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....to Office 365 (Exchange Online,) and Windows 7 simply can't be used for much of the administrative work.

That explains the problems (outside of an old cheap W7 laptop that's dying) that Grandma's having with her Exchange email setup.

I guess the most economical fallback is to go get another cheap laptop with W10 and use it strictly for Exchange (which she usually monitors and does most of her responses using her iPad anyway) while I'm working out the wrinkles on the conversion of the Big Mutha Desktop to Unix with everybody else in VM.

...aggravating bunch of geeks....

That explains the problems (outside of an old cheap W7 laptop that's dying) that Grandma's having with her Exchange email setup.

Yup. Exchange 2016 or Exchange Online (as well as O365) requires Windows 8.1 (or Server 2012) or later to do most of the administration. I really got pissed off when I realized that the administrative WEB SITE for Office365 had some problems with browsers running on Win7. It was such a pain for me to have to RDP into a server any time I needed to run a quick PowerShell command, especially if others were already connected to the server.

And having to learn Powershell (after years of working with sh/ksh/bash is going to take some time...)

Mark