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Nov 09, 2016

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...

MVP

AFAIK, Exchange Online is a requirement to have both Groups and Planner working

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Nov 15, 2016

jcgonzalezmartin have you seen Groups in an Exchange Hybrid setup?

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 15, 2016
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
- TonyRedmond
  MVP
  Nov 15, 2016
  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.
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    Dec 06, 2016
    TonyRedmond jcgonzalezmartin, what are the implications if Exchange Online is operational and users have a license but the primary SMTP / Mailbox is on prem and not in Exchange Online, so in actual fact Exchange Online is using the .onmicrosoft address?
    
    Would this work? I have a few customers that have Exchange on prem and no plans to move to Exchange Online in the immediate future, but would like to use Groups....