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Remove On Premises exchange Hybrid and go fully Online
Hi Prashant.
In the scenario you described and concluded by asking "Not sure what you would gain by removing that exchange server" I would like to in turn ask what do you gain or lose by removing that server?
We want to remove as much of our On-Prem as possible and my task is to decommission our On-Prem Exchange altogether and rely solely on the cloud.
Thanks,
Carlos
Hi Carlos,
Like you have mentioned, the only gain is to have 1 / 2 less server (s) to manage.
Downsides : - have seen them happen with customers
1. When we remove the server, then the SD or L1 guys who were used to provisioning mailbox/remote-mailbox or mail user with the exchange console will have to resort to manually populating the attributes (ADSIEDIT), which can be bothersome and some SD agents who are really beginners may not be comfortable doing that.
2. have had a detailed email from the FTC (fast track center) {we had planned and executed this for one customer like that} that removing the last server may be technically feasible, but MS PSS does not support when a customer has removed the last exchange server in hybrid and they "informed" in the email that to be supported by MS PSS we would have to re-install the hybrid server again.
Personally, if you ask me i would retain 1 single machine (which these days can be a high end laptop/desktop) to be in supported model rather than have nasty surprises when calling MS when you are in deep trouble with EMAIL system for something else.
Regards,
Prashant D
I have found this thread very interesting. We are in a situation where our on prem server is so old it's no longer supported. Therefore, we've been looking at decommissioning it. So we're partly not supported anyway!
Regards
Pete
