[Updated] How are email addresses created for Office 365 Mailboxes?

22nd of October, 2017 / / No Comments

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Background

Over the past few weeks, I have been doing some Cloud-Only Office 365 deployments using Azure AD Connect . As you might imagine, this deployment is abit different to the Hybrid Office 365 deployment.
One of the things that got me thinking was, how are the email addresses created for my Office 365 mailboxes? As I was synchronising objects from my on-premises Active Directory, this question held the answer to what values I needed to change in my on-premises Active Directory user object, to get the desired email addresses populated in the Office 365 mailbox that will be created for it.… [Keep reading] “[Updated] How are email addresses created for Office 365 Mailboxes?”

Deploying Cloud-only mailboxes in Office 365 using On-Premises Directory objects

8th of October, 2017 / / No Comments

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In this blog, I will show you how to create Cloud-only mailboxes in Exchange Online (Exchange Online is the messaging part of Office 365) that are bound to objects synchronised from your on-premises Active Directory. The Cloud-only approach is different to the Hybrid approach because you do not need an Exchange server deployed in your on-premises environment.
There are a few reasons why you would want to link your Cloud-only mailboxes to your on-premises Active Directory.… [Keep reading] “Deploying Cloud-only mailboxes in Office 365 using On-Premises Directory objects”