Get to grips with Office 365 through in-depth tutorials and insights from leading experts. Expert Office 365 is written by a dedicated team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs), and captures advice, best practices, and insights from their experience in the field. This chapter Introducing and Preparing for Exchange Hybrid will cover the underpinning aspects of an Exchange hybrid deployment.

A brief overview of the alternative Exchange Online (EXO) migration methods will be provided, to demonstrate why enterprises will choose to deploy Hybrid. This is required, as there is perceived complexity with Hybrid. Typically, this is not the case, as existing issues in a given environment are what will cause most of the issues.

This chapter will cover:

• Introduction
• Planning and Preparations
• Office Client
• Authentication
• Which Flavor of Hybrid?
• What Servers Will Provide Hybrid Services
• CAS Namespace Planning
• Network Prerequisites
• Exchange Hybrid Deployment

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