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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 lower investment in physical infrastructure, easier management, on-demand capacity, data protection, and other benefits inherent with public clouds instead of on-premises IT facilities. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with on-premises deployments of Exchange, enabling you to create hybrid environments. Hybrid networks combine on-premises servers and storage with cloud-based products and services to produce a unified network.
Typical reasons for integrating on-premises Exchange deployments with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online include adherence to regulatory standards or internal restrictions that prevent certain mailboxes from being moved off premises, throughput issues related to virtualization or cloud latency, the need for more administrative control, the ability to accommodate various home-grown or outdated environments, corporate culture, or disaster recovery strategies. Also, hybrid deployments are commonly on the critical path for moving safely from a local to an Exchange Online cloud-based model.
If you need a temporary hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online implementation as part of a migration to the cloud or you want to create a long-term hybrid network model, Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you with every phase of planning, integrating, managing, and troubleshooting your hybrid solution. Progent's Exchange specialists offer as-needed expertise to guide you through challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online initiative is completed on schedule and on budget.
Progent's Exchange Server consultants have valuable experience working with the Microsoft 365 support staff to resolve complex technical problems and Progent can provide on-going expertise to help you to maintain and refine your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online ecosystem as your needs evolve. Progent has 20 years of experience providing organizations of all sizes advanced consulting services remotely, and Progent can also provide onsite expertise in major metropolitan regions throughout the U.S. (Refer to Progent's client testimonials.)
Hybrid Solutions for Exchange Online
A hybrid deployment of Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and onsite Exchange supports a mix of local and cloud-hosted mailboxes and brings other important capabilities such as:
- Protected mail transfer with a domain namespace and an Outlook Web address shared between on-premises and Microsoft 365 cloud organizations
- A shared global address list with full recipient information
- A shared free/busy calendar
- Management of bi-directional mail travel across Microsoft 365 cloud organizations
- Easy movement of mailboxes between on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online including Exchange ActiveSync profile redirection
- Local Exchange Administration Center (EAC) for centralized mailbox administration
- Multi-mailbox search on local and Microsoft 365 mailboxes
- Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Archiving for local and Microsoft 365 mailboxes
- Seamless incorporation with local and/or cloud-based implementations of Skype for Business and SharePoint
- Support for Microsoft Edge Transport server to protect against spam and apply mail flow transport rules
- Single sign-on via Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly called Azure AD Connect), password sync, or Active Directory FS
- Active Directory Federation Services integration allows multi-factor authentication and meets FIPS
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online supports several hybrid architectures. Judicious planning with Progent's network design consultants can save you considerable effort and money, since re-architecting an inappropriate implementation can be difficult and disruptive. Building an optimal hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online ecosystem can be intimidating. The complexity depends on the makeup of your current email system and the functionality you want to have. Major tasks include:
- Decide on your essential requirements for your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online solution
- Evaluate your current network resources and modernize as needed
- Design and validate your new network architecture
- Design a deployment process and select migration tools
- Identify on-premises vs. Microsoft 365 clients
- Choose required cloud services and purchase subscriptions
- Add and test the domain of the cloud portal
- Update DNS records
- Use IdFix to clean up on-premises AD and AD FS issues identified by Microsoft Entra Connect and configure on-premises Active Directory and optionally Feration Services
- Configure single sign-on (SSO) and Directory Sync
- Assign licenses and create Accounts/mailboxes in Microsoft 365
- Export mailboxes to PSTs and import them from PSTs to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online mailboxes
- Integrate smartphones and tablets
- Move public folders
- Verify services
- Tune performance
- Patch and test firewalls and proxy servers
- Educate IT management team and users
In the process of configuring a hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment, important choices must made about on-premises network topology, mail flow, identity, synchronization, security, performance, backup and recovery, mailbox retention rules, administration, delegation, mailbox size restrictions, smartphone support, integration with additional onsite and cloud-hosted apps, and additional issues that impact the architecture and configuration of your hybrid Exchange Online solution. Usually your on-premises Exchange environment will have to be modernized and tuned.
Microsoft offers a variety of useful tools to assist you to simplify many of the steps needed to create a hybrid network for Microsoft 365. These utilities include the Microsoft 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, PowerShell, the Exchange admin center (EAC), the Microsoft 365 Deployment Readiness Toolkit, and the IdFix utility. Realistically, many parts of setting up a hybrid Exchange Online solution are prone to technical hiccups. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have dealt at length with issues associated with planning and rolling out hybrid Exchange Online deployments and can show you how to you follow best practices to anticipate common issues, solve them quickly, and shield your clients from service disruptions.
