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Microsoft 365 Integration with On-premises Environments:
Hybrid Exchange Planning, Deployment and Troubleshooting
Microsoft Exchange Online is one of several cloud-hosted applications in the Microsoft 365 family of products enabled by Microsoft Azure. Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower spending for hardware infrastructure, simplified administration, dynamic capacity, high-availability, plus other benefits associated with public clouds instead of local IT facilities. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to operate transparently with local deployments of Exchange Server, enabling you to build hybrid information systems. Hybrid networks combine local resources with cloud-based services to create a cohesive IT solution.
Typical reasons for integrating on-premises Exchange installations with Exchange Online are compliance with government or industry standards or corporate policies that prevent certain mailboxes from being hosted off site, performance requirements associated with server virtualization or cloud connectivity, the desire for greater administrative control, the ability to accommodate various non-standard or legacy systems, corporate culture, or business continuity strategies. Also, hybrid systems are commonly implemented for migrating smoothly from an on-premises to an Exchange Online cloud-centric model.
Whether you need a transitional hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment on the way to a full move to Azure or you intend to build a long-term hybrid network model, Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can help you with every stage of designing, integrating, managing, and debugging your hybrid solution. Progent's Exchange consultants can deliver occasional assistance to help resolve stubborn technical issues and also can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange Online implementation is performed on schedule and within.
Progent's Exchange specialists have valuable experience teaming with the Microsoft 365 support personnel to resolve complicated technical issues and Progent offers on-going support services to help your business to manage and enhance your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online solution as your needs change over time. Progent is a Microsoft Partner with two decades of experience delivering companies of all sizes high-level consulting support online, and Progent can also provide on-premises support in major metropolitan regions across the U.S. (See Progent's customer testimonials.)
Hybrid Integration Services for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online
A hybrid implementation of Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange allows you to have a mix of local and cloud mailboxes and brings other key features including:
- Secure mail transfer with a domain namespace and an Outlook Web address shared between local and Microsoft 365 cloud organizations
- A shared global address list (GAL) with complete recipient information
- A shared availability calendar
- Control of bi-directional mail flow across Microsoft 365 cloud organizations
- Easy movement of mailboxes between on-premises Exchange infrastructure and Microsoft 365 Exchange Online including automatic Exchange ActiveSync profile redirection
- Local Exchange Administration Center for centralized mailbox administration
- Multi-mailbox search across on-premises and Exchange Online mailboxes
- Microsoft 365 Archiving for on-premises and cloud-hosted mailboxes
- Seamless integration with on-premises and Azure-based deployments of Skype for Business and SharePoint server
- Support for Microsoft Edge Transport server to protect against junk mail and apply mail flow transport rules
- Single sign-on (SSO) via Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly called Azure Active Directory Connect), password sync, or AD FS
- AD Federation Services integration allows multi-factor authentication and meets Federal Information Processing Standards
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online can be deployed under a variety of hybrid architectures. Careful planning with Progent's solution design experts can save you considerable effort and money, since re-structuring a poorly conceived implementation can be complex and distracting. Building an optimal hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online solution can be intimidating. The complexity depends on the design of your existing email system and the functionality you intend to achieve. Major tasks include:
- Define your essential goals for your hybrid Exchange Online solution
- Evaluate your current infrastructure and modernize as needed
- Plan and validate your new network infrastructure
- Create a deployment process and select migration tools
- Identify local vs. cloud clients
- Choose appropriate Microsoft 365 services and purchase subscriptions
- Add and test the domain of the Microsoft 365 portal
- Update DNS records
- Use IdFix to clean up on-premises AD and AD FS errors found by Microsoft Entra Connect and configure on-premises Active Directory and optionally Feration Services
- 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 Exchange Online mailboxes
- Register smartphones and tablets
- Move public folders
- Activate and Test services
- Tune performance
- Patch and test firewalls and proxy servers
- Educate network management staff and users
During the course of implementing a hybrid Exchange Online deployment, important decisions have to be made concerning on-premises network architecture, mail flow, authentication, synchronization, compliance, performance, disaster recovery, archive policies, management, delegation, size limits, mobile device support, integration with other on-premises and cloud-hosted applications and services, and other areas that impact the architecture and configuration of your hybrid Microsoft 365 solution. Typically your on-premises Exchange environment will have to be updated.
Microsoft has developed an assortment of tools to assist you to simplify most of the steps needed to create a hybrid network for Microsoft 365. These tools include the Microsoft 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), PowerShell, the Exchange admin center (EAC), the Microsoft 365 Deployment Readiness Toolkit, and the IdFix tool. Realistically, many parts of setting up a hybrid Exchange Online solution are subject to technical missteps. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have worked extensively with issues associated with designing and implementing hybrid Microsoft 365 deployments and can help you follow leading practices to avoid problems, overcome them quickly, and protect your users from service disruptions.
