Use of own domain name with Office 365 Home/Premium

Anonymous
2014-04-10T18:13:41+00:00

I cannot seem to find out whether I can add my own private domain, i.e. not a business user, but I own a personalised domain, with Office 365 Home Premium.

In other words, I would like to use ******@mydomain.com instead of ******@outlook.com.

I know you can do this with Office 365 for Business, but need to know whether this can be done with Home Premium.

Thanks

Chris

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-24T12:09:43+00:00

    Hello Chris,

    any news ? I'm also the owner of a personal domain for family usage.

    I wanted to add my family (with our own family personal domain) into Office365Home... but if we cannot incorporate this, there is no use.

    You can already do this with the O365 Small Business subscription, so I recon this shouldn't be a big deal with O365Home.

    Hello Microsoft support, please help if you would like to gain another customer.

    regards,

    Tom.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-24T19:51:47+00:00

    Hi Tom,

    No unfortunately M$ went silent on this one, so I guess the answer is that it is not possible ... but I am sure they can do it IF they want!

    Chris

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-24T20:34:33+00:00

    The answer as I understand it is this:   A personal domain name is not a supported option for O365 Home Premium.   If you want to leverage your own domain, you will need to sign up for O365 Small Business. 

    This is my understanding.   By comparison to Google Apps, I believe they support it but I think you need to be paying $50 per user, so depending on your user counts...O365 Small business is the same cost per user. 

    Personally, I'm grandfathered in on Google Apps with the free setup for 10 users or less.   I would not be able to sign up for it today but I'm supported for now with my 6 users on my personal domain for free.  

    I'd like to switch to O365 as I don't get much use out of the Google Apps and would prefer MS Office and OneNote integration, but can't justify paying 6x$50.

    Good luck.  I would like to be corrected if O365 Home is different than I understand.   Clark

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-25T10:03:04+00:00

    don't understand why I would have to look at O365 SMB, while O365 Home is targeted for family use. I suppose that there are more families using their own emaildomain (familyname.be or something)...

    So please microsoft, make an official statement on this....

    need to know !

    This would help me off my imap/pop email ****.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-25T10:18:32+00:00

    Yes, I concur with your understanding and I am in the same position as you with regards to Google Apps.  I have it free because I had subscribed a long time ago.

    I still do not see why MS do not want to open this up for O365 Home.  After all, we are paying an annual fee for 5 users.

    As Tom said, it is very common nowadays for families to own a domain name ... which they cannot use with O365.

    Personally, I do not think MS have anything to lose if they give us this functionality.  I just hope that they look at these threads sometimes to get our feedback :-)

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