Chapter 17: Integration with Exchange Server

While services such as Microsoft Teams and Exchange Online have reached significant maturity milestones (for example, since Business Productivity Online Services, the precursor to Office 365, which was launched in 2008), many organizations are still in the beginning stages of exploring Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. These organizations still have significant investments in on-premises technology (such as Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, and SharePoint). Fortunately, there are many options available to help these organizations begin to adopt cloud technologies such as Microsoft Teams.

As you've already seen in previous chapters, Microsoft Teams offers a rich set of collaborative technologies such as instant messaging, a calendar, file storage and editing, and dashboards. Organizations can use hybrid technologies to connect Microsoft Teams to an Exchange server environment, thereby gaining instant access to Teams features...