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Custom/Vanity domain name/URL for Sharepoint Online
Hi,
I would like to change the default Sharepoint.com URLs to company's URLs, so:
1) contoso.sharepoint.com => sharepoint.contoso.com
2) contoso-my.sharepoint.com => mysharepoint.contoso.com
3) contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/abc => sites.contoso.com/abc
How can this be configured?
Thanks,
I know this thread is old - but after seeing over 200 Office 365 customer tenants I have encountered one with Microsoft supported vanity URL.
https://customer.sherpoint.com -> https://apps.customer.com
Looking at the DNS record for apps.customer.com shows a CNAME to:
prodnetXXXX-XXXXedgevanityXXXXX.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net
and the customer's Office 365 instance uses their custom domain name and SSL certificate (not issued by Microsoft).
How this has been achieved is still a mystery to me - and I am continuing to investigate.
Cheers,
James.
- I work in a very large company and they are using their own domain i.e. sp.mycompany.com. Even our own one drive is customized, i.e. mydrive.mycompnay.com. I am so curious how they did it.
JPSiglos your company's Office 365 deployment was created on BPOS-D/Office 365 Dedicated, not generic Office 365. At that time during the onboard process, we asked customer to send their wildcard certificate to us so we could manually configure them on F5 load balancers. This was only for large enterprise and government customers (with few exceptions). I don't think this offer still exists today.
James Boman Hi James - really interesting find! Have you discovered any further on how this was accomplished by chance? My organization is interested in pursuing all efforts to finding how this can be done vs standing up a whole new tenant. Would love to hear your efforts/progress thus far!
Im wondering about to have a IIS internal in company to fake url's for sharepoint online.
Anyone have try this approach?
then i can create a cname in my internal dns, point it to an iis who move all requests to sharepoint online.
- @james
Any luck with finding out more about how this was done? Our co is in the same boat.- Hi All,
TL;DR - This is a legacy config, not available for new deployments.
It turns out in the early history of SharePoint Online (BPOS) there was a group (~75) of large customers (>20,000 seats) that couldn't accept some of the initial deficiencies in the online service - so Microsoft hosted some of the on-premises pieces for them and called it the "Legacy Dedicated" version. As time went on, Microsoft gradually changed out the on-prem parts with the same online parts we are all using today, until all that remained is the custom domain name and SSL handling pieces. While completely supported by Microsoft, this is unfortunately not a configuration that can be requested for new deployments.
Cheers,
J.
I cannot believe I cannot use a cname DNS record to go to the root of my office365 site. Beyond frustrating.
That is not currently possible in SharePoint Online
- hmm, I see. Thanks for that.
It's pity actually, an enterprise level service like Office 365 should facilitate these.
Even Google Suite has these simple features.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/112038?hl=en
https://support.google.com/a/answer/2518318
https://support.google.com/a/answer/53340while that may be true, Office 365 has hundreds of features that are not available in GSuite and many corporations are leaving that platform because of them.
You can create a Smart Link with your own DNS that points to a SharePoint Online site collection. We use this for easy reference, but it is just a redirect, not a custom domain.
For example intranet.[domain].com goes to [domain].sharepoint.com/sites/intranet.
Thanks for that.
This is an article from nearly 7 years back. I've seen it before, however, was hoping that Microsoft would've added this feature.
Is this still the case or has Microsoft added the option to have vanity domain in private sharepoint online collections?
Thanks,
No, unfortunately. You can create a cname on DNS
Haneef Ibn Ahmad wrote:
Thanks for that.
This is an article from nearly 7 years back. I've seen it before, however, was hoping that Microsoft would've added this feature.
Is this still the case or has Microsoft added the option to have vanity domain in private sharepoint online collections?
Thanks,
but that is about it. This is one of the reasons why choosing a good tenant name is important.
I've built a product called customDomainer which solves this issue.
You can plug-in your public SharePoint site and choose a custom domain at which you'd like the site to be available. Everything works instantly.
You can get started here, if you're interested: https://customdomainer.co/
- A SharePoint Online plugin that does allow you to have Short URLs and some choice in custom domains is here: https://www.shorturlapp.com/
I have used this app in the past mainly to create (duh) short URLs and able to move sites inside SharePoint while maintaining their Short URLs.
It is not exactly what you requested but could come in handy.
