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Brent Waldrop
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Apr 07, 2017

Sending email as alias in office365?

I used to have my domain email hosted in office 365. The reason i switched was because of a lack of a feature i really needed. You had the ability to create multiple aliases in office 365 so you coul...
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James Leonard
Copper Contributor
May 03, 2018

I just migrated my email from GSuite to O365 and I'm slowly learning the pitfalls of O365 that you took for granted on GSuite

 

The only problem with these various solution is that you can really only have 1 alias to send from, as you can't use the same display name.

 

I've got varying versions of my surname e.g. james@surname.xy, james@surname.net.xyz, james@surname.co.xyz.

 

In this scenario I'd create two distribution groups, or shared mailboxes, but they can't have the same display name.. so I'd have to create James L 1 and James L 2 (as an example) but then the from address ends up being James L 1 (james@surname.xy) which is stupid..

 

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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
May 04, 2018

Not sure to understand your problem...

In your scenario, you should have added several domains to the tenant (i.e. "surname.xy", "surname.net.xyz", etc.). Hence you could indeed create separate DLs and/or SMs such as "james@surname.xy", "james@surname.net.xyz", etc., which do appear as senders.