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Using Office 365 Groups without Exchange Online
Hi
My company would like to start using Planner and SharePoint Group sites (and OneDrive group documents). But since we are using another email solution (at this time) we plan not to enable Exchange Online licenses to our Office 365 users.
1) If no solution on: Do anyone know if it´s possible to deactivate a O365 user personal-mailbox, but give access to o365 group mailboxes?
2) I see that o365 Group member administration is tight connected to "Exchange online". This is not a good thing given that we plan to not enable Exchange Online licenses to our Office 365 users. Is it any plan to disconnect O365 Group member administration from Exchange Online?
3) If a user without Exchange Online license in Planner in the ... dropdown menu he/she will have possibility to eg. click on "Conversation". The user will then get a NOT Nice web-page telling "Something went wrong". These menu-elements pointing to Exchange Online should have been hidden if the user is not assigned a Exchange Online license.
Do anyone have thoughts around this?
Br. Rune
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- AFAIK, Exchange Online is a requirement to have both Groups and Planner working
jcgonzalezmartin have you seen Groups in an Exchange Hybrid setup?
Not in my case, TonyRedmond and cfiessinger can share more insights here about Groups in a hybrid architecture....I don't think at this time an hybrid architecture could be a solution for this scenario
Perhaps consider turning on Exchange Online for your users and setting up automatic forwarders to your official email addresses?
