Moving hosted O365 email from GoDaddy to Microsoft with a standalone Azure tenant

Question

Good afternoon! I am working with my customer to migrate their Office 365 Mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams from GoDaddy directly to Microsoft. GoDaddy automates much of this with a high level migration overview of:

1. Approval
2. Creation of a new O365 tenant
3. Provision new licensing
4. GoDaddy migrates everything
5. Verification and testing

It's pretty simple. That said, this specific customer also has a stand-alone Azure environment that the need to retain. They are using email addresses from the same domain we are migrating above. We have created a separate admin account that is NOT tied to the domain just for a contingency plan.

a. Does anyone see any problems with this configuration? Will they still be able to login to this Azure environment with the domain credentials used on O365? (albeit maybe with an updated password?) I'm not clear how the two services are "linked" currently.
b. Any way to link/tie the Azure environment to the new O365 environment once the migration is complete?

Thanks in advance for any clarity!

Answer 1

A few months ago, I did a Migration from 0365 From GoDaddy to a Standalone O365 tenant and I had some issues.

First, you won't be able to register your domain with the new tenant. You will receive an error message telling you that the domain is already registered in a tenant.

To Goddy remove the relationship, they will delete your account. So you already had your backup.

In my case, I couldn't backup the emails because in GoDaddy I didn't have a role to extract the PSTs, so I did a manual backup of the email.

I had to create the user manually in the new tenant.

Sorry for not bringing good news about my experiences.

I recommend you validate the pain points that I shared with you.

Hope this helps!

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