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Configure a domain for Microsoft Office 365
Updated
by Reinhold Friedl
1. Start Domain Check
- Sign in to Office 365 as an Administrator
- Select “Administrator” in the top menu and then “Domains” under “Administration” on the left.
- To add a new DOMAIN, click on the "Add domain" link
- On the following page, enter your DOMAIN in the selection field and click on "Check domain"
- To rule out typing errors, the registration data for the DOMAIN will be displayed. Please confirm the correctness of the DOMAIN with "continue".
Microsoft will now verify that you are allowed to use the domain. To do this, you must create a TXT entry in the DNS for the DOMAIN. Copy the "destination" for the DNS record. You find the settings in the table in the "Destination or referral address" column (e.g. MS=ms987654321).
2. Create a name server entry
Log into the PowerDNS-Admin (directly or initially via the customer area) and edit your domain as follows:
- Click "Add Record+"
- choose the type TXT
- Paste the target MS=ms9876543231 copied earlier in point 1 into the Data field. The Name field remains empty.
The new DNS entry should look like in the image below.
- Complete the process with Save.
3. Complete Domain Verification
To start checking the DOMAIN,
- log back into Office 365.
- Go to Admin >> Domains and click the Pending Review link next to your DOMAIN. You will be taken back to the DOMAIN verification.
- Click the Verify link at the bottom of the page to start the verification. If you receive a message that the DNS record was not found, try again a bit later.
It can take up to 48 hours for the new name server entries to take effect and for Office 365 to be able to access them.
4. Configure Domain
After successful verification by Microsoft, you will be redirected to the Edit Name Server Records page. You will receive information on how to adjust the name server entries for your DOMAIN. Click on "Next" and on the next page on "Finish".
The table shows an example of a configured DNS zone based on the domain "example-domain.at".
Name | Type | Status | TTL | Data |
@ | TXT | Active | 600 | "v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com a:spf.edis.at -all" |
@ | MX | Active | 600 | 10 example-domain-at.mail.protection.outlook.com. |
@ | NS | Active | 86400 | ns1.edis.global |
@ | NS | Active | 86400 | ns2.edis.global |
@ | A | Active | 600 | 91.227.205.222 |
autodiscover | CNAME | Active | 600 | autodiscover.outlook.com. |
_sip._tls | SRV | Active | 3600 | 100 1 443 sipdir.online.lync.com. |
_sipfederationtls._tcp | SRV | Active | 3600 | 100 1 5061 sipfed.online.lync.com. |
enterpriseenrollment | CNAME | Active | 600 | enterpriseenrollment.manage.microsoft.com. |
enterpriseregistration | CNAME | Active | 600 | enterpriseregistration.windows.net. |
lyncdiscover | CNAME | Active | 600 | webdir.online.lync.com. |
sip | CNAME | Active | 600 | sipdir.online.lync.com. |
* | A | Active | 600 | 91.227.205.222 |
