Using Microsoft 365 Business with Domain email

Pho3nix

Pho3nix

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Hi guys,

So started an email for a side venture with Absolute Hosting and would like them to continue managing my domain and emails.
What I would also like to do is move to Microsoft 365 for business for Teams and SharePoint.

Has anyone done this before?
Know adding MX records and DNS records is one part of it but looking to see if I missed anything.

@Jade @ Absolute Hosting maybe you can assist?
 
Not sure if you absolutely have to use them, but I did this once before: had a domain on GoDaddy, clicked a button and GoDaddy and MS365 synced and that was that.
 
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Pho3nix said:
Hi guys,

So started an email for a side venture with Absolute Hosting and would like them to continue managing my domain and emails.
What I would also like to do is move to Microsoft 365 for business for Teams and SharePoint.

Has anyone done this before?
Know adding MX records and DNS records is one part of it but looking to see if I missed anything.

@Jade @ Absolute Hosting maybe you can assist?
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DirectAdmin has those O365 records available to you..

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Pho3nix said:
Hi guys,

So started an email for a side venture with Absolute Hosting and would like them to continue managing my domain and emails.
What I would also like to do is move to Microsoft 365 for business for Teams and SharePoint.

Has anyone done this before?
Know adding MX records and DNS records is one part of it but looking to see if I missed anything.

@Jade @ Absolute Hosting maybe you can assist?
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Can you clarify where you want your emails to go..? You say in the 1st part that you want Absolute to continue hosting your email but, in the last part you are talking about adding MX records implying you want email to be hosted with O365..
 
No idea re that - but would recommend setting a price alert on O365 on amazon though. They're on special like yearly for half the usual. Not sure whether they sell multi-user biz on there though
 
WAslayer said:
Can you clarify where you want your emails to go..? You say in the 1st part that you want Absolute to continue hosting your email but, in the last part you are talking about adding MX records implying you want email to be hosted with O365..
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I suspect that he wants his site and dns hosted with us but have his mail hosted externally.
 
Jade @ Absolute Hosting said:
I suspect that he wants his site and dns hosted with us but have his mail hosted externally.
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Sounded more like he wants 365 for Teams and Sharepoint (which includes email for the user licenses though) but not 365 mail,which i'm not too sure if thats doable

If in fact he wants to do the 365 mail,teams and sharepoint,but keep the DNS and domain with Absolute - thats cake
 
Pho3nix said:
What I would also like to do is move to Microsoft 365 for business for Teams and SharePoint.
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You only want the Teams and Sharepoint stuff? Neither impact mail.

Your primary concerns are AD and UPN, neither of which are hinted at anywhere in responses thus far... which is awesome.
 
When you add your domain to your O365 tenant it will give you the DNS records that you need to create.

Given how Office 365 integrates your apps and data, if you are using Teams, Sharepoint, Onedrive etc, you almost certainly want your email in Exchange online. You would probably miss out on certain functionality if your mail was with another provider. (Sorry @Jade @ Absolute Hosting - nothing against your offering.)
 
InvisibleJim said:
When you add your domain to your O365 tenant it will give you the DNS records that you need to create.

Given how Office 365 integrates your apps and data, if you are using Teams, Sharepoint, Onedrive etc, you almost certainly want your email in Exchange online. You would probably miss out on certain functionality if your mail was with another provider. (Sorry @Jade @ Absolute Hosting - nothing against your offering.)
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No offense taken - I think we have established that mail belongs with O365 and web with us
 
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