Transition Student license to Exchange Online for Alumni licenses

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Hello,&nbsp;We have been asked to keep email active for our graduated seniors. We are in the process of getting a quantity of&nbsp;Exchange Online for Alumni licenses for this purpose.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our user accounts are on-prem and we use Azure AD Sync to synchronize them Office 365. Our user mailboxes are all in Office 365.&nbsp;Changing the license from Student to Alumni seems fairly straight forward. We would also like convert these accounts from on-prem AD sync accounts to cloud only. We need to free up our AD user Cals as these students leave. I have not found good guidance on the best way to move students to&nbsp;Exchange Online for Alumni licenses, have them keep all their existing email, and change them from AD Sync'd accounts to cloud only.&nbsp;Any thoughts would be appreciated!&nbsp;Thanks,&nbsp;~jake&nbsp;&nbsp;

vasilmichev · Answer

I'd recommend using the inactive mailboxes functionality:&nbsp;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/inactive-mailboxes-in-office-365?view=o365-worldwide

braydenw · Answer

JacobKane&nbsp;thanks for the Q. You may have already found the answers to your question but just in case, we did a post on this exact topic.&nbsp;

davet99 · Answer

JacobKane&nbsp;&nbsp;With respect, the Inactive mailbox procedure seems a bit roundabout; and the blog post is only about re-assigning licenses and doesn't address the other main question, which is how to delete the accounts in AD and transition to cloud-only whilst retaining identity and mailbox contents.&nbsp;I wonder if there is a more elegant solution than Litigative holding etc...

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