add exchange extensions to AD

exchange-2013 microsoft-office-365 active-directory

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Solution 1

I don't think you need to actually install Exchange to accomplish this. What they're referring to is extending the AD Schema for Exchange, which adds the Exchange related Schema data to AD. I don't necessarily see this as particularly risky. Here's a link to details on how to extend the Schema for Exchange Server 2013:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224(v=exchg.150).aspx.

Note that you should only need to extend the Schema, you shouldn't need to prepare AD, but you should confirm that with Microsoft PSS.

Solution 2

What Microsoft said is right: the sync process is one-way, and some (well, a lot of) settings can not be managed by Office 365 in your scenario: they need to be configured on your local AD and then synced; however, your environment lacks any Exchange deployment, so those attributes don't even exist in your AD objects.

As joeqwerty said, extending the AD schema by running the relevant step in the Exchange setup (setup.exe /PrepareSchema) will take care of adding Exchange-related attributes to your AD, which will then be synced to Office 365.

However, since you don't have any local Exchange server, you'll have to manually edit those attributes using ADSIEdit or your favourite LDAP editor, because there will be no Exchange tool to manage them.

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Crash893

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Crash893 almost 2 years

we have a windows server 2012 with AD on it. we sync that to office 365 but a few of the options like moderated email groups are not present.

I contacted Microsoft tech support about this and they said there was no way to override the settings in 365 because they were synced so i would have to add the extensions on my AD server

they suggested installing a trial of exchange then uninstalling it. That seems risky to me

Is there a save way to install the extensions
Crash893 almost 10 years

the instructions seem a little fuzzy to me for step 1)-3) are they refering to download exhcnage trial the run that command from the setup.exe from the excnage trial. I don't see anywhere that it refers to where to get the setup.exe
Crash893 almost 10 years

where does one get the setup.exe from
Massimo almost 10 years

You need to download the installation package, unpack it and run setup.exe from there; there is no trial or full version, Exchange is always installed as a trial version until you enter a serial number. Here's the latest package: microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43103.
Massimo almost 10 years

You need to download the installation package, unpack it and run setup.exe from there; there is no trial or full version, Exchange is always installed as a trial version until you enter a serial number. Here's the latest package: microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43103.
MDMarra almost 10 years

@Crash893 if you can't figure out how to get to setup.exe from the install media, you may be beyond help.
MDMarra almost 10 years

You can edit them through ADUC/ADAC as well.
Massimo almost 10 years

@MDMarra any LDAP editor will do; but you still need to find the correct attribute and manually edit its value(s). Good luck adding an email alias if you don't know how ProxyAddresses work...
MDMarra almost 10 years

This is very true.
Crash893 almost 10 years

long term goal is to add distro group moderators
Massimo almost 10 years

That would probably be even more awkward to do at the LDAP level than adding an email alias...
Crash893 almost 10 years

Yea i got it. I just wasn't sure where to get the install media from