Cloud Integration Consulting Services
Microsoft 365 Integration with On-premises Environments:
Hybrid Exchange Planning, Configuration and Technical Support
Microsoft Exchange Online is one of several cloud-based applications in the Microsoft 365 family of products enabled by Azure. Exchange Online provides the benefits of reduced spending for hardware infrastructure, simplified administration, on-demand capacity, high-availability, and other benefits associated with public clouds vs. on-premises IT facilities. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to operate transparently with on-premises implementations of Exchange Server, allowing you to create hybrid information systems. Hybrid networks include local resources with cloud services to create a unified IT solution.
Common motives for combining on-premises Exchange installations with Microsoft 365 Exchange Online include adherence to government or industry standards or corporate restrictions that prohibit certain mailboxes from being located off premises, performance requirements related to server virtualization or cloud connectivity, the need for more management control, the need to accommodate certain non-standard or outdated systems, corporate culture, or disaster recovery plans. In addition, hybrid deployments are typically on the critical path for migrating smoothly from a local to a Microsoft 365 Exchange Online cloud-centric model.
Whether you need a temporary hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment to carry out a full move to the cloud or you intend to create a long-term hybrid network model, Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team are available assist you with any facet of designing, configuring, administering, and debugging your hybrid solution. Progent's Exchange experts can provide as-needed assistance to help resolve challenging integration bottlenecks and also can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online implementation is completed on schedule and within.
Progent's Exchange Server consultants have extensive experience working with the Microsoft 365 support personnel to fix complex technical issues and Progent can provide on-going support to help you to maintain and refine your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online ecosystem as your requirements change over time. Progent has 20 years of background providing organizations of all sizes advanced consulting services remotely, and Progent also offers onsite expertise in metro regions throughout the U.S. (See Progent's customer testimonials.)
Hybrid Solutions for Exchange Online
A hybrid implementation of Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and onsite Exchange supports a combination local and cloud-hosted mailboxes and brings other important features such as:
- Secure mail transfer with a domain namespace and an Outlook Web address shared between on-premises and Microsoft 365 organizations
- A shared global address list (GAL) with complete recipient details
- A shared free/busy calendar
- Control of inbound and outbound mail travel across Microsoft 365 cloud organizations
- Easy transfer of mailboxes between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 Exchange Online including automatic Exchange ActiveSync profile redirection
- On-premises Exchange Administration Center (EAC) for centralized mailbox administration
- Multi-mailbox search across local and Exchange Online mailboxes
- Exchange Online Archiving for on-premises and Microsoft 365 mailboxes
- Transparent incorporation with on-premises and cloud-based implementations of Skype for Business and SharePoint
- Support for Microsoft Edge Transport server to protect against spam and enforce mail flow transport policies
- Single sign-on via Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly called Azure Active Directory Connect), password sync, or AD Federation Services
- Active Directory Federation Services allows multi-factor authentication and adheres to Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online can be deployed under several hybrid models. Careful planning with Progent's network design experts can save you considerable time and expense, since re-architecting an inappropriate implementation can be complex and distracting. Creating an efficient hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online ecosystem can be intimidating. The degree of difficulty depends on the makeup of your existing email environment and the functionality you want to achieve. Basic tasks include:
- Decide on your essential goals for your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment
- Assess your current infrastructure and modernize as needed
- Plan and validate your new system infrastructure
- Create an implementation plan and identify migration tools
- Identify local vs. cloud users
- Choose required cloud services and acquire subscriptions
- Add and verify the domain of the Microsoft 365 portal
- Update DNS records
- Use IdFix to resolve on-premises Active Directory issues identified by Microsoft Entra Connect and configure on-premises Active Directory and optionally Feration Services
- Set up SSO and Directory Sync
- Assign licenses and create Accounts/mailboxes in Microsoft 365
- Move mailboxes to PSTs and import them from PSTs to Exchange Online mailboxes
- Integrate smartphones and tablets
- Migrate public folders
- Verify services
- Tune performance
- Patch and test firewalls and proxy servers
- Train network support staff and clients
During the process of implementing a hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment, important decisions have to be made concerning on-premises network topology, mail flow, authentication, synchronization, security, performance, disaster recovery, mailbox retention rules, management, delegation, mailbox size limits, smartphone registration, integration with additional onsite and cloud-hosted applications, and other issues that impact the design and implementation of your hybrid Microsoft 365 deployment. Usually your local Exchange environment will need to be modernized and tuned.
Microsoft has developed an assortment of useful tools to help you to automate many of the steps required to create a hybrid environment for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. These include the Microsoft 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, PowerShell, the Exchange admin center, the Microsoft 365 Deployment Readiness Toolkit, and the IdFix Directory Synchronization utility. In practice, many phases of setting up a hybrid Microsoft 365 solution are subject to technical missteps. Progent's Microsoft-certified experts have worked extensively with issues associated with designing and implementing hybrid Microsoft 365 projects and can help you follow leading practices to anticipate common issues, resolve them quickly, and shield your clients from downtime.
