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
    2016-03-06T09:41:42+00:00

    Microsoft will give us custom domains. Finally!

    Outlook Premium

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-06T10:58:02+00:00

    You can already port port a domain name to GoDaddy, to obtain an EX mail account

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-17T15:41:32+00:00

    Whilst thanking you for your tip, when I started this thread it was all about Microsoft not providing this simple and common feature to home users.

    This is definitely a deal breaker for me, as I was looking into Office365, and feeling that it looks a pretty good deal (especially if you factor in the 1TB storage).

    Just out of interest, have you seen Microsoft's Article describing the (laborious) process of Migrating from Home to Business Edition? https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Upgrade-Office-365-for-home-to-a-business-subscription-9322ffb8-a35d-4407-8ebe-ed6ea0859b9f

    It is far from straight forward, and suggests that providing Domain Support within the Home Edition is not simply a matter of "switching" on the additional functionality (as I imagined it would be). The Home infrastructure appears to be completely separate to the Business offering.

    My guess is that providing Domain Functionality may require a complete overhaul of the Home Edition, and this is the reason Microsoft is not offering a response.

    In many respects, they would be better off providing a 5-User Version of the Business platform for Home / Business use at a more reasonable charge (a bit like they have done with Windows Server Essentials).

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-17T16:58:00+00:00

    All current 365 versions support personal Domains, as to how you set the account up in MS Outlook depends as to whether in purchasing the Domain name you also subscribed to the mail service

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-20T20:35:12+00:00

    Yeah, I got the email...

    "Did you know that your Office 365 subscription includes a personalized email address for the first year - like ******@smithcrew.com or ******@wallfamily.org - that you can use with your Outlook.com account?"

    Oh and BTW...

    "*Personalized email addresses subject to availability and included for the first year of Office 365 service only. Subscriber should renew domain names directly with GoDaddy or a domain registrar of your choice after the first year; additional charges may apply. "

    So... It only works for one year, then we have to go back to having it hosted by someone else??? Or pay what I know will turn out to be a much higher fee? But I should let my current email hosting lapse in the hopes that Microsoft will beat their price next year? Or chance that I can keep the rate I have now with the current host?

    Oh and I hope my family is no bigger than five. That fourth kid is outta luck.

    Thanks  again, Microsoft!

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