Overview:
– The client called and asked how to set up a personal domain and email. He has been using a standard Gmail email for his small business, but he has found that my earlier comments (a few years back), regarding how he appears professionally, have raised its head, with a number of his customers.
– He requested 2 emails for operations and would like to procure Microsoft’s Office Suite in the process.
This might seem simple, but it is a process.
We used “Office365” for this implementation.
Implementation:
1- Working remotely with the client, purchased a domain name from Digital Pacific.
2- Setup Office 365 Admin Portal account. To ensure costs are kept to a minimum, recommended 1x “Microsoft 365 Business Standard” plan (which includes full Office Suite) and 1x “Exchange Plan 1” plan for him. At the purchase point, we selected the single “Microsoft 365 Business Standard” plan for account setup.
3- Once the account was setup, we added the secondary account, purchasing the required licensing in the process.
4- Now we needed, within the Office365 Admin Portal, to verify his domain. We then added the required DNS to his domain DNS at Digital Pacific. After a short period, the domain was verified.
5- Logging in to the client’s primary Microsoft email account, downloaded and installed Microsoft’s Office Suite.
6- Using Outlook, set up clients 2 new emails and tested external operations. Additionally, added his Gmail account to Outlook and initiated PST Outlook Data File (.pst) archive, downloading client emails from Gmail.
7- On completion, uploaded all previous emails to Outlook. The email archive was them archived to an external hard drive.
8- Finally, on Gmail, created a “Forwarder” and an “Out-of-Office” signature detailing that the client has moved to new email address.
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