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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.co...
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
Any luck with finding out more about how this was done? Our co is in the same boat.
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.