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    • scottalanmillerS
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      Don't forget to tag posts.

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      • DustinB3403D
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        @scottalanmiller Sorry dad...

        😛

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          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

          @scottalanmiller Sorry dad...

          😛

          #tagpolice

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          • travisdh1T
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            @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

            You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.
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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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              @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

              @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

              Not my monkeys, not my circus.

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              • coliverC
                coliver
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                Sounds like it is past time to educate them on the virtues of hosted email...

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                  @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                  Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant!

                  Technically, if an email server is offline when a remote server tries to send email to it, that email is never sent and it completely depends on the sending server settings on what happens.

                  Now, that said, I do not know any email server that does not retry for at least 6 hours by default.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                    @JaredBusch said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                    @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                    @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                    Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant!

                    Technically, if an email server is offline when a remote server tries to send email to it, that email is never sent and it completely depends on the sending server settings on what happens.

                    Now, that said, I do not know any email server that does not retry for at least 6 hours by default.

                    Exactly. In theory an email server could be set not to retry or only to do so for a minute or so. But I've never heard of anyone doing that.

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @travisdh1
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                      @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                      @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                      You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                      That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                      Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

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                      • coliverC
                        coliver @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                        @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                        @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                        You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                        That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                        Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                        If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @coliver
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                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                          @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                          @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                          You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                          That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                          Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                          If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                          Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                          So many things that are setup oddly.

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @DustinB3403
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                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                            @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                            @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                            You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                            That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                            Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                            If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                            Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                            So many things that are setup oddly.

                            That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @coliver
                              last edited by

                              @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                              @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                              @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                              @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                              You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                              That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                              Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                              If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                              Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                              So many things that are setup oddly.

                              That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                              All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                              . . . .

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                              • coliverC
                                coliver @DustinB3403
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                                @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                So many things that are setup oddly.

                                That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                . . . .

                                Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @coliver
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                                  @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                  @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                  You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                  That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                  Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                  If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                  Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                  So many things that are setup oddly.

                                  That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                  All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                  . . . .

                                  Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                  My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                  Seems backwards.

                                  Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

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                                  • coliverC
                                    coliver @DustinB3403
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                                    @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                    @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                    You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                    That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                    Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                    If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                    Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                    So many things that are setup oddly.

                                    That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                    All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                    . . . .

                                    Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                    My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                    Seems backwards.

                                    Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

                                    For SSO, but you don't need onsite exchange to accomplish that.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @coliver
                                      last edited by

                                      @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                      @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                      You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                      That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                      Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                      If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                      Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                      So many things that are setup oddly.

                                      That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                      All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                      . . . .

                                      Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                      My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                      Seems backwards.

                                      Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

                                      For SSO, but you don't need onsite exchange to accomplish that.

                                      I know 🙂

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                                      • coliverC
                                        coliver @DustinB3403
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                                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                        @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                        You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                        That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                        Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                        If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                        Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                        So many things that are setup oddly.

                                        That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                        All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                        . . . .

                                        Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                        My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                        Seems backwards.

                                        Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

                                        For SSO, but you don't need onsite exchange to accomplish that.

                                        I know 🙂

                                        So really the question is why do you have onsite exchange setup in a hybrid environment? There must be a reason.

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                                          DustinB3403 @coliver
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                                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                          @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                          You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                          That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                          Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                          If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                          Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                          So many things that are setup oddly.

                                          That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                          All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                          . . . .

                                          Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                          My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                          Seems backwards.

                                          Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

                                          For SSO, but you don't need onsite exchange to accomplish that.

                                          I know 🙂

                                          So really the question is why do you have onsite exchange setup in a hybrid environment? There must be a reason.

                                          That I do not know. I honestly don't understand why a hybrid environment was decided for.

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                                            coliver @DustinB3403
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                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @coliver said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @travisdh1 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

                                            @DustinB3403 What's that quote? "Not my circus, not my problem."?

                                            You tried it their way, and were proven correct. Besides, no email server should loose any email by not being available for an entire day, let alone 6-12 hours. Email is not instant! If you want instant, you need a different communication channel.

                                            That was my point as well, the concern being that "we" would lose the ability to send / receive sales emails from clients was the original driver for trying approach 1 and 2.

                                            Email being hosted by Microsoft means we should in theory not even need a local exchange server, but we have federated services for SSO.

                                            If you have Federated services already in place then that makes it ridiculously easy to do SSO with Office 365.

                                            Yet we're hosting half, and microsoft the other half. And we still have On-site Exchange (when we have an O365 account, and all email is hosted with MS)....

                                            So many things that are setup oddly.

                                            That's really odd... Is all the mail hosted with Exchange Online? Maybe you have some hybrid accounts? Or they are using the Exchange server as a mail gateways?

                                            All of our domain accounts are setup onsite, and migrated to Exchange Online. For OWA access all request are forward back to our on-site server for AD authentication....

                                            . . . .

                                            Right, that's what you do with ADFS, you host the authoritative server for your domain. Just odd you need an onsite exchange server at all.

                                            My point is, if we have hosted exchange, why do we need to redirect everyone to an internal server, and then back to Exchange Online..

                                            Seems backwards.

                                            Let people authenticate directly to Exchange online. This hybrid setup just makes things complicated for no gain.

                                            For SSO, but you don't need onsite exchange to accomplish that.

                                            I know 🙂

                                            So really the question is why do you have onsite exchange setup in a hybrid environment? There must be a reason.

                                            That I do not know. I honestly don't understand why a hybrid environment was decided for.

                                            May be worth investigating. It may be there for a good reasons, or it may be something silly like locally hosted calendars (don't ask) that they think can't be moved to Exchange Online.

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