After putting the YouTube video together for this topic I decided to add those commands that you would need in the video into an article here. First let me back up a bit and explain why you would need this in the first place.
When you sign up for a domain with GoDaddy, you get the option to include an add-on like ‘Email Essentials’. This creates a Microsoft 365 tenant in the background, but binds the GoDaddy front end to all the access and management. So yes you have those email services but the tenant is quite limited in what you can really do. And, the authentication methods run through GoDaddy making it harder to use fully as a proper M365 implementation. Remember though, that this service was not meant to offer M365 functionality, it was the reselling of a service providing email in a secure way to their clients.
I am not knocking GoDaddy for what they are doing, just calling out that you don’t have to migrate your data away from GoDaddy to obtain a full tenant because you already have one. You just need to defederate it from GoDaddy and remove their Admin Access.
That is the reason that I put the video together. To show you what you need to do to get it done. All this can be done over a weekend too, to help remove any potential disruption to the users as they will need to obtain new passwords from you. However, things like mail flow are not interrupted so there is no possibility of losing any inbound email during the cutover process.
So have a look at the video and let me know what you think?
Here are those magical PowerShell commands that I call out in the video that you need.
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "Directory.Read.All","Domain.Read.All","Domain.ReadWrite.All","Directory.AccessAsUser.All" Get-MgDomainUpdate-MgDomain -DomainId "InsertFederatedDomain" -Authentication ManagedThanks for reading, please subscribe to the channel.
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