The hybrid configuration of an Office 365 environment poses many challenges.
This is especially true when the organisation spans many domains and partner entities.
With 6000 user and 7000 functional mailboxes to onboard to EXO, the business process for the migration to the cloud is complex and greatly exacerbated by a shared services model that entangles the dependancies of multi-departmental shared mailboxes.
To partially mitigate the online user losing the ability to manage onprem distribution groups, we are now asking our users to manage their own DL's via the DSQuery method:
C:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow
This is a less than ideal solution but at least we can continue to provide a means for end users to manage DL members across the online \ onprem boundary.
Ideally we would have batched the users to avoid this problem but in any large organisation this is impractical, especially if the configuration was not designed with this in mind.
This is especially true when the organisation spans many domains and partner entities.
With 6000 user and 7000 functional mailboxes to onboard to EXO, the business process for the migration to the cloud is complex and greatly exacerbated by a shared services model that entangles the dependancies of multi-departmental shared mailboxes.
To partially mitigate the online user losing the ability to manage onprem distribution groups, we are now asking our users to manage their own DL's via the DSQuery method:
C:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow
This is a less than ideal solution but at least we can continue to provide a means for end users to manage DL members across the online \ onprem boundary.
Ideally we would have batched the users to avoid this problem but in any large organisation this is impractical, especially if the configuration was not designed with this in mind.
No comments:
Post a Comment