By now, AD FS and Directory Synchronization should be deployed and tested. Do not proceed with Exchange Hybrid until Directory Synchronization has fully synchronized your environment. The following high-level steps will be performed when installing the Exchange Hybrid:
Confirming preparation specifications
Creating a hybrid configuration
We will gain a better understanding of these steps in the following sections.
For this example, we are going to assume that you have already deployed an Exchange 2013 or 2016 server, with the latest rollup, within your environment. This should meet the following requirements:
Exchange deployed on a Windows Server 2012 R2, with the Client Access Server and Mailbox Server roles deployed
Existing Exchange versions within the same Exchange Organization can communicate properly with the Exchange Server deployed
The Exchange server is externally accessible
The Exchange server has a public certificate for Autodiscover...