How connect Outlook to Office 365 without change the MX record of the domain yet

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I want connect my Outlook to Office 365 without change (yet) the MX record. On Outlook I've already an IMAP account to the current mail server and I want copy and paste only a few email manually. When all will work I'll change the MX record and I'll switch the current mail server off.

I've changed my record autodiscover.mydomain.com to autodiscover.outlook.com but unfortunately I can't authenticate on Office 365 because my default address (domain) at present is mydomain.onmicrosoft.com and not mydomain.com. I can't change default domain because I've not changed the MX record..

Best Answer

The answer to your question goes into two parts:

  • Change the domain name: As far as I know, you can change the default domain name of your subscription without the need to add an MX record. so you may need to look again at your setup and insure that you have followed the steps to configure the domain correctly.

Step 1: https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Verify-your-domain-in-Office-365-6383f56d-3d09-4dcb-9b41-b5f5a5efd611?ui=en-US&rs=en-AU&ad=AU

Step 2: https://support.office.com/en-au/article/Change-your-default-domain-for-email-in-Office-365-1bd69e1c-9598-49ce-b341-9ac895dbe681

  • Email migration: why are you doing it the hard way? since you're clients are running on IMAP, perform an IMAP migration, it take a bit of time to setup but it can't get easier than this, your users won't need to be reconfigured twice but only once, once they login into their new email they will have immediate access to their inbox.

IMAP Migration Steps: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Migrate-your-IMAP-mailboxes-to-Office-365-3fe19996-29bc-4879-aab9-5a622b2f1481