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Adding your Office 365 tenant domain to G Suite

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You need to add your tenant initial domain (that one ending with “.onmicrosoft.com”) to G Suite when you are setting up the coexistence between Gmail and Exchange Online. We will need that to migrate your e-mails to Office 365.

 

Please follow the steps bellow:

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.
  2. From the Admin console dashboard, click More Controls and then Domains.
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  1. Click Add/remove domains.
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  1. Click Add a domain alias.
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  1. Type your tenant’s initial domain (the one ending with “.onmicrosoft.com”) and click the Continue and verify domain ownership button.
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  1. Copy the text shown to the clipboard. Keep this tab open.
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  1. Open a new tab and sign in to your Office 365 Admin Center.
  2. Expand Settings, click Domains and then click on your tenant’s initial domain.
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  1. Click on DNS settings and then on Custom Records to expand them and see the options.
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  1. Click on New custom record button.
    1. Select TXT (Text) from the drop-down
    2. Type @ on the field TXT name
    3. Paste the text from Google Admin console on the TXT value field.
    4. Keep the TTL at 1 Hour
    5. Click Save
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  1. Go back to the tab with the Google Admin console and click the red Verify button.
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  1. Once it finished the verification, you can click the Continue link.
  2. Sign out from Google Admin console and Office 365 Admin center.
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Thanks, Daniel Taylor, for the help!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2016
    Hi Mate, Thanks for that. Quite useful. However what purpose does this give? How would the connectors work from G Suite across to Office365? Any tips and or thoughts.Thank you.
    • Anonymous
      December 01, 2016
      Hello, Manju, thanks for the comment.Ultimately, the purpose is to allow e-mail redirection from Gmail to Exchange Online and vice-versa, which is essential in a coexistence scenario.We start with all mailboxes in Gmail. So, for each account to be migrated, we create a mail user in Office 365 that redirects all e-mails from Exchange Online to Gmail. When we start the mailbox migration, it becomes a mailbox in Exchange Online and a redirection in Gmail. This last part is the one that requires adding your domain to G Suite.Please reach me directly if you need additional information about how we do it at FastTrack Center. You can find me at emiguel @ the usual place.Best,Miguel
  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2017
    I realized test, but isn't work.Is necessary more some configuration?
    • Anonymous
      January 25, 2017
      Hello, DavidThere is no additional configuration beyond what is explained on the blog post. However, it applies to the tool we use for G Suite migration at FastTrack Center. That being said, it really depends on the tool you are using and what you want to accomplish.If you are talking about a FTC customer, please reach out to your FastTrack Engineer or FastTrack Manager. If that's not the case, send me an e-mail: emiguel at the usual place.Best,Euclides
  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2017
    There's actually a faster way to achieve email coexistence with Gmail that I wrote about several years ago:https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/undocumentedfeatures/2015/09/30/configure-coexistence-mail-routing-without-a-secondary-routing-domain/