{"id":3135,"date":"2020-08-24T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3135"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:17:54","slug":"link-your-domain-name-to-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/kb\/link-your-domain-name-to-microsoft-365\/","title":{"rendered":"How to link your domain name to Microsoft 365 (Office 365)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to be able to create e-mail addresses with your own domain name, you must connect a domain name to Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In order to add a domain name, please follow these steps in the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combell control panel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Go to &#8220;My Products&#8221; > &#8220;Microsoft 365&#8221; (and choose the appropriate tenant if necessary)<\/li><li>Click on &#8220;Domain names&#8221; in the menu on the left.<\/li><li>In the list of domain names, click on the &#8220;+ Add&#8221; button.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1327\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2021-05-26-at-10.49.42.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li><li>Enter your domain name (e.g. domainname.be) and click on &#8220;Add domain name&#8221;.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1327\" height=\"596\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2021-05-26-at-10.52.53.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li><li>After adding your domain name, you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-create-a-txt-record\/\">add a TXT record<\/a> to your domain name&#8217;s DNS records. You do this on your domain name provider&#8217;s control panel.<br>Copy the TXT record and add the TXT record or click on &#8220;Set up my DNS records automatically&#8221; if your domain name is with us. We will then set everything up for you, see screenshot (in Dutch).<br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23414\" style=\"width: 700px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-11-15-at-11.21.42.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li><li>Once the TXT record is added, you will be able to verify the DNS records here.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\">In order to make full use of Microsoft 365, make sure to click on the buttons that enable both &#8220;E-mail, Contacts and Calendars&#8221; and &#8220;Skype for Business&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-alert\">Note: Did you already have a mailbox with this domain name? <br>If so, start by recreating it in Microsoft 365. Once e-mail traffic is enabled, no more e-mails will be delivered to your old mailbox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">As soon as the DNS records have been properly configured, the domain name is fully connected to Microsoft 365. You can now create e-mail addresses with your own domain name.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">Read further: <\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/kb\/how-to-create-and-manage-users-in-microsoft-365\/\">How do I create users and e-mail addresses in Microsoft 365?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to be able to create e-mail addresses with your own domain name, you must connect a domain name to Microsoft 365. In order to add a domain name, please follow these steps in the Combell control panel. Go to &#8220;My Products&#8221; > &#8220;Microsoft 365&#8221; (and choose the appropriate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[114],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3135\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.nl\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}