Exchange Hybrid

Exchange – Cloud archive mailbox access will be removed from OWA on-premises mailboxes

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This is change will only impact customers in Exchange hybrid configuration and using cloud archive feature. Starting May 12, 2025, access to the cloud archive mailbox for an on-premises mailbox will not longer be possible when accessing using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web). Access to the cloud archive will not […]

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Exchange Online – Outlook Web Access now also redirect to on-premises

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If you work with Exchange and Exchange Online in hybrid mode, you already know that when a mailbox is moved to Exchange Online, the on-premises Exchange redirect/notify the user to access Exchange Online Outlook Web Access URL when using the ‘old’/on-premises OWA URL. Well, now Exchange Online can do the same for mailboxes still on

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Exchange Online – Hybrid Configuration Wizard Could not convert string to DateTimeOffset error

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As you are now aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been recently updated (see https://t.co/p3WYcmBpGD) to reach a new major version(17.xxx) Well, after updating the HCW to the latest version, you may face the following issue when you try to run it to configure or update your Exchange Hybrid Configuration when connecting to

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Exchange – A new major version of the Exchange Hybrid configuration Wizard is now available

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As you know by now, you can setup Exchange in hybrid configuration to integrate your Exchange on-premises infrastructure with Exchange Online; this is done using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) which is available for download and provide a wide range of configuration options (from lightweight to complete/classic configuration). Well, good new, the HCW just got

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Exchange – The Exchange Hybrid Agent is now in GA

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As you  may be aware the Exchange Hybrid Agent has been in preview fro quite some time (see https://t.co/dAB3IKJw1z). The Hybrid Agent is aimed to provide a simpler way to implement Exchange Hybrid between Exchange on-premises and Exchange Online. Well, good news, the Hybrid Agent is now generally available (GA). Firs thing to know is

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Exchange – New capabilities in for HCW Hybrid Agent

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As you may be aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is evolving and is currently proposing an ‘Hybrid Agent’ mode in preview (see https://t.co/lRmjI6r6Dv). Well, the Hybrid Agent preview has been updated and is now providing more capability: Multi agent support: you can now deploy more than one Hybrid Agent in your environment Manual

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Exchange – New Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard in preview

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A new Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is now available in preview. This new Hybrid Configuration Wizard is called either Hybrid Agent or Modern Hybrid to differentiate it from the current HCW version. This new HCW has a lower inbound/outbound connectivity requirements and use an agent, making it more appropriate for install in DMZ. The

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Exchange – An updated Hybrid Configuration Wizard adds additional configuration transfer settings

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As you may be aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been able to migrate some organization configuration settings (ActiveSync Mailbox Policy, Mobile Device Mailbox Policy, Retention Policy and Tag) to Exchange Online since June 2018. Now, an updated version is coming and will be able to add additional organization settings like: ActiveSync Device

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Exchange – You can now manage remote shared mailboxes from On-Premises Exchange

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With Exchange 2013 CU 21 (https://support.microsoft.com/help/4099855) or Exchange 2016 CU 10 (https://support.microsoft.com/help/4099852) you can now directly create and manage remote shared mailboxes from your On-Premises Exchange with PowerShell. Before taking advantage of these new PowerShell commands (see below) you first must prepare you Active Directory (which from my point of view should be executed anyway

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Exchange Online – Exchange Hybrid Organization Transfer

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You know already that you can integrate your Exchange On-Premises with Exchange Online in an Exchange Hybrid configuration, allowing a consistent user experience wherever the mailbox is hosted. But there was still few things missing. Few of them are (or were) the retention policies / retention tags, OWA / Mobile /ActiveSync policies which needed to

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