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The question nobody dares to ask! How do you create a new user in a hybrid environment.
The best practice is whatever works for your user management workflows. You can create it either way. In a hybrid you can move mailboxes back and forth whether they were created on-prem or in the cloud.
One caveat with New-RemoteMailbox is that it can't do Shared mailboxes. Those you need to create on-prem and then move, or, create in EXO as a user mailbox and then convert to Shared. Either way, same result.
Paul Cunningham wrote:One caveat with New-RemoteMailbox is that it can't do Shared mailboxes. Those you need to create on-prem and then move, or, create in EXO as a user mailbox and then convert to Shared. Either way, same result.
For the latter, wouldn't that skip the creation of the AD user for the shared mailbox? Sure one might ask why have it.
Martin Meraner wrote:
Paul Cunningham wrote:One caveat with New-RemoteMailbox is that it can't do Shared mailboxes. Those you need to create on-prem and then move, or, create in EXO as a user mailbox and then convert to Shared. Either way, same result.
For the latter, wouldn't that skip the creation of the AD user for the shared mailbox? Sure one might ask why have it.
No. Either New-RemoteMailbox, wait, then convert to Shared in the cloud. Or New-Mailbox with -Shared, and then move to the cloud.
Either way, there's still a user object in AD.
