Fancy moving to the ‘cloud’ for exchange hosting? Liking the idea of Office 365 but still want onsite exchange? Then look no further! Hybrid deployment and migration of exchange
is available in an Office 365 environment.
The hybrid version allows you to run an Exchange 2010 service onsite (either as the main exchange environment, or through a minimal Exchange 2010 service installed in your current 2003/2007 environment). It allows for:
- Mail routing with a shared domain (@company.name)
- Shared address book across on-premises and cloud
- Calendar sharing
- Centralized control of mail flow
- Outlook Web Access through the same URL
- Migration of onsite mailboxes to the cloud
- Centralized mailbox management
- Single sign on (identity federation) which utilizes AD FS
This is a definite plus to those wanting to move to Office 365 as the migration of mailboxes is handled by Exchange and the hybrid ‘connector’ and you can run some in the cloud whilst testing just to make sure its what you want to do.
See here for more details
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