Thanks so much for these steps! Your video and blog were straight forward with everything that needed to be done. I was able to complete this in about 15 minutes, purchase a couple licenses for basic no teams as well for some increased storage. I went back to go daddy and created a new user since I had 1 out of 5 left on an essentials package and nothing came over. I wanted to test this to ensure the partnership was severed and they couldn't manage the account anymore.
This total worked 9/11/24. I needed to download MS Project, and I couldn't buy it while my MS365 account was federated. This tutorial was very helpful, and I was able to download the program I needed.
Dude, this was excellent! It has always been a nightmare to move products from GoDaddy to another vendor and that is especially true with email. This will save me hours. First time through this took me about 20 minutes. Next time should take less than 5. I'd spend more than an hour on the phone with GoDaddy and most likely the support person would have screwed up the migration meaning just more phone time. Thanks for taking the time to document this well enough for even a first-time user to succeed.😛
Just want to say thanks! Lifesaver!!! Also, for those not familiar with powershell your first time running it you may need to: Set-ExecutionPolicy * * = Restricted or Unrestricted or Remote (PICK ONE) Restricted is typical default and will not allow you to execute any scripts until changed to another policy Unrestricted means you can execute ANY SCRIPT certified or not Remote allows execution of downloaded scripts with a valid certificate and the execution of manual scripts in powershell
Update: only 1 issue I came across we had to resolve. I was using Proof Point Essentials and Archiving when I was with GoDaddy. After using this tutorial, I just let my GoDaddy subscriptions expire. After the expirations, Proof Point was blocking all my emails because my email addresses were no longer associated with the GoDaddy/PP Essentials account. Turns out there was a leftover GD "connector" in the MS Exchange Admin Center in M365. And because we had removed all the GD rights to the tenant, GoDaddy couldn't do anything to fix it. So after I manually deleted the GD rule and connector and the archiving connector, all my emails came flowing back in and out! This tutorial saved my company nearly $10,000 in traditional migration costs! Thanks you so much the company i used followed the .pdf and were done in about 20min after some prep work.
@@sschaffer64 thanks! I've got a call into them so I'm hoping they can help us as well. Did you have to procure the new licenses with MS365 or did Blade do that on your behalf?
@@jedspencer8583 , I picked them up through Blade. I now just autopay Blade monthly to keep the MS licenses. In the end, I pay less now “directly” to MS (via Blade) than was paying at GD. And now I have access to 100% of the items my license allows. Plus I have the added bonus of Blade’s support and knowledge should something go weird within MS. P.S. I was a little confused about how Mr. Schaffer knew who I used… considering I never mentioned it, until I remembered he’s Blade’s CISO. So yeah… he knew it was me 👍
I tried this today after a lot of research. It worked. The only issues I had were the new powershell 7.xx does not work, I had to use my windows 10 built in version 5.xxx. Had to look at the blog for updated information. The only other issue was that it took time. At first after I defederated it kept going into godaddy login when I tried the admin center, even when I did it from a different computer. I was freaking out a little because I thought I lost access. About 30-45 minutes later I tried the login again and it worked, and i was able to do everything needed. Thanks for the info, this was very useful.
@@saidneder41 I did it between his blog, not the video and chatgpt, I recommend you update powershell and install all graph dependencies, enable execution policies to run commands in your environment if using windows 11.
@saidneder41 are you a tech guy, or a youtube video follower? I'm somewhere in between, and I'm seriously considering attempting this. I need to add MS project for use in my business, and I can't do it with the federation. And GoDaddy says it's a Microsoft problem.
@@marcmacialek9250 heyah Marc, I work as an IT help desk, so I do consider myself a tech guy but just recently got into email systems, I Did it yesterday, it worked great, follow the guide from the tminus365 blog tho since that's with the updated msgraph module, that is a better approach to connect to the workspace through PowerShell, the video is still good is just different commands, it does work great, GoDaddy is not good
I was getting an "Access is denied" error when running the New-PSSession command. I ended up getting into the session with the ExchangeOnlineManagement module and I was able to defederate the domain like normal. It's weird because I didn't have MFA enabled for the admin account which I though might have been the problem. If it works, it works I guess. Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial!
Thank you so much for this. I had no idea I could just de-federate the domain. I do not like the admin panel on Go daddy and with a federated tenant you can't sign into windows with your Azure/Entra ID. That's my main reason for doing all this. Thanks again!!
This video along with the blog worked perfectly!! thank you so much!! I made the mistake of buying email through goddady as I am single user and was strugling to move away from them but this tutorial helped get me out of it! I was unable to reset my password, since i am the admin and only user I assume that's okay?
