God Damn Exchange Hybrid Server….. advice?
Hi. I was an Exchange 2003 MCSE back in the day when I was sys admin so was a dab hand at everything Exchange back in the day!
About a decade ago our business moved to MS365. Sys admin at time was involved in the project and no longer with us. We had to keep a hybrid Exchange server on our local LAN with no mailboxes so that attributes could flow between on-premise AD and MS365.
Auditing our estate in advance of Cyber Essentials Plus Audit next week. Find hybrid server - Exchange Server 2019 - version 15.2.1544.036 - CU14 October 25. This is now EoL and looks like I need to upgrade to Exchange Server SE.
Found this step by step guide:
Seems pretty straightforward…?
Any gotcha’s I should be aware of? Obviously would snapshot before starting - local Exchange server is a VM.
No mailboxes, no queues, no transport. It’s just used to create mailboxes which sync up to MS365.
Licensing not required as it’s not holding mailboxes like 2019?
Plan to upgrade this initially then work out if we can get shot of it. Tried last year, and it’s still here.
Thanks in advance.