Exchange Removal After move to office 365

[ITGURU]

I have a client who fully migrated to office 365 in 2014 and their local exchange server has been shut down ever since. I booted it up and all old mail etc is still there and appears to let users login .

 

Can i just go through the uninstall from Add/Remove programs to remove the exchange organisation? Will it affect any of the users and current sync with 365?

 

Also, if i remove the server, would i then easily be able to re-integrate and exchange 2016 server if needed in the future just by running the install?

[djm968]

If its been shut down for 4 years, you can do what you like with it. I'm not sure why you would need/want to deploy Exchange 2016 if your client has fully migrated to Office 365 though.

[ITGURU]

If its been shut down for 4 years, you can do what you like with it. I'm not sure why you would need/want to deploy Exchange 2016 if your client has fully migrated to Office 365 though.

 

because when it goes down they have no internal email and internal monitoring systems cannot send email notifications. I keep getting asked why our emails always work - because we have an Exchange server on-site and never had any downtime during school hours!

[djm968]

You could look into deploying Exchange 2016 with Office 365 as a hybrid solution.

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2016/05/09/step-by-step-configuring-a-hybrid-office-365-deployment-via-hybrid-deployment-wizard/

[ITGURU]

You could look into deploying Exchange 2016 with Office 365 as a hybrid solution.

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2016/05/09/step-by-step-configuring-a-hybrid-office-365-deployment-via-hybrid-deployment-wizard/

 

That is what i'm thinking, but just wondered if it would be better to install 2016, then decommission the 2010 server, or just remove 2010 completely now and then install 2016 if required later.

 

Assume it doesn't make much difference either way? If I remove 2010 now I should be able to install 2016 later?

[djm968]

Yes, it shouldn't make any difference either way.