Cloud Integration Solutions
Microsoft 365 Integration with On-premises Environments:
Hybrid Exchange Planning, Deployment and Technical Support
Microsoft Exchange Online is one of Microsoft's cloud-based applications included in the Microsoft 365 family supported by Azure. Exchange Online provides the benefits of reduced spending for physical infrastructure, simplified management, on-demand capacity, data protection, and other advantages inherent with public clouds instead of local datacenters. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to work transparently with on-premises implementations of Exchange Server, allowing you to build hybrid information systems. Hybrid networks include local resources with cloud-based products and services to create a cohesive IT solution.
Common motives for combining on-premises Exchange installations with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online are compliance with government or industry mandates or business restrictions that prevent certain mailboxes from being located off site, performance issues associated with virtualization or cloud latency, the desire for greater management flexibility, the ability to support certain home-grown or outdated systems, corporate culture, or business continuity plans. In addition, hybrid deployments are commonly implemented for moving smoothly from an on-premises to a Microsoft 365 Exchange Online cloud-centric environment.
If you need a transitional hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online implementation on the way to a migration to the cloud or you want to create a long-term hybrid ecosystem, Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team are available assist you with every stage of planning, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting your hybrid system. Progent's Exchange specialists offer as-needed expertise to guide you through challenging integration issues and also can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange Online implementation is completed on time and within.
Progent's Exchange Server consultants have extensive experience teaming with the Microsoft 365 technical support personnel to fix complicated technical problems and Progent can provide as-needed expertise to assist you to maintain and refine your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online ecosystem as your needs evolve. Progent has 20 years of background providing organizations of all sizes high-level consulting services remotely, and Progent also offers onsite expertise in major metropolitan regions across the U.S. (See Progent's customer testimonials.)
Hybrid Solutions for Exchange Online
A hybrid deployment of Exchange Online and onsite Exchange supports a combination local and cloud mailboxes and offers other key capabilities including:
- Secure mail routing with a domain namespace and an Outlook Web address shared between on-premises and Microsoft 365 networks
- A shared global address list (GAL) with complete recipient details
- A shared availability calendar
- Management of inbound and outbound mail flow across Microsoft 365 networks
- Easy transfer of mailboxes between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 including automatic Exchange ActiveSync profile redirection
- On-premises Exchange Administration Center for centralized mailbox administration
- Multi-mailbox search on on-premises and Exchange Online mailboxes
- Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Archiving for local and Microsoft 365 mailboxes
- Transparent integration with local and/or Azure-based implementations of Skype for Business and SharePoint server
- Support for Microsoft Edge Transport server to filter out spam and enforce mail flow transport policies
- Single sign-on via Azure Active Directory Connect, password synchronization, or Active Directory Federation Services
- Active Directory FS integration allows multi-factor authentication and adheres to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online supports a variety of hybrid models. Thorough analysis with Progent's network design experts can save you considerable effort and expense, since re-architecting an inappropriate deployment can be difficult and distracting. Creating an efficient hybrid Microsoft 365 ecosystem can be intimidating. The complexity depends on the design of your existing email environment and the features you hope to achieve. Basic tasks include:
- Determine your essential goals for your hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment
- Evaluate your existing network resources and modernize as needed
- Design and test your new network infrastructure
- Design a deployment plan and select migration tools
- Identify on-premises vs. cloud users
- Choose appropriate Microsoft 365 services and purchase licenses
- Add and verify the domain of the cloud portal
- Change/Add DNS records
- Use IdFix to resolve on-premises AD errors reported by Azure AD Connect and configure on-premises Active Directory and optionally AD FS
- Set up single sign-on and Directory Sync
- Assign licenses and create Accounts/mailboxes in Microsoft 365
- Export mailboxes to PSTs and move them from PSTs to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online mailboxes
- Register smartphones and tablets
- Move public folders
- Activate and Test services
- Optimize performance
- Update and test firewalls and proxy servers
- Train network management staff and clients
During the process of implementing a hybrid Exchange Online deployment, important decisions have to be made concerning on-premises network topology, mail flow, identity, synchronization, security, latency, backup and recovery, mailbox retention rules, administration, delegation, size limits, smartphone registration, integration with additional onsite and cloud-hosted apps, and other areas that impact the architecture and implementation of your hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment. Usually your on-premises Exchange installation will have to be modernized and tuned.
Microsoft provides an assortment of tools to help you to automate most of the tasks needed to build a hybrid environment for Exchange Online. These include the Microsoft 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), PowerShell, the Exchange admin center, the Microsoft 365 Deployment Readiness Toolkit, and the IdFix utility. Realistically, many parts of configuring a hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment are prone to technical missteps. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have dealt at length with problems associated with planning and rolling out hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online projects and can show you how to you follow leading practices to avoid common issues, solve them efficiently, and shield your clients from downtime.
