Modifying Microsoft Exchange-specific attributes without Microsoft Exchange in the environment (4339101)

Modifying Microsoft Exchange-specific attributes without Microsoft Exchange in the environment

Some environments may wish have Microsoft Exchange attributes present on objects and manipulate them locally, with changes being replicated externally via a synchronization agent (DirSync, AAD Connect, etc). In that effort, either all Microsoft Exchange servers are removed and the schema extension is retained, or only the Microsoft Exchange schema extension is installed.

Active Roles is not designed to update Microsoft Exchange-specific attributes, such as mailNickname, without using Microsoft Exchange cmdlets. These need to be processed by an on-prem Microsoft Exchange server.

Active Roles only supports an Exchange Hybrid configuration.

WORKAROUND

None. This is an unsupported configuration. Active Roles requires a fully functional local Microsoft Exchange mailbox database server in order to change Microsoft Exchange attributes on on-prem objects.

STATUS

Defect ID#: 413145 has been raised to change Active Roles functionality so that an on-prem Microsoft Exchange server is no longer a requirement.

Enhancement ID#: 433562 has been raised to better document this requirement in current versions of Active Roles.

413145, 433562