I currently have the business standard (no teams) plan for $123/yr and I'm curious if there's a way to get something cheaper? I only use the exchange email service with my custom domain.
I created one in zoho but found out that it doesn't work with many tools and the deliverability isn't the best. And if I delete my zoho account will I be able to create one in Microsoft with the same domain? (my domain is from namecheap if it helps)
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I had the same problem so I googled and found this in Microsoft's help pages:
You can add multiple custom domains in all Office 365 subscriptions[...]
This help article looks as if it were possible but they only talk about the business versions and Office 365 Home isnt mentioned with a single word - so I continued my research, even contacted Microsoft - they had no idea, but then I finally found this post:
yesterday I called MS Support and the support engineer was discussing in the background with a colleague. Then he said that it's possible to use own domain with O365 Home... I just had to create a new account with my personal email adres/domain... after that I could order O365 and configure it with my own DNS domain name. Then after changing MX records with my hosting provider this would work for me.
anyway... I tried this anyway... I created a new account with my personal domain... then I ordered Office365Home hooked up to my paypal account....but in the end... no options for me to configure this. So I called back.... I got the same engineer... but then he said.. sorry, I don't have enough technical expertise, cause I'm a sales guy.... strange, because I tried to get tech help... The guy gave me a phonenumber to local (Belgium) Microsoft Tech support.... so I called the number. Then I got first or second line tech support on the line, so I expained the situation and the proposed option from his colleague. But I got a negative response.
No, sir, O365 Home does not allow you to use your own domain... why should it, there are not so many families using their own DNS domain, sir...
DUHH !!! What ? I don't understand their response... I times like this... people make their own family website... use a personal domain.... so I believe this is really a stupid reaction from a Microsoft Tech guy. Probably he has his own domain at home ;-) The only option is to choose for O365 Small Business and pay a lot more, because you need to pay for every user... every family member... so that would cost me at least 200€-250€ yearly.... please get serious ! so I give up.... Also Google Apps only has a business solution... also around 200€ yearly. Office365 Home... useless -> go for Office365 SMB... 2expensive ! I'll try again when Microsoft grows up and gets serious.
After all I don't think it is possible, I also found some forum posts and comments in blogs and they all say it isn't possible.
As of January 2020, this is now possible with a subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal or Family Edition (formerly Office 365), but according to Microsoft you are required to purchase your domains with (or transfer them to) GoDaddy. I have found sources that claim this is possible with other domain registrars, with some users reporting success, but Microsoft maintain that this is only possible via GoDaddy.
I managed to connect a domain to my Microsoft 365 Family account, but this is not a real solution to use a custom email domain.
This is just a alias to a outlook.com account... i login with the custom email address but at the end the outlook account is the one that is used, and all email goes from the outlook account... :(
Is there any real solution to use a custom domain with Microsoft 365 family account?
How can i send email using the custom domain account... if i choose this option i alwasy get smtp server error. " This message can't be sent right now. Please try again later. The SMTP address has no mailbox associated with it. "
Can someone clarify if indeed your domain has to be registered with Godaddy to host your email on Outlook if have Office 365 Family. Someone posted on Microsoft you did not, you just needed to update the DNS records accordingly. I would try it but I already have my mail hosted on another service that allows custom domains. Don't want to undo it just to find out it does not work and renter all records again. I do not want to use Godaddy for my domain registration so that is not an option as far as I am concerned.
As others have said, if you add the appropriate DNS records yourself, then you're good. MIicrosoft just has a deal with GoDaddy to automate the process for people who basically don't understand what DNS is...
Your custom domain name can be registered with any registrar. Microsoft has partnered with some of the most popular registrars by using their API to seamlessly update the DNS records for you, if you're not familiar with updating DNS records. You can choose Custom DNS and will be provided the records and values for you to update yourself.
So Microsoft is doing (has done) away with personalized domains. I still have one active. However, GoDaddy is awful. I've had the personal domain working with another registrar. If I transfer out of GoDaddy, is it going to remove it from Microsoft 365, or can I just set up the DNS records with the new registrar? I'm guessing it'll break?
Our org is looking at a re-branding and thus a new custom domain in our Office 365 tenant. Trying to sort out the implications of such a change. We are 100% cloud and Azure AD. If anyone knows of a good guide written up, let me know. As I understand it, we would assign the new email domain alias to existing mailboxes and migrate existing DNS settings to the new domain on our host provider (changing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC as well). How does a new email username login affect current Windows 10 profiles that are Azure AD joined and Intune managed? Will new profiles need to be created? Any other considerations I'm missing?
I have a custom domain with GoDaddy and an Office 365 family subscription. I've been trying to set up a new email with the custom domain, but I'm unable to do so. Can someone please help or send me a link that's not prior to Nov 2023 on how to do this? TIA.
