View the health of Office 365 as any outage or problem will show on the message center.

Settings: This is where you can specify additional domains, org settings, etc.

Log a support ticket or view your tickets.

When the page appears, you can…Ĭlick on the “Go to Setup” blue button, and a new tab will open, and this will take you to the home page of, where you can now perform some of the following functions, just to mention a few: Once you click “sign up,” the middle of the screen will say that the account is being created and you should not refresh the page until it takes you to the last part. Now click the Next button to move to the second part, and this is where you will create a user ID and password, as shown below: In this example shown above, my domain is already used in Office 365, but I just enter a “za” at the end. Enter in the details as shown below to check if it is available: Once you have entered the code to verify that you are not a robot, you will be asked to set up your company’s domain, something like. (Take note that the number below is just for illustration purposes.): Once that has been filled in you will be asked to verify the phone number and you can do so by clicking the “Send Verification Code” blue button as shown below.

Select your country and then click Next.

Next, you need to fill in the following details: Step 1 asks you to enter in your email address if it does not find it, then you need to create an account which will take you to step 2. To start with this process, head over to the Office 365 Trial Tenant, which can be found here. Fortunately, Microsoft makes the process relatively easy to understand and you can set up a trial tenant if you want to test things out first and get familiar with it. Setting up a Microsoft 365 tenant is not difficult. A tenant is your company’s unique identifier with Microsoft.

To get this ball rolling, you first need to create a tenant on Microsoft 365. This sounds great, but moving to Microsoft 365 from your on-premises Exchange -Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016, or Exchange 2019 - can be daunting. With Exchange 2010 support ending in October 2020, many companies have fast-tracked their migrations to Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365, among other things, is email in the cloud that is hosted and managed by Microsoft.

In different IT departments, it is referred to as O365, 365, Office 365, or Microsoft 365. Many companies still using Exchange Server are thinking of moving to Microsoft Office 365, now known as Microsoft 365, has been around for several years.

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