Adding subdomain to GSuite

[Sheridan]

Ok, so I'm considering a subdomain for our G Suite domain to have a managed set of users (i.e governors) so their accounts will be [email protected]

 

We already have the domain school.co.uk in DNS and fully working and in use in G Suite. Is it simply a case of adding a new domain into GSuite and redirecting DNS for the subdomain to the google addresses, or am I missing something obvious?

 

If anyone has done this before I'd be grateful for any pitfalls or advice

[rogerdnixon]

I did a blog post about this a while back: https://wpsit.blogspot.com/2018/10/adding-subdomains-to-g-suite.html

Its a quick and easy thing to do - basically just some DNS settings to add and then you can create users on that domain.

[TwistedHelixis]

Did this recently and was much simpler than I thought it might be. After adding the domain and changing the DNS settings I migrated their emails using the built in migration tool (Admin console) and updated the MX record

[Sheridan]

Cheers,I think the GSuite side is OK its the ISP I'm not sure about, as they let you add a subdomain, but only allow email forwarding on it. Having said that as its a subdomain the MX records should be the same.

[mavhc]

Move your DNS to somewhere better, I just use https://www.namecheap.com/domains/freedns/ worked for all the schools I work at for 10 years with 0 problems

[ZeroHour]

I personally always love Cloudflare for DNS hosting, its one of the fastest out and free.

[mavhc]

Last time I tried it cloudflare required dns to already exist to verify the domain, bit of a chicken and egg situation. Looks like that might have changed now.