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rerun HCW after failed exchange server

Jan De Smet 66 Reputation points
2022-04-01T08:38:34.507+00:00

Hello, I don't know if the is the right place on this forum to post my question. We have a customer who had several Exchange 2010 on prem servers. One of them was the one on which the HCW was run. The server got decommissioned / deleted. I than took over the project, and installed a new exchange 2016 onprem / hybrid server. I decommissioned the remaining exchange 2010 servers. We now only have one exchange 2016, only used for mgmt purpose. We have no onprem mailboxes anymore. I already raised a support ticket for more info. Can we safely rerun the hcw on the new exch2016 server? We have about 2300 online mailboxes. Many thanks. Jan

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  1. Andy David - MVP 145.6K Reputation points MVP
    2022-04-01T13:13:45.197+00:00

    Ok, in that case, re-run on the new server. You didnt mention that part before :)
    You can run the wizard and see if it complains about anything.

    But like I said, its not absolutely required generally in your scenario to have a hybrid config enabled.

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  1. Andy David - MVP 145.6K Reputation points MVP
    2022-04-01T11:34:32.277+00:00

    Yes, you can re-run it as many time as you want.

    Just make sure you have met the pre-reqs

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/hybrid-deployment-prerequisites

    However!

    If you have no mailboxes on-prem and ONLY use the server for mgmt, then you probably do not even need to run the Wizard. Its not required in that scenario

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  2. Jan De Smet 66 Reputation points
    2022-04-01T12:34:32.71+00:00

    Hello AndyDavid, many thanks for your reply. It is not necessary to rerun the HCW? Even if the HCW has been run on an old decomissioned exchange? I always thought, once you run the hcw, and you keep one exchange onprem for mgmt purposes, you need to rerun the hcw? I opened several support tickets, and no one ever suggested this. again thank you.

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  3. Andy David - MVP 145.6K Reputation points MVP
    2022-04-01T12:38:23.53+00:00

    You dont need hybrid if Exchange is only used for Management :)

    If you are running AADConnect, then you need that Exchange Server on-prem of course, but thats not related to Hybrid.

    You only need hybrid enabled if you still have on-prem mailboxes, on-prem public folders or use on-prem Exchange as a SMTP relay to Exchange Online

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/decommission-on-premises-exchange#scenario-three

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  4. Jan De Smet 66 Reputation points
    2022-04-01T13:08:39.593+00:00

    I read that the information on your suggested link. But it also states: We recommend against removing Exchange and the hybrid configuration at this point.
    So for my interpretation, this means - keeping the hybrid config. (and rerun the hcw - when necessary)
    At this moment I cannot create an office 365 mailbox from my onprem server. I cannot even login to the O365 tab in my ecp. The option simply is not there. And the office 365 tab always reverts to a general m365 page.

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