Office 365 Partial User Migration

Question

We are researching a migration to Office 365.  We have a single domain that has users split into 2 groups with 2 different UPN suffixes but one registered domain name.  Lets call it abc.com and the 2 UPNs we will call staff.abc.com and sales.abc.com.  We currently have Exchange 2010 on premise with a MX record for abc.com (also own the abc.com domain name.

What we would like to do is migrate sales.abc.com to Office 365 and leave staff.abc.com on premise.  We plan on using ADFS for SSO integration to Office 365 users.

Is this a workable scenario?

Answer 1

Hi Terry,

Based on your situation, the workable scenario is hybrid deployments. Some articles about deploy hybrid and move mailboxes between on-premises and Exchange Online organization in hybrid deployments below for your reference:

1. Hybrid Deployments

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg577584(v=exchg.141).aspx

2. Hybrid Deployments with the Hybrid Configuration Wizard

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529920(v=exchg.141).aspx

3. Move mailboxes between on-premises and Exchange Online organization in hybrid deployments

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/o365e_hrcmoverequest_fl312271(v=exchg.150).aspx

Feel free to let us know if you need further assistance during the procedure.

Regards,

Larry