Enabling hybrid features
In this section, we're going to review the key settings to ensure the environment is prepared. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:
- Verifying your domains
- Updating your on-premises user principal names
- Configuring Azure Active Directory Connect
- Running the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard
- Verifying Teams integration
- Assigning licenses
- Reviewing manual configuration steps
After performing these steps, an on-premises mailbox user should be able to use the Teams application to query on-premises free/busy times and schedule a meeting.
Verifying your domains
To enable a hybrid experience, you'll need to configure your Microsoft 365 tenant to use the same Domain Name System (DNS) namespace as your on-premises email domains. To do this, you must add your domain to Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 generates a code that you add as a text (TXT) record to your organization's public DNS. This proves...