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Using Signature 365 in a hybrid configuration with on-premise Exchange mailboxes

Scenario

Information

The modern add-in can only be used in preview mode or server-side with Exchange on-premise mailboxes.

If you wish to use Signature 365 to insert signatures on compose with an on-premise mailbox, you must use the Classic Agent to achieve this.

Warning

Attempting to use the add-in to insert signatures will result in errors due to API compatibility issues with Exchange on-premise.

You are currently using Signature 365 with cloud mailboxes within Microsoft 365, but when attempting to use the Signature 365 add-in for signature preview with an on-premise mailbox you receive an error message similar to the following:

Checking the add-in logs on your device, you see the following error reported by the add-in:

[Log] [S365] [messageCompose] https://id.signature365.com/connect/token failed

Reason

Signature 365 must confirm the authenticity of the user contacting the service. For on-premise mailboxes, this can only be done by contacting your on-premise Exchange server.

Our identity servers do this by contacting the Autodiscover URL for your on-premise Exchange server to authorise the user.

If your firewall blocks access to this endpoint, Signature 365 can receive either a 401 unauthorised response or a timeout due to the firewall blocking access, which results in the returned errors listed above.

Solution

You must allow access to your on-premise Exchange Autodiscover URL through any external firewalls to allow Signature 365 to authorise your on-premise users.

Our Identity servers are a global resource, and utilise the region closest to the user connected. If your users are geographically closer to another region, this may use the Identity server of the closer region.

The external IP addresses are listed in the following document. These will need to be granted access to your on-premise Exchange server to be able to successfully authenticate your on-premise users.

Signature 365 SMTP host list and IP whitelist : Signature 365 Help Center

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