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Benefits of assigning mailboxes in Office 365?
We are starting to offer Office 365 to our users. However, we are not enabling mailboxes. I know we are missing out on a TON of capabilities. I'm trying to convince our Exchange admin to take a look into this.
I've scoured the internet for the last couple of hours to try to give him a comprehensive list of the things enabling the mailbox will do/allow. I started a list, but I am hoping there is something more robust out there that I can use instead.
Another note, even if he does decide to enable it, we just moved to Exchange 2016 on-prem. He is not migrating anything to Exchange Online at this time. I understand we can somehow connect our mailboxes online with our on-prem Exchange. Does this fact make my above question moot? Can we still use meetings in Teams, get notifications from Planner (et al), email O365 groups?
TIA
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- Well, if you have deployed Exchange 2016 in your organizations and you want to "connect" with Office 365, you need to plan for a Hybrid Exchange OnPrem - Online architecture that will allow you to have Mailboxes both in Office 365 and in your Exchange OnPrem. In regards of Teams support, a Hybrid deployment is supported and you will be able to use Teams with some limitations
