Office 365 without email

[badders]

Is there anyway to setup Office 365 for a domain without also setting up Exchange Online? Is it also possible to then add Exchange Online at a later date and import mailboxes from Exchange 2010?

[Boredguy]

Yes to all questions

 

You can choose what part of 365 you want enabled, and even what parts of the licence you assign to users

[FN-GM]

Office 365 is just a brand for Exchange, Skype for Business and Shrepoint online. You can pick and choose what components you want. Even down to user level.

[badders]

So the steps I would need to take are:

 

Verify the domain I want to use.

Choose which services I need.

Change the UPN of the AD users I want to sync.

Sync AD to Office 365.

Assign licences to the synced users.

[Boredguy]

Correct, that's the 5 basic steps.

[Jawloms]

These are the notes I made to achieve O365 without Exchange;

 

Once the users have appeared in the Office 365 Dashboard, the location needs to be set and they need to be assigned a license. These commands are entered on the server running DirSync using the Azure PowerShell.

 

1. Connect to MS Online Services

 

connect-msolservice

 

Type in Office 365 Dashboard admin credentials when prompted.

 

 

2. Set Location

 

Get-MsolUser -All -UnlicensedUsersOnly | Set-MsolUser -UsageLocation GB

 

 

 

3. Check Available Licenses

 

Get-MsolAccountSku | fl AccountSkuId

 

 

4. Assign a Package

 

$O365Licenses = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId DebenhamHighSchool:STANDARDWOFFPACK_IW_STUDENT -DisabledPlans EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD, MCOSTANDARD

Get-MsolUser -All -UnlicensedUsersOnly | Set-MsolUserLicense -AddLicenses "debenhamhighschool:STANDARDWOFFPACK_IW_STUDENT" -LicenseOptions $O365Licenses

 

 

All previously unlicensed users should now be assigned Office 365 access and be able to log in using their school email address and password.

[badders]

We already use Office 365 for students on a different domain, would there be any problem adding a different domain for staff.

[FN-GM]

Nope will be fine. We are an academy trust and have multiple schools on the same tenant. Each academy has a unique domain.

[jaminben]

No problem, we use ours with 3 different domains... testing, staff and students.