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Teams - Exchange on-prem

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In these days - what should one be aware of - when rolling out/setting up Teams (besides SharePoint licenses to all users) - when the org. runs Exchange 2016 On-premises ? 

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best response confirmed by Taen keren (Steel Contributor)
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Hi @Taen keren,

This is a good place to start

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/exchange-teams-interact
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/exchange-hybrid-organization
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/hybrid-deployment/set-up-office-365-groups

So, ensuring Exchange 2016 CU3+, configuring OAuth, as you said SharePoint licences, configuring Office 365 Groups

My colleague, Shabazz Darr, recently did a blog on the implementation

https://iamitgeek.com/2020/03/09/using-ms-teams-with-on-premises-exchange/

Hope that answers your question!

Best, Chris

@Taen keren This would be us - we're still on premise Exchange. These are what I've run into.

No calendar within Teams - though you can still do 'meet me' and use the meeting button in Outlook (which will install when you install the Teams desktop app)

Sending email in flow can't be done by the Outlook connector, have to use the general mail connector.

You can't use outlook.com but you can use autodiscover.firemtn.com/owa if you have it enabled for users.

No ToDo integration with Outlook and Planner. Planner comments are stored in Exchange and won't be available - no emails will go out

Out of Office settings in Outlook won't transfer over to Teams.

No access to group calendar of the team office group.

SharePoint News connectors don't work.

No sticky notes.

 

 

@Robin Nilsson - Thx - Wow - No calendar that's not good... 

 

You did the 'Oauth' and the "Groups writeback" in AD connect? 

@Taen keren Our Exchange folks did everything they could think of, we never got it to work. We'll get to hybrid Exchange eventually.... the 'meet now' functionality works for us for now.

@Robin Nilsson  - the No calendar in Teams - it must be possible to resolve this somehow - the Hybrid doesn't solve this - can anyone assist? 

There is a few articles out there with resolutions:

https://www.azure365pro.com/microsoft-teams-calendar-issue-on-hybrid-environment/

https://c7solutions.com/2019/05/teams-calendar-fails-to-on-premises-mailbox

I would personally open a ticket to Microsoft if these don't work. The calendar should be working from Exchange 2016 CU3+ as stated in the article

Best, Chris

Best, Chris

@Robin Nilsson 

 

to get the calendar in Teams with on premise exchange you require oAuth to be running. This can be done via exchange hybrid (Full) or minimal hybrid + https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/configure-oauth-authentication-between-exchange-and-exchan...

Wlll check it out when we all get back to the office - we never had time to start our hybrid setup before we all started working from home. We were going to at least set up hybrid and leave the mailboxes on prem.

I've saved this link in our planner plan, though, so once we regroup we'll take a look at it. Thanks!

@Robin Nilsson  Which Exchange version and CU are you on? 

Exchange Server 2016 CU13 June 18, 2019 15.1.1779.2

@Robin Nilsson 

Hybrid deployments require the latest Cumulative Update (CU) or Update Rollup (RU) that's available for your version of Exchange. If you can't install the latest update, the immediately previous release is also supported.

CU16 is the latest;  March 2020 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/new-features/build-numbers-and-release-dates?view=exchserv... 

Hi Robin

What about Contacts in Teams? As we use Teams for calls now, wenn really miss our Contacts in Teams. Would going from on-prem to hybrid help with that? Or is there any other way to get our Contacts into Teams?
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best response confirmed by Taen keren (Steel Contributor)
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Hi @Taen keren,

This is a good place to start

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/exchange-teams-interact
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/exchange-hybrid-organization
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/hybrid-deployment/set-up-office-365-groups

So, ensuring Exchange 2016 CU3+, configuring OAuth, as you said SharePoint licences, configuring Office 365 Groups

My colleague, Shabazz Darr, recently did a blog on the implementation

https://iamitgeek.com/2020/03/09/using-ms-teams-with-on-premises-exchange/

Hope that answers your question!

Best, Chris

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