Use of own domain name with Office 365 Home/Premium

A crazy idea. Probably will not work, but what if

has anyone tried to try getting a Business subscription for 1 month or so, setting up domain and 1 user, and then switching (not sure if it is even possible) the plan to Home and see if the domain settings remain?

Hi Microsoft .... Hello..... Microsoft ....... 

Listen..... Use poor home users just want to have some functionality. We love your products and we want to buy into your products. The home account already limits us to 5 email accounts, why not permit us to add our own domain name to the home account? What is it going to cost to provide this service? I suspect not a lot. Adding this function would bring you so much love around the world. Come on, let's do it Microsoft.

This is a pretty lame reply, it does not address the question. Of course I  know about aliases, that does not help me with hosting my domain name for email.

I know the point of the thread and I agree it is dumb on MS's part.  I was just trying to offer a workaround that I use in case anybody wanted to try it.

This is frustrating that Microsoft has not added the option to have your own domain with the Office 365 Home versions.  I have Office 365 Home and then an Office 365 Business account just for email. 

Here is what I currently do as a work around and it costs me $4 extra a month.

1. Purchase Office 365 Home then log out.
2. Log into Office 365 Admin

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Click edit on Product licenses and make sure Exchange Online (Plan 1) or whichever you purchased is assigned to your user.

So basically you have a O365 home subscription and seperate from that also an Exchange online Plan

Of course you can do that.

"Exchange online" is simply a "hosted Exchange" plan.

Cheapest way to do this that I know of would probably be the OVH Exchange plans as they start from ~3,50 EUR/month on yearly contracts - slightly cheaper than MS themselves offer this.

One tick better value for money might be an "O365 business essentials" plan - slightly more expensive, but with more feastures.

But again all of these options come down to be two seperate plans that do not integrate properly with each other.

Which is the whole point of this thread here.

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On the other hand, I had a more in-depth look into the email offering as it is included in the O365 home right now and find it pretty lightweight: Even though O365 home is a plan that is intended to be used for a family (up to 5 users), there is no way to share adress books or contacts between the accounts.

This is not, as I expected, a "family-version" of Exchange.

This is a simple mailbox, slightly beefed up with address book and calendar *within a single account only*.

In light of this, I tend to change my verdict:

Even *if* MS would start to include "custom domain"; if would still leave a lot to be desired to use it as a family.

I mean, I was hoping for a version of "hosted exchange" that integrates into O365 but also allows "family-required features", that are not possible in Exchange.

Example: even in 2018, you still can not properly share calendars and addressbooks between users on mobile devices in Exchange.

That said, the O365 private - plans would not work for me even *if* the "custom domain" would be possible.

So bottom line: If you are a heavvy using family, your are better off if you go for a OpenXchange based email-hoster anyway (because there sharing contacts works better).   mailbox.org does that, also allowing custom domains. 

So I would say: MS: if you want to capture the "heavvy users private" market, you still have quite a mile to go.