Hi All
We are coming to the end of an onPrem Ex2010 mbx migration to O365 Ex online. We also have authoritative onPrem AD, Azure AD Connect and Tenant, which I believe is a relatively standard setup.
We are keeping a hybrid Ex2016 server onPrem for remote O365 mbx creation (no mailboxes will be created directly on this server)
I am currently running our legacy build of ARS v6.9 and QC v5.3 (no O365 add on, or Internet connectivity), which is providing all our mbx management:
- Provisioning MBX via policy on New Starter
- Ongoing Management (Support team via web UI) - additional/alternative SMTP addresses on name changes. Modifying forwarding address (if default policy doesn't fit), send as and security.
- Deprovisioning MBX - send mail to manager via policy. Mark box to be deleted.
- We also do an Un-deprovsion via QC for non-perm staff that have returned within 3 months of leaving.
O365 mbx provisioning adds the following steps AFAIK:
- Add additional "on.microsoft" smtp address to the AD targetAddress attribute.
- Enable-remotemailbox
- Set licence
- Set Litigation Hold
- Set Archive
then deprovsioning:
- Remove licence
- Set mail forwarding
- remove mailbox
- give access to archive
I am also running ARS v7.2/Synch in parallel.
What I need to do is transfer the current provisioning service to ARSv7.2, and have crawled over the docs/forum but couldn't find a definitive answer. I also couldn't see any O365 exchange policies or workflows in 7.2 to support the above, as I am hoping to automate this.
Anyone in a similar setup can give me any pointers/headstart??
Many Thanks
Lee