Can you use your own email address with Office/Outlook 365?

Draeger

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I've been running Outlook 2010 for a long time as I bought it back then via the Microsoft HUP program. But its obviously a bit outdated now and I was looking to update to something newer and was looking at the Family £79 per year option of Office 365.

I use 3 main email addresses, all of which are setup under my own .co.uk domain via my own server space. I have looked online for the answer to this but I'm still not clear about it - can I set up those email accounts within Office 365 just the same as you can with say the older installed/standalone Outlook programs like Outlook 2010?

I appreciate the above might be a daft question, but as I said - Googling it (unless I'm not using the right search phrases) doesn't come up with anything conclusive?!!!?

Ta.
 
Draeger said:
I've been running Outlook 2010 for a long time as I bought it back then via the Microsoft HUP program. But its obviously a bit outdated now and I was looking to update to something newer and was looking at the Family £79 per year option of Office 365.

I use 3 main email addresses, all of which are setup under my own .co.uk domain via my own server space. I have looked online for the answer to this but I'm still not clear about it - can I set up those email accounts within Office 365 just the same as you can with say the older installed/standalone Outlook programs like Outlook 2010?

I appreciate the above might be a daft question, but as I said - Googling it (unless I'm not using the right search phrases) doesn't come up with anything conclusive?!!!?

Ta.
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you can setup email accounts under office 365/outlook, you can also host mail with office 365 instead of on your own server
 
If you mean that you want to have M365 act as your mail server for your domain.co.uk email addresses then I don't believe that's possible with the Home/Family license. You can use the Outlook client by connecting it your your existing mail servers but that's about it.

If you want to have the full mail server capability then you'll need Enterprise licensing which isn't cheap, but you can get it for free via the M365 Developer program: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

This gives you 25 M365 "E5" licenses with all the bells and whistles - Azure AD, Threat protection, ability to use Teams plus all the Office apps including things like PowerBI that you don't get with the Home license. It's valid for 90 days but as long as you are actively using (but not abusing!) it then it auto-renews. I've had my account for a couple of years without problems.
 
El Pew said:
If you mean that you want to have M365 act as your mail server for your domain.co.uk email addresses then I don't believe that's possible with the Home/Family license. You can use the Outlook client by connecting it your your existing mail servers but that's about it.

If you want to have the full mail server capability then you'll need Enterprise licensing which isn't cheap, but you can get it for free via the M365 Developer program: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

This gives you 25 M365 "E5" licenses with all the bells and whistles - Azure AD, Threat protection, ability to use Teams plus all the Office apps including things like PowerBI that you don't get with the Home license. It's valid for 90 days but as long as you are actively using (but not abusing!) it then it auto-renews. I've had my account for a couple of years without problems.
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i like free :) thanks for that
 
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