Important notice about certificate expiration for Exchange 2013 Hybrid customers
If you’re running Exchange 2013 and you’ve configured a hybrid deployment with Office 365, this post contains important information that might impact you. Please evaluate this information and take any necessary action before April 15, 2016. If your latest run of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard was initiated from Exchange 2010 than you are NOT affected.
Note: This information is now also published in KB3145044.
On April 15 2016, the Office 365 TLS certificate will be renewed. This certificate is used by Office 365 to provide TLS encryption between Office 365 and external SMTP servers. The new certificate, which will help improve the security of mail sent to and from Office 365, will be issued by a new Certificate Authority and it will have a new Issuer and Subject.
This change has the potential to stop hybrid mailflow between Office 365 and your on-premises Exchange servers if one of the following conditions applies to you:
- Your on-premises Exchange servers are running Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) or lower.
- You’ve upgraded the Exchange 2013 servers that handle hybrid mailflow to Exchange 2013 CU9 or higher. However, since upgrading to CU9, you HAVE NOT re-run the Hybrid Configuration wizard (either from the Exchange Admin Center or via the direct download link).
If one of the previous conditions applies to your organization, hybrid mailflow between Office 365 and your organization will stop working after April 15, 2016 unless you complete the steps below.
Note: This only affects hybrid mailflow. Regular mailflow and TLS encryption is NOT affected.