custom domain email hosting with Exchange, access using outlook desktop

Anonymous
2023-04-19T22:19:11+00:00

I have 365 family subscription. I already have an email with a personal domain registered under the 365 account. I'm looking for the most efficient way to have MS host another (different) domain for another email address. From what I've been able to find, I can only have a single domain under a 365 account (although each 365 user can have an address on that domain). Is this correct?

Also, assuming that is true, it appears that the best way for me to have MS host an additional custom domain email is to add an Exchange online (plan 1) account for a single user. Does that sound like a correct solution? I assume this exchange account will act as a separate account from 365. Should I expect any difficulties when adding that exchange hosted, custom domain email address on outlook desktop under the 365 account?

Thanks for any thoughts

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  1. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-04-21T22:49:56+00:00

    I am an Exchange Plan 1 subscriber at the company where I work. I'm hosting 1 custom domain but there is an option to add more custom domains or sign up for a new domain name. I'm not sure if it costs extra to host multiple custom domains.

    Referring to your post that says this:

    >> I'm not very familiar with exchange so not sure if it works differently in some way versus a 365 hosted email

    I'm not familiar with other Microsoft 365 products but I believe all mail hosting services (offered by Microsoft) use Exchange servers. It is their own product. You may not realize your existing mailbox(es) is (are) hosted on Exchange servers right now.

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  2. Brian Tillman 27,580 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-04-21T22:14:34+00:00

    I glad of was able to contribute.

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  3. Brian Tillman 27,580 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-04-20T19:49:27+00:00

    Have you asked your domain registrar if they also offer Exchange? When used with desktop Outlook, the default account type Outlook.com connects with is Exchange. Exchange syncs all folders: mail, contacts, calendar, tasks and so on. No other account type does that. Changes are you're using Exchange now, but you can check by clicking File>Account Settings>Account Settings and examine the Email tab. The account type will be listed there.

    IMAP syncs just the mail folders and you can use that if you don't care your non-mail folders don't sync. IMAP will work with almost any mail provider.

    If you share your subscription with other family members, you're pretty much locked into Outlook.com as your least expensive alternative. You can continue paying the subscription to keep the right to use the desktop applications but you can use anyone's Exchange for whatever they charge for the mailboxes.

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