Aug 12 2021 10:38 AM
Hi -- is there a way to link a non-Microsoft email to my Microsoft 365 account?
I run a (very) small company. Everyone has a Microsoft 365 Business account, which we use for the software suite, file sharing, and Teams chatting, etc. We use Google Workspace for our email. To log into our Microsoft 365 accounts we use a Microsoft email address (ie. sofia@mycompany.onmicrosoft.com). Everywhere else we use our company email (ie. sofia@mycompany.com).
This is mostly fine, except when someone from outside our organization wants to share files with us or invite us to a Team. I either have to accept with my company email (sofia@mycompany.com) and use Teams, etc. in a browser, or ask them to use the Microsoft email (sofia@mycompany.onmicrosoft.com). Both options are awkward with clients.
Is there a way to just link sofia@mycompany.com with sofia@mycompany.onmicrosoft.com ? Am I missing something obvious?
I hope this question makes sense!
Aug 12 2021 10:47 AM
Aug 12 2021 12:08 PM
Thanks for the response. For a number of reasons, we want to keep our Google Workspace. What I'm hoping for is a way to allow people to invite me to join their Team or collaborate on Sharepoint using my non-M365 email address. Does that make sense?
Aug 12 2021 02:40 PM
Aug 13 2021 09:30 AM
Dec 10 2023 05:05 AM
@sofiazander Bravo. Very sensible desire, mirrored. Seems absurd that we have to have: a) a new identity and b) that new identity is the only one that MS365 uses for all critical functions. As ever, Microsoft techs decide how it works, and we adapt to them. Someday the world will solve that problems in a way that suits the users. Wouldn't that be something?