We recently migrated from an on premises Exchange deployment to Exchange in the cloud (Office 365). With our on premises Exchange, we could create a distribution group in Active Directory and then have Exchange to use it as a distribution list (one of the options for creating a distribution list was to use an existing group in AD). This allowed us to add users to groups using Active Directory and automatically have them added to the distribution list in Exchange.
Is there a way to continue to do this with Exchange online? I'd like to be able to create the user in Active Directory and then add them to an Active Directory group and have them automatically added to distribution lists that exist in Exchange online (effectively, I'd like to manage our exchange online distribution lists in active directory as we had been doing.
Is this possible, if so, how do I go about doing this?
Our Environment:
2 domain controllers running Sever 2016 (but at 2008 domain functional level)
They sync to our Azure AD service and Exchange online.
Currently, changes in our distribution groups/lists on either end (AD or Exchange) don't make any changes to the other end.