How Progent Can Help You to Combine Microsoft 365 with Your On-premises Network
Progent's consultants can assist you in every stage of moving to Microsoft 365 and combining your on-premises Exchange implementation with Exchange Online. Progent can help you to prioritize your operational objectives, assess the suitability of your existing infrastructure, design the topology for a hybrid solution, create an implementation process, configure and verify a pilot deployment, install your hybrid network, automate management tasks, optimize performance, organize licenses, provide expertise for business continuity plans, validate security compliance, and deliver training for your network management team and clients. Progent offers affordable online consulting and troubleshooting to help you to deal with stubborn problems, or Progent can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to ensure you finish your hybrid deployment of Exchange Online on time and within budget.
Besides Exchange Online, Microsoft offers other applications that are part of 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 models. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft 365 configuration consultants can help you to create hybrid solutions that incorporate Microsoft 365 packages and on-premises infrastructure by delivering services such as Windows Server consulting, Exchange integration, Microsoft Teams migration consulting, Skype for Business maintenance and troubleshooting, SQL Server integration and software development, SharePoint planning and integration, Microsoft 365 configuration and user 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) consulting, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) consulting, Configuration Manager support, Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud configuration consulting,
Common samples of remote and on-premises consulting support provided by Progent to help businesses to integrate Exchange Online with on-premises Exchange environments include:
- Tidy up email before moving them into Exchange Online
- Configure authentication with Microsoft 365 and local Domain Users
- Configure Microsoft 365 and assign licenses
- Rebuild profiles of Windows clients
- Migrate Gmail accounts
- Carry out manual mailbox migrations when necessary
- Add accounts to Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets
- Specify and implement Microsoft 365 Exchange Online archival storage
- Configure local or hybrid spam filter appliances from other vendors
- Correct Exchange Online synchronization problems with Active Directory clients and AD Global Security Groups
- Troubleshoot Outlook autodiscover problems
- Fix problems related to .PST and .OST files
- Specify, configure, verify, and rectify mail flow
- Resolve Active Directory Federation Services and AD Connect identity management issues
- Deploy PowerShell scripts for management, diagnostics, and email migration
- Work with Microsoft staff to isolate and resolve issues at Microsoft's end (for example, a misconfigured Connector)
- Troubleshoot message encryption problems
- Update on-premises Exchange Servers to current versions of Exchange and upgrade equipment
- Train Human Resources on steps to delete accounts for terminated employees
If you need help with any facet of interfacing your local Exchange system with Exchange Online, call Progent at
Additional Public Cloud Integration Services from Progent
The options offered for public cloud services are expanding continually, making it hard for information system managers to select the right cloud strategy for their business. Progent has in-depth experience helping companies ranging from startups to large enterprises to plan, implement, and manage hybrid environments that integrate multiple cloud services from major public cloud providers. Progent's cloud integration experts can assist you to understand the relative benefits and pitfalls of competing public cloud options and can help you build a cloud-centric or hybrid ecosystem that delivers maximum business value.
Public cloud products and services supported by Progent's consultants include:
Progent's Microsoft Azure integration consultants can help you with every aspect of Azure cloud migration such as needs analysis, readiness assessment, solution design, pre-production testing, implementation, automated management, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security planning, and regulatory compliance assessment. Progent can help your IT staff to configure and debug firewalls and VPN tunnels so that your users can safely connect to Azure-based services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you set up critical Microsoft technologies to run in the cloud including Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL and SharePoint. Progent can also assist you to set up a hybrid ecosystem that seamlessly combines on-premises datacenters with Azure services.
Progent's certified Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help businesses to integrate Microsoft Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps such as Excel, Office Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Access, Visio and OneNote into a cohesive solution that offers quick ROI and enables better business results. Progent can help your company to integrate Office or Microsoft 365 applications with one another and with additional key Microsoft platforms including SharePoint, Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also assist you to resolve compatibility problems between various versions of Microsoft Office desktop and can provide customized online Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 instruction to individual users and groups.
Progent's Amazon AWS cloud planning and integration consultants offer affordable online consulting to assist companies to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon S3 for scalable low-latency storage, and Amazon Glacier for value-priced long-term archiving. Progent can help you with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design and review, testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance tuning, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security and compliance. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN connections and can show you how to deploy all-cloud or hybrid networking models that efficiently incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services. Progent offers as-needed expertise or Progent can deliver project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to help you move smoothly to the Amazon AWS cloud.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that allows Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their business processes by automating crucial sales activities including listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's extensive online selling environment and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their market, lower their operating costs, accelerate response time to customers, and add to their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service developers can collaborate with your development staff and provide programming, workflow integration, project management support, and mentoring so you can shorten development time and expedite your ROI.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform integration consultants can provide cost-effective online and onsite support to help companies to move any part of their core network infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform services. This can save time and equipment costs and enable access to Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, administration, performance optimization, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance.
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