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When you create a SharePoint Online site collection, Microsoft Online Services uses the name of the domain you have selected as your default domain to build an address (URL) for your site collection. Your site collection URL will be in one of two formats. For example:
Because SharePoint Online site collection URLs are built using your default domain, and there are two types of default domains, there can be two formats of site collection URLs. The types of default domains are:
When you sign up for Microsoft Online Services, you are asked to provide a domain name. We use that domain name to build your trial Microsoft Online Services domain. For example, if you provide the name contoso, we create a domain for you that looks something like contoso-1.microsoftonline.com. This trial domain is intended for use while you’re evaluating Microsoft Online Services, and for companies that don’t want to register a domain name with a domain registrar.
If your trial domain is selected as your default domain when you create your site collection, your site collection URL will be formatted like https://contosomicrosoftonline-1.sharepoint.microsoftonline.com.
If your company has registered one or more domains with a domain registrar, you can add them to Microsoft Online Services. Using a registered domain allows you to use a shorter domain name that’s easier to remember. For example, if your company has registered the contoso.com domain, you can add it to Microsoft Online Services, and make contoso.com your default domain.
If your registered domain is selected as your default domain when you create your site collection, your URL will be formatted like https://Contoso-1.sharepoint.microsoftonline.com.
Adding your registered domain to Microsoft Online Services can be a little tricky. Before you start, you must have:
When you’re ready, you can find more information about adding and verifying domains by searching for “domain registrar” in Microsoft Online Services Help and How-to.
If you have added one or more domains to Microsoft Online Services, you can select your default domain on the Domains page in the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center.
The URL assigned to a SharePoint Online site collection when it is created can’t be changed. If you want to change the URL associated with a site, you must specify a different defalut domain and create a new site collection.
Yes. If you have added several different registered domains to Microsoft Online Services and verified that you own them, you can create site collections based on each domain by selecting each of them your default domain before you create the site collection. For example, let’s say that your company has registered two domains: example.com and contoso.com. If you make example.com your default domain and then create a site collection, the URL of that site collection will look like https://example-1.sharepoint.microsoftonline.com. Next, you can make contoso.com your registered domain and create another site collection with a URL that looks like https://contoso-1.sharepoint.microsoftonline.com.
Yes. When you do that, the number portion of the site URL will be incremented by one for each site. For this example, let’s assume that you have registered and verified the contoso.com domain, and selected that as your default domain. If you create three site collections based on that domain, your site URLs will look like:
If your default domain is your trial domain that looks like contoso-1.microsoftonline.com, and you create three site collections based on that domain, your site URLs will look like:
For more information about creating a SharePoint Online site collection, see Create a SharePoint Site.
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#fail. Ask for comments, yet not accepting comments, it get's my boils cooking over. Thanks for nothing.
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If your experience is different, let me know and I'll investigate.
Thanks,
JRG
It's me Mario :) No, seriously, it's me Kimmo.
#fail comment was made by me. Check my IP ;)
I signed up, will propably forget the signin details. Why not use live? I don't like identity sprawl.
Anyway, I provided some good feedback, yeah as anonymous, but with my own name. "profanity or other objectionable material" was very far away, none of such, except some totalitarian person thinks it's "objectionable" to relate simple technical details. Again, check my IP. And yes, I'm hurt by being sidetracked in the first place. Not exactly my normal experience when dealing with Microsoft.
I'll wait for your comments until mid next week, in all fairness.
Until then. On topic:
Sharepoint URL:s are utterly crap by itself, but made even worse by BPOS. The wildcard certificate as used by BPOS forces wild domain names. You're totally out of luck with using anything normal such as intranet.company.com. I wont meantion the even more bothersome issues as of now since it's off topic.
My affair of intrest is not within the lousy sharepoint experience but rather within Exchange Online. While I know that the federated identity will be released sometime this year I'm also fully aware that there's nothing like a MAPI (aka. online. hah!) experience anywhere to see, just the RPC/HTTPS (aka. offline. hah!) "Outlook Anywhere" thing. Well... I would like to have MAPI, MAPI Proxy, Gateway, something. Aside of me, a LOT of other people would want that too. Please tell me what you're going to do with these issues, sometime, anytime, soon?
#fail 2
"If your experience is different, let me know and I'll investigate."
False
Also, you guys ask for comments, encourage discussion, while totally failing to participate. You sail your ship under a false flag, that's plain and obvious.
For my personal reflection I've always felt that the Microsoft Online group was off in a very weird way. My encounters within the partner meetings have all been very awkward. When asking any simple question I just get a face with varient degees of the color red, no answer. Ever. For being honest, that is also very much because some partners feel that they are stolen. While I do not hold that position I certainly do understand those that do, particulary within the SMB segment.
I'm so extremy disapponted on the total lack of open and honest discussion, and even more so for the lack of discussion on the technogy grounds.
If you see some concideration in that I'm saying please feel free to comment. Also, if you wish, contact me by my corporate mail as registred with this account. Last and not least, for the sake of form, please reinsert my first censorshiped comment, even though I paraprhased it in my comment above.
Kindly / Kimmo Jernstrom
Does anyone has an idea how the online sharepoint service can be addressed via a private domain name such as myspace.mydomain.com ?
Regards,
You cant do that.. Until they (unlike so many other providers do) start allowing you to choose non-SSL or provide your own cert (even self signed would be fine for most) that can be used off your own domain.
Personally, they are way behind on this IMO. Basic hosters provide this service..
Anyone know if "aything.yourdomain.com" will be usable with office 365 update?
Can I change the url into my domain address?
it suppose to be: sharepoint.mydomain.com?
Like redirection?
Are they going to allow us to use our own domain name as the URL--as Eugene and others have said? It makes us as partners look unprofessional when we sell a product and the CEO sees nothing in the URL that looks familiar. Sure, I know we can do a URL redirect, but it looks much more professional when you can link to a SP site that completely masks the fact that it's been hosted by Microsoft. If I were hosting SP, that's how I would do it for my clients.
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