Office 365: Initial Setup On Blacknight Account

There are a number of steps that have to be followed, and completed in full, before you can use your Office 365 subscription: as this is the case, it may not be possible to use the subscription immediately after it is active in your account.

Note: You can skip to Step 2 if you have purchased the subscription directly through our store.

The steps required to setup your Office 365 subscription are as follows - in brief:

Add the main subdomain entry for the onmicrosoft.com domain:

Note: If you purchased the subscription directly through our store, you can skip this part.
This hostname will be linked with your Office 365 subscription.

Add Domains to the Office 365 system.

Note: This step is only required where you are setting up email for your domains, in the Office 365 environment.
This is how you link domains for use with Office 365 i.e. email domains.
Click here to see instructions for this step: Office 365: Add A Domain

Add Users to the Office 365 system.
- This is where you create users for use with Office 365.
- You can also assign licences to users as required.
- Click here to see instructions for this step: Office 365: Add A User.
After following these steps, you would then be ready to start using Office 365.

At this point, Office 365 Users can login with their respective login details.
Click here to see instructions for this step: Office 365: Accessing your Account

Setup access to the Administrative panel for your Office 365 environment:

This will be the main set of login details used to manage the Office 365 system and are typically not used for public use.
These details should be kept safe, and only supplied to those that should have Administrative rights to the Office 365 system.
Click here to see instructions for this step: Office 365: Administration

Step 1: Configuring The Link To Office 365 For Your Subscription

To link your subscription to the Office 365 system, follow the steps below:

Once logged in make sure you select the Office 365 subscription you intend to work on - see image below.

Once you have selected the subscription, you can then click on the menu tab Microsoft Office 365 or Manage (under the Microsoft Office 365 section).

You will then be greeted with the screen as below - here is where you would add the subdomain for use with your subscription.

Note: This should reflect your main domain being added to the Office 365 subscription.

If we use sampledomain.com as an example, you would enter in sampledomain into the box - the result would be as follows:

sampledomain.onmicrosoft.com

Once you are happy with the input for the subdomain you can click Activate.

Note: If you receive the below error, this means there is an existing subdomain already with that name - you will need to input a different subdomain to continue the process.

Error: Request error: 409 Conflict

After a few moments, the page will refresh and you will see a screen similar to the following image.

You are now ready to start configuring the Office 365 subscription, for your domains/users - please refer to the following articles for the next steps:

Step 2: Add Domains to the Office 365 system:

N.B: This step is only required where you are setting up email for your domains, in the Office 365 environment.
Click here to see instructions for this step: Office 365: Add A Domain