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Implications choosing Tenant name for Office 365
Hi there, I am currently starting a deployment of Office 365 and the first choice is what to use as the tenant name. The actual company name has already been taken so I am looking at possible alt...
As you've said - the tenant name will only be visible in SharePoint/OneDrive and related resource.
If you want to use a vanity URL (eg. intranet.yourdomain.com) then you'll need to host your own server to perform a 302 redirect, however this will only be on initial request and also introduces a point of failure.
My suggestion would be to make the tenant domain match the organisation name as close as possible.
I've seen a school call their tenant "go247.sharepoint.com" because they wanted the fancy URL - but now it's stuck and doesn't reflect their school name at all.
Don't put country codes into the tenant name unless you absolutely never intent to expand to another country. I have seen a government agency do that when their name was already used, but as they are a state-based government agency it wasn't a big deal.
If you want to use a vanity URL (eg. intranet.yourdomain.com) then you'll need to host your own server to perform a 302 redirect, however this will only be on initial request and also introduces a point of failure.
My suggestion would be to make the tenant domain match the organisation name as close as possible.
I've seen a school call their tenant "go247.sharepoint.com" because they wanted the fancy URL - but now it's stuck and doesn't reflect their school name at all.
Don't put country codes into the tenant name unless you absolutely never intent to expand to another country. I have seen a government agency do that when their name was already used, but as they are a state-based government agency it wasn't a big deal.