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Exchange Hybrid Configuration HCW8001 Unable to determine the Tenant Routing Domain
- Jul 29, 2025
VasilMichev, thank you for your reply! I just found the solution. By default, Microsoft sets up a domain for customers, like company.onmicrosoft.com, which is automatically added to Exchange's Accepted Domains. In order for HCW to complete, it also needs a record with "mail" in it, like company.mail.onmicrosoft.com, added to Accepted Domains. Although both domains can be easily added to on-premises Exchange, only Microsoft support can add them to Exchange Online's Accepted Domains. I opened a support ticket, they added the domain, and HCW completed successfully.
FWIW: I think either the Entra Cloud Sync or the HCW is supposed to automatically add the "mail" domain because, in my test environment, it was automatically created. I suspect this is an intermittent bug that only affects some users, which would explain why the solution was hard to find.
VasilMichev, thank you for your reply! I just found the solution. By default, Microsoft sets up a domain for customers, like company.onmicrosoft.com, which is automatically added to Exchange's Accepted Domains. In order for HCW to complete, it also needs a record with "mail" in it, like company.mail.onmicrosoft.com, added to Accepted Domains. Although both domains can be easily added to on-premises Exchange, only Microsoft support can add them to Exchange Online's Accepted Domains. I opened a support ticket, they added the domain, and HCW completed successfully.
FWIW: I think either the Entra Cloud Sync or the HCW is supposed to automatically add the "mail" domain because, in my test environment, it was automatically created. I suspect this is an intermittent bug that only affects some users, which would explain why the solution was hard to find.
- VasilMichevJul 29, 2025MVP
Yes, enabling dirsync should provision said domain, which is what the article you cited above is all about. Support can also fix it, so there you go :)