Host our website on external host provider, our domain on GoDaddy and Email on Office 365

Question

We are a startup company and we have the following:-

1) Office 365 tenant.

2) Our domain is purchased from GoDaddy.

3) We are planning to host our external web site on host provider.

currently inside our GoDaddy account, we have the following settings, where we defined Office 365 name servers:-

and inside Office 365 we have the following DNS settings:-

but we are not receiving emails to our office 365 emails. So how we can fix receiving emails to our Office 365?

Second question, we are planning to host our asp.net core mvc web application inside 3rd host provider which represents our external website,, so what setting we need to apply inside Office 365 and inside GoDaddy? to host external web site inside 3rd pary host provider & our email inside Office 365?

Thanks

Answer 1

It looks like it was configured correctly and works.
The page you see looks like a placeholder for an empty website. You need to deploy your website to the IP address you provided in "A" record.

Answer 2

Did you make the changes recently? The Nameservers changes can take up to 48 hours.

about hosting an application:
First, you need to decide what is better for you to use for NS Servers: GoDaddy or Microsoft 365. It does not matter much.
Then once you set up DNS for your application, you do it at the same place where your NS servers are.
As I see on the screenshot, you trying to manage your domain using Microsoft NS servers, so you can stop using GoDaddy completely and do all your configuration in Office 365
For your website, you would need to create an "A" record and point it to the IP address of your website and a "CNAME" record for www and point to the hostname of your website.

Answer 3

Hello @john john

Thank you for posting on this community space.

I wonder if you have reviewed the next link which seems to be very relevant to check it out if any missing step was not done for your case scenario as it is shown down below:

https://zatta.link/en/various/how-to-setup-exchange-online.html

If you feel I am missing any details please correct me or do not hesitate to let me know

Have a good one!

Cheers,

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Answer 4

@john john

From the above pictures, we can know that you don't verify your domain name on your tenant successfully.

If you want to use a customized domain name for your Office 365 tenant, you need to follow this article to verify it on Microsoft 365 admin center: Add a domain to Microsoft 365

After you verify your domain name for your tenant (Point DNS record to your tenant), I think you will cannot use this domain for other website, because you cannot point the DNS record to two different endpoint.

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