How Progent Can Assist You to Combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online with Your On-premises Resources
Progent can help you in every aspect of moving to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and combining your local Exchange system with cloud-hosted Exchange. Progent can assist you to prioritize your strategic goals, evaluate the suitability of your existing infrastructure, design the architecture for a hybrid solution, create a deployment process, set up and verify a pilot deployment, configure your hybrid system, centralize administrative functions, tune performance, organize licenses, provide expertise for disaster recovery plans, assess security compliance, and deliver training for your network management staff and users. Progent offers affordable online consulting and troubleshooting to help you to deal with occasional problems, or Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to help you complete your hybrid integration of Exchange Online on time and within budget.
In addition to Microsoft 365, Microsoft offers other software packages that are part of the Microsoft 365 product line. These include Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Project Online. These packages can be deployed in cloud-based or hybrid models. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft 365 configuration consultants can assist you to create hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 products and on-premises resources by delivering advanced services such as Windows Server consulting, Exchange integration, Microsoft Teams planning and deployment support, Skype for Business maintenance and troubleshooting, SQL Server configuration and development, SharePoint planning and development, Microsoft 365 integration and user training, Microsoft Project consulting, and Dynamics GP maintenance.
To assist you to administer your hybrid deployment, Progent can provide System Center 2016 consulting services, System Center Data Protection Manager consulting, SCOM support, Configuration Manager support, Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud configuration consulting,
Common samples of remote and onsite consulting services offered by Progent's experts to help businesses to integrate Microsoft 365 with local Exchange deployments include:
- Clean email before exporting them into Microsoft 365
- Configure authentication with Microsoft 365 and local Domain Users
- Configure Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and allocate licenses
- Rebuild profiles of Windows clients
- Move Gmail accounts
- Perform manual mailbox exports when necessary
- Add email accounts to Apple iOS and Android smartphones and tablets
- Specify and configure Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Archiving
- Configure on-premises or hybrid spam filter appliances from third-party vendors
- Fix Microsoft 365 synchronization problems with Active Directory Users and AD Global Security Groups
- Resolve Outlook autodiscover issues
- Fix problems related to .PST and .OST files
- Specify, implement, verify, and rectify mail flow
- Troubleshoot AD FS and AD Connect authentication issues
- Use PowerShell scripts for administration, diagnostics, and email migration
- Work together with Microsoft support technicians to identify and repair problems at Microsoft's end (e.g., a misconfigured Connector)
- Debug Microsoft 365 Message Encryption problems
- Update on-premises Exchange Servers to current versions of Exchange and upgrade equipment
- Educate Human Resources on procedure to disable accounts for terminated employees
If you are looking for assistance with any aspect of integrating your on-premises Exchange environment with Microsoft 365, call Progent at
Other Public Cloud Integration Services from Progent
The options offered for public cloud products and services are expanding rapidly, making it difficult for information system managers to determine the best cloud solution for their business. Progent has in-depth experience helping companies ranging from startups to large enterprises to design, implement, and maintain hybrid environments that integrate multiple cloud products and services from leading public clouds. Progent's cloud integration consultants can help you to evaluate the comparative benefits and pitfalls of different public cloud options and can show you how to build a cloud-based or hybrid network that delivers maximum competitive value.
Public cloud products supported by Progent include:
Progent's Azure planning and integration experts can help you with every aspect of Microsoft Azure migration such as requirements definition, prerequisites evaluation, solution architecture, pre-production testing, deployment, centralized management, performance tuning, license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance validation. Progent can help your IT staff to set up and debug firewall appliances and VPN connections so that your users can securely access to Azure resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you set up key Microsoft technologies to run in the cloud including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and Skype for Business. Progent can also assist you to set up a hybrid ecosystem that transparently combines physical datacenters with Azure services.
Progent's certified Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist companies of any size to incorporate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications such as Office Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio and OneNote into a cohesive solution that provides fast ROI and promotes better business results. Progent can help you to integrate Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with each other and with additional key Microsoft platforms such as SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent can also assist you to fix compatibility problems with various versions of Microsoft Office desktop and offers live online Office and Microsoft 365 training to individuals and teams.
Progent's Amazon AWS cloud planning and integration consultants can provide cost-effective remote consulting to help companies to access Amazon AWS cloud services such as Amazon EC2 for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for expandable high-performance storage, and Glacier for low-cost long-term archiving. Progent can help you with every phase of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design, testing, configuration, administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewalls and VPN access and can help you create all-cloud or hybrid environments that seamlessly integrate Amazon AWS resources. Progent offers occasional support or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you migrate smoothly to the Amazon AWS cloud platform.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales functions such as listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and reports. By leveraging Amazon's extensive online ecosystem and automating their sales processes, vendors can expand their reach, lower their cost of sales, accelerate response time to customers, and add to their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) consultants can work with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can cut development time and costs and get to market quickly.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform integration consultants can provide affordable remote and onsite consulting to help organizations to migrate any part of their critical IT resources to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save management hassle and hardware costs and allow the use of Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning tools. Progent can help you with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform integration including requirements analysis, readiness evaluation, system design, pilot testing, configuration, administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security.
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