Best way to change my outlook.com email address while keeping old one temporarily

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Best way to change my outlook.com email address while keeping old one temporarily

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I wish to change my current outlook.com email address. I have some issues with spam and most of all it's just outdated due to the name I was using at that time. My question is what is the best way to go about this:
-It will take time to know I have already updated everyone to the new email address so I want to temporarily keep my old email address so I can use both the new and old gmail address until I know everyone is updated.
-I have seen that I can't simply go in to change my email address which is probably not what I'd want to do anyway since it means I'd lose my old one. I use a lot of Microsoft's services. I have a lot of data on OneDrive and have a Microsoft 365 subscription. I obviously want all of this with my new email address.
What is the best way to go about this? Is there a way to simply create a new outlook.com email address address, basically a new account, and migrate all that information over and simply keep the old email address until I know it's no longer needed? Is it possible though to create a new email address for my Microsoft Account but yet keep the old one active and use it alongside the new one until I know everyone has the new email address.

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Answer 1

Hi. I'm Brian and I'll try to help.

This forum is dedicated to problems using Outlook for Mac. Issues with your Microsoft account are handled in a different forum.

The best way to change addresses is to log into https://account.live.com/names/manage and add a new @outlook.com alias, then give that alias out to people. Email sent to either address will arrive in your Inbox because both addresses are for the same mailbox. At some point in the future if you wish to eliminate the old address, make the new address the primary alias (which you can do at any time if you wish) and then delete the original. That deletion is immediate and permanent. My preference is to keep the original alias. You'll still get email sent to the old address in case there's someone who has it and you've forgotten to update them.

What you can also do, but it's not as optimal, is create a new account and access them both, but you'll need to use a mail client (like Outlook for Mac) if you wish to move data from the original account to the new one. Using aliases means that no mail needs to move.

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great.

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