Office365 Setup

March 27, 2024


Office365 Setup

Verify your Office365 with a MX Record

The first step is to verify MX Record – Use the MS record you get from Office365 and add a TXT record in Zone Editor.

Record Type: TXT
Name: yourwebsite.com.au.
TTL: 3600
TXT Value: MS=ms0123456789

MX Record is need to set Office365 as the MailServer

MX Record: This record is crucial for directing your domain’s email to Office 365. Make sure you don’t already have a record Priority 0, if so, you will need to edit.

Record Type: MX
Priority: 0
Name: yourwebsite.com.au.
TTL: 3600
TXT Value: yourwebsite-com-au.mail.protection.outlook.com

SPF Record is required so that emails don’t go to spam

TXT Record for SPF: This record helps prevent your emails from being marked as spam. The example IP 100.0.100.100 should your website IP address so that web forms don’t get blocked.

v=spf1 ip4:100.0.100.100 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all

CNAME Records help with redirecting to services, you will be given these from Office365 or your IT Department

CNAME Records: Office 365 may also give you cname records which you may need to add for example:

autodiscover.outlook.com.
sipdir.online.lync.com.