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Decommission Hybrid Exchange 2013 / O365 with AD Sync and ADFS
Hi all, I've been reading for some time about decommissioning a hybrid exchange 2013 environment. Our scenario; We have a new customer and their wish is to get rid of as many servers as poss...
That's correct. The only *supported* method of managing Exchange-related objects and their attributes is via the Exchange tools. The catch here is "supported". If you don't care about staying into a supported configuration, and you know what you are doing, you can manage them just fine via the AD tools. But if you run into an issue, Microsoft can potentially deny you support.
VasilMichev Thanks for your reply, do you know the technical reason for this? Objects exist in O365 right? What makes is 'look' for on prem details?
So only option to get rid of ADFS and Exchange servers is create new local AD-domain, setup new tenant, perform tenant to tenant migration and setup AD Connect from this new AD-domain?
Cheers.
That wont make a difference. Every scenario involving AAD Connect has the same restrictions in terms of supportability. It's not a technical restriction, again you can manage the attributes just fine with other tools. But if you want to be in supported configuration, you need to manage Exchange related objects is via the Exchange tools.
