Exchange Online transport agent support / alternative implementation?

Hi,
We have a custom transport agent that our clients use with exchange 2010, however a number of potential clients are now using exchange online. I've read that this doesn't support transport agents, so I was wondering whether it would ever have support
for them?
If not, is there an alternative way of capturing and working with emails from all platforms (desktop/mobile/web) before they are sent from the exchange? Our solution also uses a SQL database to temporarily store some of these emails, as well as an
admin account to auto-correspond with the sender, so we would need some way of implementing something similar to this as well.
Many thanks,
Tom

Hi,
For exchange cutover migration, you need a public SSL certificate and a internet routeable domain. After getting up public SSL, did you assign any service to the certificate? Make sure that your autodiscover is working fine as O365 tries to connect your
Exchange using autodiscover. You can test your outlook anywhere and autodiscover settings from testconnectivity.microsoft.com and yes Microsoft don't have any issue with .local entry in 3rd party certificate. Hope this answers your question. Thanks.
Regards, Riaz Javed Butt | Consultant Microsoft | MCITP, MCITP (Exchange), MCSE: Messaging, MCITP Office 365 | mstechtalk.com

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