Five Best Practices for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Domain Transfers

Domain Name plays a vital role in your organization, because it lays the foundation to support all business applications. After you have completed your content migration during a cross-tenant consolidation project and your users are working from the new target tenant, it is time to transfer the domain name space to the remaining tenant. This post outlines the five best practices to do this.

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Richard Dean and Lenny Yu

6/28/20221 min read

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Standardized Exchange Online Accepted Domain Transfers Ensure a Seamless User Experience

Domain Name plays a vital role in your organization because it lays the foundation to support all business applications. For example, it is utilized to establish your corporate identity, email delivery, and authentication. After you have completed your content migration during a cross-tenant consolidation project and your users are working from the new target tenant, it is time to transfer the Exchange Online domain name space to the remaining tenant if it will continue to be used by the new organization. Unlike migrating traditional content such as mail, files, and devices, moving a domain in an office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration is a monolithic, multi-step, and risky procedure. In this guide, you will learn five (5) best practices for moving your domains between Microsoft 365 tenants. These best practices are designed to assist migration administrators in the deployment of a well-orchestrated, standardized process from planning to execution to ensure a seamless user transition with little or no email downtime. 

In this blog series, we will provide a detailed project workflow that can be adapted for your project purposes. We will list our top 5 must-do best practices for any upcoming domain move project. Finally, we’ll break it all down into the details you want with a comprehensive set of best practices for you to consider when planning your next Cross-Tenant domain migration project.

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