sch.uk to .org

[Mark182]

I have been tasked with organising the move from .lancs.sch.uk to .org - We currently use Office 365 for staff and students and also have Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect set up and working really well. We also have a school website (CMS hosted and managed by county) I'm just looking for any advice from anyone who's made a jump like this. I've also contacted our LEA for advice.

[matt40k]

I wouldn't, just set the .org up as alias.

 

.Sch.uk are only for UK schools and they don't expire.

[Liam]

I have recently done this. Easy enough. I did it with my internally domain (sub domain) too. The hardest but was the upns for office 365.

[synaesthesia]

As above, don't get rid of the .sch.uk - it's permanent, and permanently yours. Plus it's very useful for a few things where you need to prove you're an educational establishment just like having an .ac.uk address, even if it's just an alias. Adding domains in 365 isn't difficult as long as you have access to your public DNS records or have a supportive ISP who does

[Liam]

As above, don't get rid of the .sch.uk - it's permanent, and permanently yours. Plus it's very useful for a few things where you need to prove you're an educational establishment just like having an .ac.uk address, even if it's just an alias. Adding domains in 365 isn't difficult as long as you have access to your public DNS records or have a supportive ISP who does

 

Agreed I just created an alias

[Mark182]

Cheers everyone for the replies.

[Katy]

Not quite the same but similar, we have changed our domain (from our "Sunday Name".com to the name on all the branding.com). I added the new domain to 365, changed everyone's UPN to use this new domain, changed the mail attribute on everyone's AD user and amended everyone's proxyAddresses attribute so that the new domain was the default and the old one was an alias. We didn't do anything like renaming the AD domain (we can't as its set to school.trust.org.uk).

 

(I discovered if you're using ADFS you have to run Set-MsolUserPrincipalName on everyone to go via the onmicrosoft.com address, you can't just move from one federated domain to another for some reason)