Office 365 Complete Guide to Hybrid Deployments: October 2015

Email is often the workload that companies want to move first to the cloud. If you're running on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers, you might consider creating a hybrid environment to ease the task. Hybrid means that part of the organization remains on-premises while some moves into the cloud and operates within Office 365 on Exchange Online servers. A unified environment for mail transport and administration is presented. It all sounds great and it's a very popular solution.

But creating a solid hybrid environment requires some up-front planning and design work if you're not to run into long-term products. The author, Michael Van Horenbeeck, (otherwise known as "Van Hybrid") is an acknowledged expert in the space and has spoken about the right and wrong ways to approach hybrid environments at major conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, the Exchange Conference, and IT/DEV Connections. The book contains all you need to create and manage a successful connection between on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online and maximize the chances of moving workload smoothly into the cloud.

This eBook is an extract of three chapters and an appendix selected from "Office 365 for Exchange Professionals (September 2015)". The full eBook (19 chapters) is available on Kindle from http://amzn.to/1KTx1Iw or from ExchangeServerPro.com for EPUB and PDF formats.