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EOP license for on premises users in a full hybrid

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Hello,
I have a question to ask.
I have to implement a full hybrid solution with an exchange 2016.
I will have some users on o365 and some users on premises.
I will point the mx record to the EOP services.
The o365 e1 licenses for users on o365 already have EOP licenses.
Since records mx also aims for on-premises users, do I have to purchase EOP licenses for these users too?
If I don't purchase EOP licenses for users on premises, will the emails be discarded and not delivered?


Thank you

 

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best response confirmed by pazzoide76 (Brass Contributor)
Solution

I think you don't need to. According to article Move mailboxes between on-premises and Exchange Online organizations in hybrid deployments - What do...

 

The Microsoft 365 or Office 365 Exchange license must be assigned only after the migration is complete. You then have 30 days to assign the license.

 

I think the license is for the Exchange Online mailboxes only once it is migrated. For the mail flow going in-and-out of your on-premise Exchange Server, HCW (Hybrid Configuration Wizard) automatically creates an inbound and outbound connector in Exchange Online Admin Center for your Exchange Server. 

 

Also this might help: 

For general overview of Exchange Hybrid, you can refer to Exchange Hybrid deployments.

For prerequisites of Exchange Hybrid, you can refer to Hybrid deployment prerequisites.

For mail flow, you can look into Transport routing in Exchange hybrid deployments.

 

 

 

@Germaum 

Hello,
thanks for your answer.
My doubt is that in the article https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/exchange/transport-routing it is said:
Route incoming Internet messages through the Exchange Online organization
The following steps and diagrams illustrate the inbound message path that occur in your hybrid deployment if you decide to point your MX record to the EOP service in the Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization. The message path differs depending on whether you choose to enable centralized mail transport.
Important
You may need to purchase EOP licenses for each on-premises mailbox that receives messages that are first delivered to EOP and then routed through the Exchange Online organization. Contact your Microsoft reseller for more information.

@Germaum 

Hello, I will have to keep both users on premise and on o365.

I won't migrate all users.

@pazzoide76 Thanks for your question. It's the same question that we need to solve. Becasuse in this Microsoft section are reported that if we need to route the incoming messages throught EOP, we have to purchase a license:

 

"You may need to purchase EOP licenses for each on-premises mailbox that receives messages that are first delivered to EOP and then routed through the Exchange Online organization. Contact your Microsoft reseller for more information."

 

Then, in hybrid deploy where we have some mailboxes on the on-premise exchange server, and some others in the Exchange Online. We have really to purchase an EOP license for all users still in the on-premise server, if we decide to point the MX record to EOP? If yes, it's ridicoulus, because we have just purchase a premium license for all users, but as Microsoft said, we add the license only after the user are migrated to Exchange Online.

 

Thank you for all answers

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best response confirmed by pazzoide76 (Brass Contributor)
Solution

I think you don't need to. According to article Move mailboxes between on-premises and Exchange Online organizations in hybrid deployments - What do...

 

The Microsoft 365 or Office 365 Exchange license must be assigned only after the migration is complete. You then have 30 days to assign the license.

 

I think the license is for the Exchange Online mailboxes only once it is migrated. For the mail flow going in-and-out of your on-premise Exchange Server, HCW (Hybrid Configuration Wizard) automatically creates an inbound and outbound connector in Exchange Online Admin Center for your Exchange Server. 

 

Also this might help: 

For general overview of Exchange Hybrid, you can refer to Exchange Hybrid deployments.

For prerequisites of Exchange Hybrid, you can refer to Hybrid deployment prerequisites.

For mail flow, you can look into Transport routing in Exchange hybrid deployments.

 

 

 

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