Migrating On-Prem Distribution Groups to Exchange Online in Hybrid Mode

I have come across a number of articles on migrating distribution groups to Office 365 when you're not in hybrid mode. My situation is having hundreds of DLs on my on-prem Exchange environment that I...

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Boe Dillard

Iron Contributor

Jul 24, 2019

TonyRedmond Thanks - that is the article I was looking at. I opened a case with MS but he got distracted by something else. He seemed to think since it was synced I shouldn't worry about it which might be valid but I'm trying to avoid the day that their exchange server stops working and it depends on anything that is on prem. I'll open another case.

I did get this command to find out if it is Mastered on Premise or hosted in office 365

get-recipient -identity dlname@yourdomain.com |FL

The ones I'm upgraded are groups I created in Exchange. I wonder if those eligible ones (ones I don't see any of) are ones people created in their outlook.

jayrod

Copper Contributor

Feb 18, 2021

Boe Dillard Synced from AD are not eligible. They have to be copied to the cloud and deleted onprem.

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