Error: “You cant use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization” when onboarding a mailbox to Exchange Online

Scenario:  You receive the following error message when you attempt to onboard a mailbox from Exchange On-Premises to Exchange Online:

“You cant use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization”

Solution:  Check their Email aliases (Get-mailbox steve | Select -expandproperty emailaddresses). The user account may have an invalid email alias OR an alias that is not an accepted domain for the Exchange Online tenant.  For Example,  the On-Prem mailbox may have an alias of  steve@xyz.com  but the @xyz.com is not an accepted domain in the cloud.  Either add that domain to the cloud OR remove the alias.

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