Hi, I’ve migrated my family to Office 365 and am trying to figure out a better way to manage everything. I have two domains – www.1stdomain.com and www.2nddomain.com. (made up, of course...!) The first is an Office 365 account I’ve had for a few months and there’s only one account on it – dan@1stdomain.com. I use that as my primary non-work related email. I have a brief webpage there and I do use the Sharepoint Online a lot. The second domain is the family domain – I have a need for three email accounts, but actually created a fourth to manage those mailboxes. So I have a dan, susan, lisa, & tom mailbox on 2nddomain.com. I went ahead and signed everybody up for the P1 plan as I’d like to be able to use IM and PC calling for all of us.
I have a few questions though…
* Ideally I’d like to have four accounts instead of five. I get that each user needs to have an account. It would be very nice if I could manage dan@1stdomain.com and then add susan, lisa, and tom accounts from the 1stdomain.com admin login - all in the same console. I see that you can add multiple domains to the control panel but am unsure whether I will be able to buy four licenses under the dan@1stdomain.com domain and then add a susan@2nddomain.com, etc. via the 1stdomain.com home page. My goal is to simply have a different online identity for my vs. the family. I "own" both of the domains and have them registered at Network Solutions.
* My second question is whether I can easily create an email alias? Suppose I just have that one account – dan@1stdomain.com. But what if I own rock.com, paper.com, scissors.com. Can I create a dan@rock.com, dan@paper.com, and dad@scissors.com and point them all towards dan@1stdomain.com? If so, is this one Office 365 account or four?
Many thanks,
dan