How Progent Can Assist You to Integrate Exchange Online with Your Local Resources
Progent's consultants can help you in every aspect of moving to Microsoft 365 and combining your local Exchange system with cloud-hosted Exchange. Progent can assist you to define your strategic goals, evaluate the suitability of your existing network infrastructure, design the topology for a hybrid environment, create an implementation plan, set up and test a pilot system, configure your hybrid system, automate management functions, tune performance, manage licenses, provide consulting for disaster recovery plans, validate security compliance, and provide training for your network management staff and users. Progent offers cost-effective online consulting services to assist you to deal with occasional problems, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to help you complete your hybrid deployment of Microsoft 365 on time and on budget.
Besides Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Microsoft offers other software packages within the Microsoft 365 family. Included among these are Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint Online, and Project Online. These applications can be integrated with one another in cloud-centric or hybrid implementations. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft 365 integration experts can assist you to create hybrid solutions that incorporate Microsoft 365 packages and on-premises resources by delivering services such as Windows Server expertise, Exchange expertise, Microsoft Teams planning and deployment consulting, Skype for Business maintenance and debugging, SQL Server configuration and development, SharePoint design and integration, Microsoft 365 integration and training, Microsoft Project consulting, and Dynamics GP support.
To help you to manage your hybrid deployment, Progent offers System Center 2016 deployment help, System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) expertise, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) expertise, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) support, Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud configuration expertise,
Typical samples of remote and on-premises consulting support offered by Progent to assist businesses to integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online with on-prem Exchange environments include:
- Clean folders before exporting them into Microsoft 365 Exchange Online
- Configure authentication with Microsoft 365 and local Domain Users
- Configure Exchange Online and allocate purchased licenses
- Reconstruct profiles of Windows clients
- Move Google Gmail accounts
- Perform manual mailbox migrations when required
- Add accounts to iOS and Android smartphones and tablets
- Plan and configure Microsoft 365 Exchange Online archival storage
- Set up local or hybrid spam filter appliances from third-party vendors
- Fix Microsoft 365 Exchange Online synchronization issues with AD Users and Active Directory Global Security Groups
- Resolve Outlook autodiscover problems
- Fix problems with .PST and .OST files
- Specify, implement, verify, and troubleshoot mail flow
- Troubleshoot AD FS and AD Connect identity management issues
- Use PowerShell for administration, diagnostics, and email migration
- Work together with Microsoft staff to identify and resolve problems at Microsoft's end (for example, a misconfigured Connector)
- Debug Microsoft 365 Message Encryption problems
- Update on-premises Exchange Servers to current versions of Exchange and upgrade equipment
- Educate HR on procedure to delete email accounts for departed employees
If you are looking for assistance with any aspect of interfacing your local Exchange environment with Microsoft 365, call Progent at
Other Public Cloud Integration Services from Progent
The choices available for public cloud products and services are expanding continually, making it a serious challenge for information system managers to select the right cloud strategy for their business. Progent has worked extensively assisting companies ranging from startups to large enterprises to design, deploy, and maintain hybrid environments that integrate various cloud services from major public cloud providers. Progent's cloud integration experts can assist you to assess the comparative benefits and shortcomings of competing public cloud offerings and can show you how to build a cloud-based or hybrid ecosystem that provides maximum competitive value.
Public cloud products supported by Progent's consultants include:
Progent's Microsoft Azure cloud planning and integration consultants can assist you with any stage of Azure cloud migration such as needs definition, readiness evaluation, system design, pre-production testing, implementation, automated management, performance tuning, license controls, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and compliance validation. Progent can assist you to configure and debug firewall appliances and VPN connections so your users can safely connect to Azure-based resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you set up critical Microsoft platforms to run in Azure including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL and SharePoint. Progent can also help you to set up a hybrid ecosystem that seamlessly combines on-premises datacenters with Azure services.
Progent's Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist companies to incorporate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps including Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Access, Visio and Publisher into a cohesive productivity solution that offers fast return on investment and enables improved business results. Progent can assist you to integrate Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 applications with each other and with additional key Microsoft technologies including SharePoint Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also help you to fix compatibility issues with various versions of Office desktop and offers customized online Office and Microsoft 365 instruction to individual users or teams.
Progent's Amazon AWS integration experts offer affordable remote support to help businesses to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Amazon EC2 for virtual machine hosting, Amazon S3 for scalable low-latency storage, and Glacier for low-cost archival storage. Progent can help you with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, system design, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security. Progent can provide advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN access and can show you how to create cloud-based or hybrid ecosystems that efficiently incorporate Amazon AWS services. Progent offers occasional expertise or Progent can provide project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you migrate efficiently to the Amazon AWS cloud platform.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service is an integrated library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating key sales functions including listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's vast online selling environment and automating their sales, merchants can expand their market, lower their operating costs, accelerate response time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can collaborate with your development team and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can cut development time and get to market quickly.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consultants offer affordable online and on-premises support to assist companies of any size to migrate any portion of their core IT resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and hardware expense and enable the use of Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning tools. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design, testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security strategies.
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Linux, Windows Technology Professional
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