Office 365 Home - Personal email domain availability
Let us use a personal email domain in Office 365 Home.
Glenn Røsbekk
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You can use your own personal email with a personal domain to connect to any type of Office 365 subscription, including Office 365 Home. Office 365 Home relies on a Microsoft account for authentication. A Microsoft account can be created with any personal domain email, it is not required to be Outlook.com/Hotmail.com, etc. Once the Microsoft account is created using your personal email, you can use it to activate and sign into your Office 365 Home subscription.
If you don’t have a Microsoft account, go to the Microsoft account sign-up page and click on Create account. In the User name box enter your personal domain email address you wish to use. Fill out the rest of the form and click Create account.
Now you can set up your Office 365 Home subscription with your Microsoft account. This will be the Microsoft account associated with your Office download. If you have already purchased Office 365 Home and it is not associated with a Microsoft account that is registered with your personal domain email, you have two options. You may contact support for account and billing inquires at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/get-support/office/office-365-home-premium#. The second option is to share your Office 365 subscription with your personal domain email as if you were sharing with a new user (see below).
To add users, log into Office365.com, click on My Account in the upper right portion of the webpage. This page will help you manage your Office 365 Home subscription, allow you to share the subscription with up to four other users, activate your other benefits such as Skype minutes and 1TB of storage on OneDrive, and much more. To share your subscription with other users, click Share Office 365, which will send an invite to any email address. Before the person you invited can use your subscription, they will need to sign in with their own Microsoft account.
130 comments
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Anonymous
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GoDaddy has the worst service of any registrar I know of. Why would I want to have anything to do with them? How much do you think they are kicking back to MS to rip off their customers?
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Dave Webster
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2020 and still not supported...
So that's 5 years and counting..
I think that deserve a slow clap..
Followed by a quick slap to the face..Have to admit I do like JS / JAN's work on a workaround. Shows this is totally an artificial issue.
As another option you can just use a single E1 seat to set up a business account and all the domains you like and then use shared mailboxes for everyone's mailboxes. (yes you can assign a password and use a shared mailbox as a basic exchange mailbox due to the shared mailbox / OWA mess up.)
Not ideal and missing some features but works fine if you just need basic mail.
But that's another cheap way to accomplish a similar outcome.. -
David
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Why is this locked to Go Daddy - This is totally un-competitive. Just wrong.
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Jan Einar
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If / when Office Home starts to support your own domain, I will start to convert my "private" Google Apps / G-Suite domains to Office...
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Stephan Gregori
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Now, I got my personal domain connected with Microsoft account. But Microsoft do not want to let me use it as primary. I should use an alias. Why??? Then i have to change the sender for every mail. I can not understand that Nonsens.
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James
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All I really want to do is add Exchange Online Plan 1 to my O365 home subscription.
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Alexander Trauzzi
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This needs to happen as I don't think it makes sense to buy a full-fledged office business seat for every person in my household. That said, some functionality found in business doesn't need to be exclusive to it.
The "try this instead" suggestion doesn't make sense, people want to be able to use office 365 as their MX record. This is about much more than simply sign-in.
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Anonymous
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Can MS please get some COMPETENT engineers into Australia? What MS calls support is atrocious. They have no idea and "google" - not even bing - possible and totally outdated answers.
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No Name Goes Here
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This seems to have been an issue for well over a year. If Microsoft has an agreement with GoDaddy (pretty much the only major registrar I won't use as they are horrific) that prevents you from offering any flexibility (as was offered for most of Hotmail and Outlook.com's history) please let us know when that agreement will expire. If you're locked into this position until 2024 just say so and we can just discount Microsoft usage until then. I was looking to roll back to MS and was shocked to see that the prior functionality of custom domains was no longer available. This is basic stuff.
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Tom
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+1, currently using Business Essentials but would happily pay the extra $20pa for Personal if I didn't have to migrate my DNS to GoDaddy (and pay 2x more for my domain).
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lewis hamilton
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Thanks for the information it is quite helpful! Also, you can try O365 ProPlus. It has some addon features which are not there on the O365 home premium. For more information on visit: https://www.o365cloudexperts.com/office-365-proplus/
Hope you find it helpful!
Regards,
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Crazy Hick in NH
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Am I crazy for finding it absolutely hilarious that this ranks #5 on the list (out of 10,442) yet remains ignored by Microsoft? How many more months, err, years will it take to get a change/result?
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JS
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JS: did you actually delete the zone @GD and it still works, or do you have your own DNS _in addition_ to the zone at GD?
Hey JAN, sorry for late replay, yes I still left the GD zone on my dns at namecheap. I also have my own as well, or rather namecheap ones.