That is no longer possible, which is already implied in your statement that you only want articles from post November 2023, which is exactly when this was discontinued.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/changes-to-microsoft-365-email-features-and-storage-e888d746-61e5-49e3-9bd1-94b88e9be988
Ms needs a business premium like subscription for family fathers that are IT-Nerds like us…
Will I get a free domain email address with office 365? I already have my domain through namesilo and want to set up a [email protected] email where I can send and receive email from. I see that GSuite gives you that but for a similar price I’d rather get Word, excel, PowerPoint that google docs. Any other advantages/disadvantages between the two would be appreciated as well. This is for a solo law Firm with one user so my system doesn’t need to be too intricate. Thanks!
I am currently a bit skeptical about choosing an email hosting provider. I already purchased a domain and have a Microsoft 365 panel (not personal or family). There is more than enough storage available on the plan as well.
You should know by now why I am posting this in this subreddit. Privacy and security is a concern. On the security scale, M365 is good (more than good), with frequent updates to the panel. Now comes the privacy part. How much am I going to share with the company?
Do you think I should go ahead with the process because I am slowly replacing google with alternatives? If not, please provide some good reasons, and also, what else should I consider?
It is good to have the following features:
-Support for alias creation
-good amount of storage (scaling up to 1TB or higher)
-etc.,
Edit:
Self-hosting is in my plan but at a future time. So this is not an option right now.
As far as I understand, self hosting email is a pain. Many of them who have already done or are currently doing it advise against doing it. So am I in the clear in terms of privacy if I move forward with Microsoft.?
u getting email solution for company or personal?
if personal, cant go wrong with Proton mail if for conpany, cant go wrogn with M$
I want to use Office 365 Personal/Family without moving my domain to GoDaddy. In fact, GoDaddy does not even support the domain. GoDaddy is not a supported registrar for .NZ TLDs, only for .CO.NZ TLDs, and my domain has a ".NZ" only TLD.
I imagine that must have been asked a million times already. I just contacted MS support and the person on the chat confirmed that it is not supported. But since this is just DNS I was hoping someone would have figured it out already?
I wish a product manager at Microsoft would read this sub-reddit and release this already. It is silly to require a particular registrar for your custom domains.
I have created a mail address using a custom domain with GoDaddy and now I need a (personal) Microsoft account associated with it. However, since GoDaddy uses Microsoft365, my mail address is considered a 'work address' (which I am the admin of) and I therefore cannot use it to sign up for a personal account.
So far, I have found out that
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GoDaddy offers all mail options via Microsoft365, and since I have a few addresses there, I cannot move away from it
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it is/was possible to have a 'work' and a 'personal' account at Microsoft using the same mail address, but this is strongly discouraged
Is there any way for me to use my 'work mail' to create a personal Microsoft account that I am not seeing? Or is there just no way to achieve this and I should look for a different solution?
For the love of all that is holy do NOT sign up for Office365 through GoDaddy. They literally mark up the price and remove some of the feature set.
I personally wouldn't recommend creating a personal account with the same UPN as work account. We get so many cases where the sign-in issues, and service/license conflicts happen because of this.
I have a question about adding your own domain and then making a custom email in Microsoft 365 family plan. I know this is normally easy but it seems a bit more complicated in my scenario.
So I currently have 2 accounts in a 365 family. Both emails are already using the custom domain when the 365 account was created, [email protected] and [email protected]. I now want to add a third account, so i made an email [email protected] in order to add it to the account and then set up a custom email following what I understood from this link https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-microsoft-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us.
Because both user1 and user2 emails already existed before the 365 plan the domain is not connected in the plan so user3 does not get an option for adding a custom email. So when i go to connect the domain I would need to update the DNS record of said domain.
So the main question is, if I update the DNS record would it then screw up the 2 already existing emails?
Also to note that the current MX record is **.PAMX1.HOTMAIL.COM
I am just really worried about connecting the domain and then screwing up the two emails already on there and then trying to figure that out.
Anyways I hope that wasnt too confusing and would really appreciate any help at all!
I have a website with SquareSpace and I’m signed up for the Basic plan at almost $200/year. Domain name was purchased with SquareSpace. In order to have Mailerlite integration, I have to upgrade my website to the Core plan, which will bring it up to about $270/year. Okay, fine, I’ve accepted that.
Now it seems to be HEAVILY recommended that I get a custom email address (ex. [email protected]) for deliverability purposes. With Google Workspace, which is what SquareSpace recommends, that is ANOTHER $86/year minimum. For pretty much nothing. Mailerlite is my EMS and SquareSpace is providing hosting and website building services, but $86/year for simply my own name that I already paid for as an email address is something I don’t want to pay for. That’s something that should have already been included in one of the other services I’m paying for.
My point isn’t to come here and vent, though. Rather, I would like to know if there are any other services in which I could create a custom email address using my SquareSpace domain and use with Mailerlite for either cheap or completely free. Again, not to sound cheap, but that $86/year isn’t even for any actual services; Mailerlite is my EMS. I would just like to have an email address that isn’t a gmail account.
For context, I have a month-old website. It’s an author website, though I still haven’t published any books yet. Waiting on my book cover commission.
Tl;dr I would like any recommendations for a provider of cheap custom email addresses in which I could use my existing SquareSpace domain as the email domain.