange 2016
Hello , we use an Exchange administrator synced from AD to manage botj Local Exchange and Exchange Online .our security teams push us to use a cloud account to manager exchange online and not wi...
- Your permissions determine what the account can do. There are no real common tasks though. If your mailboxes are all in the cloud and you are in hybrid mode for AD then you create remote mailboxes on premises and set all AD related settings on premises and in the cloud set all the license, MFA etc. You don't tend to do the same thing in both places even if it's the same account synced for admin or different accounts
So you mean that you have admin access to only Exchange Online not on Exchange On Prem..?
If yes, you definitely need an Admin account to manage Exchange On Prem & Online mailboxes....
As you wont be able to do much with an account that is Exchange online only...
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Ronie Nishad
Sr Consultant