Expanding the environment on-premises will involve mailbox moves, so potentially your better option might be migrating them straight to Exchange Online rather than to a so-called staging server first.Īdditionally, if the hope is to offload migration load to “Hybrid Servers” by putting these as the egress point for migrations, you might be disappointed.
That might mean adding additional capacity if it already has far too little – but it might actually be the case that migration to Exchange Online will relieve stress on the current environment. If you’ve got issues with your current Exchange implementation, then fix those issues if you don’t believe it will survive a migration. Installing an Exchange Hybrid Server won’t provide you better performance or flexibility Areas like Microsoft Teams integration with Exchange 20 won’t become available to your mailboxes on Exchange 2013 – you’d need to move all mailboxes to the newer version of Exchange – so installing a newer version with the hope of seeing additional benefits will provide a fruitless task. The same goes for newer versions – whether you run Exchange Server 2013, 2016 or 2019 – you won’t see additional benefits from adding a newer version of Exchange Server. Millions upon millions of mailboxes have been migrated straight for Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online without additional “Hybrid Servers”. The Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard supports Exchange Server 2010 and works well to support migrations to Exchange Online. By Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3, Hybrid was – and is – similar to what you see and use today. The most clear and obvious reason for not installing an Exchange Hybrid server is that you already have one – or probably, more than one! Exchange Server 2010 was built for Office 365, and served as the foundations for Office 365 in it’s earlier form, and the launched version of Exchange Online. Exchange 2010 and newer already have Hybrid baked in To clear things up, here’s five reasons why you shouldn’t do this.
Sure – many of your reading this will be wondering why I’m even stating the obvious, but a significant number of consultants and IT professionals configuring Hybrid for an Exchange migration to Office 365 install an additional server (or two) to support a Hybrid migration. It may surprise you to hear that if you are running a supported version of Exchange Server, you don’t need to install an Exchange Hybrid Server.
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