How Progent Can Help You to Integrate Microsoft 365 with Your On-premises Network
Progent can help you in every stage of migrating to Microsoft Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and integrating your local Exchange system with cloud-hosted Exchange. Progent can help you to define your strategic goals, evaluate the suitability of your current network infrastructure, design the architecture for a hybrid environment, devise a deployment process, configure and verify a pilot deployment, install your hybrid system, centralize administrative tasks, tune performance, organize licenses, provide consulting for disaster recovery plans, validate security compliance, and deliver training for your IT staff and users. Progent can provide affordable remote consulting and troubleshooting to help you to resolve stubborn problems, or Progent can provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to help you finish your hybrid integration of Microsoft 365 on schedule and on budget.
In addition to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Microsoft offers other applications within the Microsoft 365 product family. These include Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Project Online. All of these applications can be deployed in cloud-based or hybrid implementations. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft 365 integration experts can help you to create hybrid networks that incorporate Microsoft 365 packages and on-premises infrastructure by providing advanced services such as Windows Server expertise, Exchange integration, Microsoft Teams integration support, Skype for Business maintenance and troubleshooting, SQL Server integration and application development, SharePoint design and development, Microsoft 365 integration and user training, Microsoft Project expertise, and Dynamics GP maintenance.
To assist you to manage your hybrid network, Progent can provide System Center 2016 management consulting, System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) expertise, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) consulting, Configuration Manager consulting, Virtual Machine Manager hybrid cloud configuration expertise,
Common samples of remote and on-premises consulting services offered by Progent's experts to assist organizations to integrate Microsoft 365 Exchange Online with local Exchange environments include:
- Tidy up folders before moving them into Exchange Online
- Configure authentication with Microsoft 365 and local Domain Users
- Configure Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and assign licenses
- Rebuild profiles of Windows clients
- Move Gmail accounts
- Carry out manual mailbox exports when required
- Register email accounts to Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets
- Define and implement Exchange Online archival storage
- Set up local or hybrid spam filter appliances from other vendors
- Correct Microsoft 365 Exchange Online sync problems with Active Directory Users and Active Directory Global Security Groups
- Troubleshoot Outlook autodiscover problems
- Resolve problems related to .PST and .OST files
- Define, configure, verify, and rectify mail flow
- Resolve Active Directory Federation Services and AD Connect authentication problems
- Utilize PowerShell for management, diagnostics, and email migration
- Work together with Microsoft support technicians to isolate and repair problems at Microsoft's end (e.g., a misconfigured Connector)
- Troubleshoot Microsoft 365 Message Encryption problems
- Update on-premises Exchange Servers to current versions of Exchange and upgrade equipment
- Educate HR on steps to delete accounts for departed workers
If you need help with any aspect of integrating your on-premises Exchange environment with Exchange Online, call Progent at
Other Cloud Integration Services from Progent
The choices offered for public cloud products and services are increasing continually, making it hard for information system managers to select the best cloud solution for their organization. Progent has in-depth experience helping businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, and manage hybrid networks that combine various cloud products and services from leading public clouds. Progent's cloud integration experts can assist you to assess the comparative advantages and pitfalls of competing public cloud offerings and can help you create a cloud-centric or hybrid network that provides maximum business value.
Public cloud products and services supported by Progent include:
Progent's Microsoft Azure integration experts can help you with any aspect of Microsoft Azure migration including needs definition, readiness assessment, system architecture, pilot testing, deployment, automated management, performance optimization, license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and compliance assessment. Progent can help your IT staff to set up and troubleshoot firewall appliances and VPN tunnels so that your users can safely connect to Azure services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you integrate key Microsoft technologies to run in the cloud including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint. Progent can also help your organization to set up a hybrid environment that transparently integrates physical datacenters with Azure-based services.
Progent's Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can help businesses of any size to integrate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project and Publisher into a cohesive solution that offers fast ROI and enables better business outcomes. Progent can assist you to integrate Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with additional key Microsoft platforms including SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can also assist you to resolve compatibility problems between different releases of Microsoft Office desktop and can provide live online Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 training to individual users or teams.
Progent's Amazon AWS planning and integration consultants can provide affordable online consulting to assist businesses of any size to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for expandable high-performance storage, and Glacier for value-priced archival storage. Progent can assist you with every phase of Amazon AWS integration including requirements analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, software license management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security and compliance. Progent offers advanced expertise with firewall configuration and VPN technology and can help you deploy cloud-based or hybrid ecosystems that seamlessly integrate Amazon AWS services. Progent offers occasional consulting or Progent can deliver comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing services to help you move smoothly to the Amazon AWS cloud.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is a library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to streamline their operations by automating key sales functions including listings, orders, shipments, fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's vast online selling environment and automating their sales processes, vendors can broaden their reach, lower their operating costs, accelerate response time to customers, and increase their bottom line. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) developers can work with your development staff and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training to help you shorten development time and costs and speed up your return on investment.
Progent's Google Cloud Platform planning and integration experts offer cost-effective online and onsite support to help companies of any size to move any part of their core network resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save time and equipment expense and enable access to Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can assist you with every aspect of Google Cloud Platform migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, preparedness evaluation, system design and review, testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance optimization, software license management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security strategies.
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