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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 Excha...
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
Hybrid isn't an option here. The situation is that you need accounts with Exchange Online mailboxes to be functional before you can use those accounts to access Teams and Planner. Hybrid accounts can't be used.
Perhaps consider turning on Exchange Online for your users and setting up automatic forwarders to your official email addresses?
