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<div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 36.0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;"> O</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">pening the Exchange Management Console, navigating to the root <em><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Organization Configuration</span></em> node, then on the <em><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hybrid Configuration</span></em><i> </i>tab, choose <em><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">New Hybrid Configuration</span></em>:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">You&#8217;ll then see a quick two-step Wizard that creates the Hybrid Configuration Object with default settings. Next, select the new Hybrid Configuration object from the list, then choose Manage Hybrid Configuration to begin entering configuration information:</span></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; margin: 6.0pt 0cm 6.0pt 36.0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">After choosing the domains we&#8217;re going to pair up with Office 365, we&#8217;ll need to re-affirm that we&#8217;re the owner of the domain. Although we&#8217;ve proved to Office 365 that we own the domain as part of the tenant setup process, we&#8217;ll also need to prove domain ownership to the Microsoft Federation Gateway. For each domain you choose, you&#8217;ll see <b>the <em><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Provisioning Status</span></em></b>, <em><b><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Domain Name</span></b></em> and <b>the <em><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Record Value</span></em></b> status:</span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">First, we&#8217;ll need to provide the external IP addresses that relate to the Transport Servers participating in the Hybrid Relationship, and we&#8217;ll need to enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) used for the on-premises Exchange servers. This is less about the DNS entry itself but more about the certificate that will be used, and the FQDN that the Send Connector presents to FOPE when asked:</span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the final configuration page of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, we&#8217;ll need to set to final options; the certificate used by all Hub Transport servers that participate in the Hybrid configuration, and the mail flow for outbound mail from Office 365.</span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: 'calibri' , 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The certificate used must be present on each server, otherwise it won&#8217;t be available from the drop down list &#8211; and you&#8217;ll need connectivity from the machine you&#8217;re running the Hybrid Configuration Wizard on to each Hub Transport Server to retrieve the list of certificates.</span></div>
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