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Exchange Online Hybrid License
Afternoon,
We have an on-premise dc with Office 365 for email. We have a Exchange 2007 server, which was our mail server before Office 365, which we continue to use to manage the mailboxes. Someone was talking to me about a Hybrid Exchange licence which allows you to use a new version of Exchange for managing Office 365 without the cost. I have had a look around and i am struggling to find some clear documentation to show me what i need to have and what i need to do for this. Does anyone have an information about this?
- Similar rules apply, but for Hybrid edition, it's made for your scenario as long as you do not host any mailbox still on-prem. http://techgenix.com/how-obtain-exchange-hybrid-edition-product-key/
Thanks for this Chris.
I did find that article but i noticed it is from 2014 and more recent articles say 2007 is no longer supported as it is EOL and not hybrid compatible. The only solution I can think of is to essentially carry out an Exchange 2007 - Exchange 2013 migration but this would involve me buying an Exchange 2013 licence.
- assuming you don't host any mailboxes you should be able to fire up a newer hybrid version and join it into your domain, there shouldn't be a "migration" if you have it there just for configuration :).
