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Migration to AzureAD
So in a nutshell, every scenario involving DirSync requires you to keep at least one Exchange box for management purposes, if you want to stay in "supported" configuration. If the plan is to ditch DirSync altogether and manage objects directly in the cloud, you will have no trouble with this approach and will still be "supported".
Make sure you understand the limitations of Azure AD though - it's not a real replacement for AD, there are no OUs for example, no GPOs, etc.
Thanks for the confirmation. Yeah, we are wanting to ditch everything on-premise in favor of the Cloud. Management wants to reduce costs.
We are a small business and while there are definitely limitations with AzureAD (like GPOs) most of what we *need* can be handled through Intune. There are some things I would like to see and now they are starting to add better support for admin templates, I see a light at the end of that tunnel. OUs are not as important for our size of a business. Nothing group memberships can not handle.