Microsoft Office Home And Business 2021 Singapore

[Brigitta Martini]

Likeme (and some of my friends) do not want to migrate our domain hosting to just one party that allows 365 family version to work with own domains. Microsoft is essentially forcing all non business users to migrate to GoDaddy (where I have learned that migration often goes wrong and is more expensive) Does anybody know if Microsoft is changing the product offer anytime soon? so that I can use Microsoft 365 Family with my own domain hosting provider?

What capabilities are you using with your current domain registrar? Switching the registrar and having it managed by GoDaddy may not be as challenging as you think, if done properly it should be pretty seamless and without any impact.

Hello,

I haven't tried it myself yet, though it appears that a domain to be used for a family Microsoft 365 account need not be registered through Godaddy.

It appears that any domain can be used for this, regardless of the registrar it is registered through, based on this documentation page: -us/microsoft-365/admin/setup/add-domain?view=o365-worldwide

That documentation actually specifies that the user used to set the custom domain must be a global administrator of a business or enterprise plan, which is of course, not what we are talking about, yet the fact that a Microsoft employee linked to it in reference to a question specifically about home family plans makes me think that it applies to such accounts as well. As well, it doesn't make sense that there would be such an odd restriction that these plans could not have custom domains.

Here is the post where the Microsoft employee references the documentation mentioned above:

-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_account-mso_win10-mso_365hp/setting-up-c...

cc: @boneyfrancis @kusuriya

"To Add, modify or remove domains you must be a Global Administrator of a business or enterprise plan. These changes affect the whole tenant, Customized administrators or regular users won't be able to make these changes."

@Ed Randall I've read your very informative blog on this subject and noticed your boxed insert toward the top regarding MS having removed the ability to create a custom domain for 365 Family in Nov 2022. I believe they are planning to remove the ability at the end of Nov 2023, so hopefully your instructions will still allow someone to configure a non-GoDaddy domain for another 9 months or so.

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