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Asked: 2014-07-09 13:19:20 +0800 CST

add exchange extensions to AD

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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

active-directory

2 Answers

  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.

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  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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