Add ability to change country
I created an account for a client of mine. I set it up on my company (registered in Sweden) to be able to fix this smoothly for my customer. When I now want to change ownership to his company (registered in Switzerland) I cannot do that. That is strike one.
Ok, so I was told that I should setup a new account and then you could help me migrate all data to the new account, so I did. When I came back asking for the migration step I get the instructions to do this via exporting to pst-files. I MEAN COME ON!! What year is this?
Now my only hope is that I can use migrationwiz or something else to be able to migrate the data. All this because I cannot change the owner of an account.
So what is my proposal:
1. Either make it so that you are able to change ownership of an account (I think lots of SMBs out there would benefit from this) or,
2. Help the customers with the migration - should be much hassle for you guys.
That would be greatly appreciated!
Joakim Carlsten
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Chris
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Hi Adding my vote to this. Our tenant was set up by the US office years ago, and the UK head office joined the tenant 4 years ago but we still cannot change the address. Although we are not a big tenant in Microsoft's eyes, the logistics of having to move 140 mailboxes in 7 countries and 8 timezones just to change my address is idiotic. I'm not even asking to move the data (much as it would be nice), just the address. What if we closed our US office? We would have incorrect data in the tenant.
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Chris
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Hi Adding my vote to this. Our tenant was set up by the US office years ago, and the UK head office joined the tenant 4 years ago but we still cannot change the address. Although we are not a big tenant in Microsoft's eyes, the logistics of having to move 140 mailboxes in 7 countries and 8 timezones just to change my address is idiotic.
I'm not even asking to move the data (much as it would be nice), just the address. What if we closed our US office? We would have incorrect data in the tenant. -
Lawrence Dwight
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This needs to be addressed. Companies do move jurisdiction and having to setup an entirely new tenant isn't a great experience.
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Hussam Fawzy
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+1 this is a very common requirement that I don't understand why it is not available
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Anonymous
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+1 here. This shouldn't be so complicated. With any IT service provider you can change your billing address, country included, except for Microsoft. Really???
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Anonymous
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We have moved a company from one EU member state to another, We need to get proper invoice with the proper country and currency but it seems to be impossible.
Opening new account is not an option we have almost 10 years of data in Office365 ! -
Eino
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Especially this violates EU's principles of freedom to move and I can have bank account in one country, office in an other country and Microsoft makes this challenging.... open ticket? Next you want us to send letter or fax to you? :-)
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Ben Finn
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+1 please just get this done. The "work around" of deleting your entire tenant is insane.
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Mathieu Berube
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+1 in the wtf clan
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John Savage
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This is fundamental for today's world. We are being impaired in how we can optimise the system on this matter.
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Jamal Kassem
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It's required for our company to change the country name, we are stuck now!!!
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hisham
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use vpn
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Pralhad Nandivkar
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Our tenant country is defined based on my mobile number that I used for getting OTP while registering new tenant. But I need tenant for our other operating company based in based in another country.
I checked with support/billing team- unfortunately change Country option is not available.
Since data location defined based on billing address - This is big challenge for us
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Thomas Zilliacus
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I cannot see any reply from Microsoft to any of these comments. Don't they care about their customers?
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Igor Ruhangara
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How many votes does this issue needs to be fixed??? 4 years now from the raise of the issue??
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Anonymous
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Just found out that you even cannot add a second credit card from a different country in Azure...
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Anonymous
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I'm an international company with Canadian payment and US operations. This impacted start-up of our US company for two weeks and resulted in loss of communications with our roll-out, customers, and websites. We lost our tenant and had to use some mucked up naming convention for our onmicrosoft.com domain for sharepoint and onecloud. Now this is a legacy ISSUE and is frustrating customers and users. I can't regain the user domain for 6 months. Call me. Fix this take payment over the phone, anything is better. You should be able to turn off the tenant in cPanel with a toggle and re-issue with a foreign organization. You do know how???
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Anonymous
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We are stuck with O365 billing in 1 country and Azure billing in another country. We can't purchase any of the additional Azure products on offer because the country is wrong. The process of Creating a new tenant and migrating is neither simple or safe because even MS technicians are unable to guarantee no data loss and certainly can't guarantee minimum downtime during the migration. So loss of earnings for MS and dissatisfaction for us the client. Please figure out a loop hole in the EULA so that this moronic issue can be put to rest.
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Tiago Remédio
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We don't need to put much more words here about this... It's an absolute necessity nowadays! Please consider it ASAP.
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Ali
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OMG Microsoft PLEASE deal with this. So many companies work across various regions. You can't prevent the transfer of billing regions!!!!