Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP2, Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Topic Last Modified: 2011-07-25

Sharing free/busy (calendar availability) information between users located on-premises and in the cloud-based organization is one of the primary benefits of a hybrid deployment. Users in both organizations can view each other's calendars just as if they were located in the same physical organization. This makes scheduling meetings and resources easy and efficient.

Several components in a hybrid deployment are required to enable the shared free/busy feature:

When configuring your organization for a hybrid deployment, configuring shared free/busy calendar access isn't a requirement in all scenarios. However, creating a federation trust with the Microsoft Federation Gateway and configuring an organization relationship for the on-premises and cloud-based organization are hybrid deployment requirements. If you don't want to allow free/busy sharing between your organization users, you can configure the organization relationship access level accordingly.

The hybrid deployment features shown in the following table have a dependency on federation trusts and organization relationships.

Messaging area Features

E-mail client

  • Message tracking

  • MailTips

  • Multi-mailbox search

Transport

  • Mailbox moves

  • Secure intra-organization message delivery