{"id":6005,"date":"2015-09-17T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2015-09-12T01:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T00:16:05","slug":"cant-add-a-domain-to-office-365-because-its-already-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/cant-add-a-domain-to-office-365-because-its-already-in-use.htm","title":{"rendered":"Can’t add a domain to Office 365 because it’s already in use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adding a domain name to Office 365 is usually pretty straightforward. That is unless it’s already been used for another tenant that you don’t have access to – perhaps a trial that’s expired? Or someone signed up for some Microsoft Online services using their work email address but doesn’t have administration rights?<\/p>\n

\"Sorry,<\/p>\n

I came across exactly this scenario with a customer\u00a0last week – although luckily we managed to extract ourselves from the situation. Actually, there’s some pretty good documentation from Microsoft on the topic: “How to manage a domain already in use by people in your organization who signed up with their work or school email address<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

What we did was to:<\/p>\n