Removing the last on-premises Exchange Server isn’t for everyone though. The tooling is designed for managing remote mailboxes, distribution groups, mail contacts, accepted domains and email address policies.
The management tooling itself is only a subset of recipient management tools designed for use after migrating from Exchange your last mailboxes to Exchange Online. And, if you are building out a new greenfield environment that includes Active Directory and Azure AD Connect, you can now extend the schema and prepare the AD forest for Exchange attributes, but then only install the management tooling. Managing the attributes directly using AD tools like ADSIEDIT risks potential issues, and as such, remains unsupported.Įxchange Server 2019, Cumulative Update 12 (and above) allow for the installation of just the Management Tools, and also allow you to permanently remove ( not uninstall) your last Exchange Server 2019. The changes you make using the Exchange Server on-premises would be stored in the local AD, then Azure AD Connect synchronizes them to the cloud. Until recently, this meant that you needed to run an Exchange Server on-premises to manage the Exchange Online mailboxes, distribution groups, contacts and other associated items (like email address policies). Microsoft requires Exchange-related attributes to be set and managed properly so that they can support you if there are issues. This means that the master of your Exchange Online mailbox attributes is the local Active Directory. Preparing for your post-Exchange Active Directoryįor as long as you run Azure AD Connect to synchronize your AD users to Azure AD, and therefore Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online, you are running in a hybrid identity state. For the first release it is primarily designed for companies with less than 200 mailboxes. Knowing that not everyone prefers to manage their Exchange-related attributes with PowerShell scripts, I developed an open source GUI to help you manage your mailboxes.Ĭalled the Exchange Recipient Admin Center (ERAC), it’s a free, open source GUI that uses the new cmdlets under the hood, and is designed to run locally for you on-demand when you need it. However, because the user interface, the Exchange Admin Center, is part of Exchange Server, it means that the management tools are PowerShell-only. Microsoft released Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 12, which allows you to remove your last Exchange Server so that you can run Active Directory with Azure AD Connect and manage Exchange-related attributes in a supported way.
Introducing the Exchange Recipient Admin Center
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