See below for the GD one, so far everything has been working fine, even MAC OS mail app is able to auto dect exchange settings and setup the account with no issues.
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Joshua Barneck
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NOTE: Office 365 Home is a great product. Thank you for making it great and available.
Will you please add other registrars ASAP? Not everyone wants to move their domain to GoDaddy.
It would be wonderful if you would implement a simple DNS settings check like in Office 365 business.
This would make Office 365 home even better.
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Carla
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Hi. My boss has her own domain linked up with an email account which she pays for, she is after getting a new email account which she can use along side this one with the same domain, how do we do this? Can’t seem to find it anywhere.
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Anonymous
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Office 365 home subscription is limited to 6 people. In the family we are 8 people across 2 Office 365 home subscriptions. I would make sense to enable multiple subscriptions to share a domain. I can’t imagine a more loyalty creating feature than this. As the family grow, kids and spouses will need a subscription to get a personal email with the family domain.
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Jan
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Hi JS,
great that you actually tried this.
I can just add one more thing:
In order to test, I did set up a domain that's registered elsewhere within GoDaddy (just go to DNS -> add DNS hosting to create a record for a domain).Officially they do offer to use their DNS servers without actually having the domain there either paied ("premium DNS") or for free, to be used if you transfer a domain into GD, to allow a seamless transfer.
As I described this in my posting below, I expected that without paying they would delete the records after 30 days or so (read that somewhere).
No I re-checked my GD account and guess what: I tried this with two Domains (NOT registered via GD) and both still are available in GD DNS Server, all records are still there.
After almost one year (mid-september last year).Sure, that's not a guarantee they never get deleted, but it's a pretty plesant surprise.
Using this, you will swap the risk: "Will MS eventually check if a domain still is registered at GD"? with the risk "will GD eventually delete my records"?
Thinking ahead here: If MS would at some point find out and delete your domain in O365, who knows what happens. Probably you mailbox will stay intact but incoming mail might bounce.
If GD would delete your records, email to you would bounce.So just depending on your risk appetite this could also be an option.
Regarding my own account, sadly, I haven't yet made the switch yet and won't so far, because I need additional mailboxes / aliases. So the package they offer right now just doesn't cut it yet.
UPDATE
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I checked what happens if a domain used for this expires:I had a domain at GoDaddy that expires today.
So I set it up to work in O365 home -> working fine.
Just minutes ago I received word from GD about the expiration and it's no visible in their control panel anymore.
Looking at Office365 (diamond menu), I immediately see an error message: domain would not work and I shopuld re-start the setup process.Obviosuly it's not surprising that it doesn't actually receive email: there's no more MX entry at all pointing to MS, so mail would never have reached the server anyway.
What's surprising is rather how quickly the GD MX record vanished: they informed me of the expiration minutes ago and already their DNS doesn't hold the domain any more.
JS: did you actually delete the zone @GD and it still works, or do you have your own DNS _in addition_ to the zone at GD?
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JS
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Its been 24 hours after moving it back and still looks fine https://imgur.com/a/djaIrz5
After taking the red pill offered by Jan: Am back to my own dns, I copied all the entries godaddy created on their free dns dashboard and everything still works fine, not all settings are needed and actually there is an auto discovery entry that I believe is what their are using to find your domain when you start the setup of custom domain via the diamond shaped menu, so for the next person they might not even need to move it to goddady in the 1st place, however there is a TXT record that might be assigned just for your domain and this you would need so not sure if you can get that without moving to goaddy in the 1st place, below is all the settings I copied back to my namecheap provider.
Type Name Value TTL Actions
A @ Parked 600 seconds ---> don`t need it.
CNAME autodiscover autodiscover.outlook.com 1 Hour --> This is how they find your domain when you try to setup it up from the diamond shaped menu on top right.
CNAME www @ 1 Hour -----> No need.
CNAME _domainconnect _domainconnect.gd.domaincontrol.com 1 Hour --> Require
MX @ 103828561.pamx1.hotmail.com (Priority: 0) 1 Hour --> Require
NS @ ns63.domaincontrol.com 1 Hour --> No need since you are using your own ns at this point
NS @ ns64.domaincontrol.com 1 Hour --> " "
SOA @ Primary nameserver: ns63.domaincontrol.com.--> Not needed
TXT @ v=spf1 include:outlook.com -all 1 Hour --> Need for spam protection
TXT _outlook 10382XXXX 1 Hour ---> This is needed, but not sure if is unique to each domain. Hence why I added ***Thank you Jan!!!!!!!