Office 365 and own email?

[Spit]

I have a personal Office 365 account and I only use it for Office and Onedrive. I have a couple of my company email addresses on our own server, can I utilise my 365 account for these?

 

[Django x2]

You have to configure O365 to use the company domain so that any mail is sent to O365 instead of the company email server. When you verify that you own the domain in O365, it configures MX records and other DNS bits.

 

[Spit]

Ok thanks. Can you do it on a personal account or is it only business?

 

[Django x2]

I believe any O365 subscription can claim and configure an owned domain

 

[stoofa]

But you'll need an Exchange Online subscription too I'd have thought.

 

[Energize]

Yeah you need a subscription for each email account.

 

[Django x2]

Yeah you need a subscription for each email account.

No, you need a license for each email account. I assume that's what you meant?

One tenant can have multiple domains each with their unique email and one person can have one email that receives email to all those domain only using one license, if so desired.

 

[Energize]

Yeah licence and subscription are synonyms.

 

[stoofa]

Knowing how reliable the hosted exchange platform is, I'd love to move my main domain over to it. However as it's "all or nothing" I'd need to move all of the email accounts associated with the domain - wife, brother, mother etc.
Cannot warrant the £3/month per mailbox.
But it is a really stable platform

 

[Django x2]

Yeah licence and subscription are synonyms.

Apart from with O365 where a subscription is synonymous with tenant and license is something you give to an individual to consume a service (Exchange / SharePoint, etc)

 

[Caged]

It's not really all or nothing - you can choose to route certain addresses to certain destinations, so carry on delivering mail to an existing server.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn751020(v=exchg.150)#Part1configmail