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Custom/Vanity domain name/URL for Sharepoint Online
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.
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.Can someone try this and confirm if it works or not?
http://howtomicrosoftofficetutorials.blogspot.com/2017/05/rename-your-sharepoint-online-public.html
pranaysahith I just tried it and unfortunately it no longer works.
At the step in the wizard where you're prompted to choose the domain purpose (that is, the services you want to use with the domain), select only SharePoint Online.
That doesn't seem to be an option for me.
Vander_Pina I have done something similiar using Netscaler ADC URL transform feature and using Nginx.
It should be possible with apache2 and IIS (however never tried).
I literally found this thread searching on whether there is a supported way to do this. Looks like we will continue to use URL transform.
Right - so again, the ask is to just have Microsoft allow us to rename URLs on domains we own. Redirects, self-hosted apache, nginx, hacks, etc. are not what needs to happen. Microsoft, come on already.
Vander_Pina That is what Smart Links do without needing IIS. See my post above from 2018. We use them as easy to remember URLs in our domain that redirect to the SharePoint Online site collection in question.