This is such a great tool sir! GoDaddy 365 is a terrible product from an admin standpoint, and overpriced. I always dread rolling a client off their hosting. This was so simple. Screens have changed a bit as you stated, but still doable as long as you have some knowledge of actual MS 365. Thank you so much for the time you spent on this.
Thank you so much buddy, really appreciated. Your content is absolutely great. Will recommend your channel to everyone. Looking forward to give your tutorial a try. I had 2 quick questions for you: 1) regarding the MX records for both solutions proposed, should I change it in godaddy to point to my azure tenant? Or is that only applicable to solution 2? 2) usually when initially purchasing m365 license through godaddy, does that make them our csp? If yes, what happens after I defederate them? Do I simply remove their rights and It will automatically transfer elsewhere, and if yes where?
Amazing brilliant video, thank you so much for sharing, this has been a game changer. And thank you Nick for the amazing email support really appreciate it :)
How do you assign the new MS license to a user already using the GoDaddy license? How can you distinguish which license is which because they're both just called "M365 Business Standard". I want to ensure a user is already set up on the MS license before the GoDaddy license expires. thanks!
I've always read you can't break away from Godaddy so when I heard about defederation and found your video and site, I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks for the awesome info! Where do I send tips $$$? Godaddy 365 is trash.
This is great! Wish I would of found this tutorial and set the tenant admin before defederating, which left me in GoDaddy Support purgatory. Question, the CSP I'm working with seems to think that I should be able to just ask GoDaddy to enable the Partner migration option instead of doing these with them or myself. Do you still use this process today, or has it been better to work with GoDaddy since then?
This was a great video. I am trying to follow it up and have issues with the Enable-OrganizationCustomization command. Unfortunately, the error is to big to post it here.
Hello, I already bought licenses from a CSP in a separate tenant before i came across this video. I really like solution 1. can i still use it given that i already bought a tenant with the required license? how can i use solution 1 in this scenario?
This is a great thing you have done, sir. Thank You. Seperate Question: How did you set up the PDF to be viewable without having to sign in to your SharePoint? My links keep forcing sign ins.
Hello, I'm looking to complete this process but see that the scripts you run in powershell are different in the write up from the ones in the video. I'm not a developer so don't want to screw anything up. Can you clarify the powershell scripts to Remove Federation with GoDaddy?
Thanks for the video and blog, real lifesaver! I didn't add a new provider or provision licensing as my GoDaddy licensing/email still seems to work fine? Should I?
I have a client with close to 50 licenses with GoDaddy. If I go for option 1, do I need a CSP? Or can I purchase those identical licenses direct from MS? I've been reading a lot of the comments, and I'm really super stoked to rip this bandaid off, for sure. Thanks!!!
My licences with GoDaddy don’t expire until later in the year. If I do this defederation process myself as per you video, can I do it now and the current GoDaddy licences will still continue to work in the defederated tenant, then I can just buy new licences from a CSP later in the year? Or will I have to wait and do the defederation process closer to the licence expiry with GoDaddy? Thanks.
So do you have to get setup with Microsoft as the CSP before you do this, or shortly there after? Is a CSP through Microsoft part of their business licenses? Thanks!
I'm running into an issue... I run Enable-OrganisationCustomization and it works. I check hydration status of tenant and it's reporting all okay. But when run New-ManagementRollAssignment command it says "command you tried to run isn't currently allowed" you first need to run Enable-OrganisationCustomization... which I can't run again now... Any fix?
Might be a weird question, but can we just get in via the powershell, turn it from Federated to Managed and just leave it? More so we have access to everything else within the admin portal and do the other normal tasks. And leave licensing and everything else to GoDaddy? And would you still be able to see their admin console or purchases licenses.
Let me echo a thanks on this tutorial. I have a customer with appx 50 Email Essential accounts with GD and have had this on the to-do list for a bit. A quick question if I may. Of these accounts, the renewal dates range from next month to another year or so out. Once you defederate the domain on GD - will the email account services continue to run on the M365 platform until the GD subscription expires? Or do you have to re-purchase new plans from M365 when the defederation is done? Thanks in advance....MC
In theory they would, but i wouldn't recommend it. The main goal is to remove GD admin rights once you defederate so they dont come back in an re-federate or blow all the users in the account away (stories of them doing this from others who didnt remove their rights). So what i would recommend is performing the defederation right before you are going to have those subscriptions with GD expire OR just spin up the M365 seats now and potentially just eat the cost of the remaining time on the GD subscription.
@@t-minus365 I noticed that you mentioned in another comment that you aren't accepting requests to perform this work yourself. Do you have any recommendations of MSP's that have done this successfully? I sent the video/tutorial to one that my IT guy recommended that could do it and since he hasn't done this for a client before, he didn't want to risk taking on the project if anything went wrong in the process since he's buried with other work at the moment. Realistically, for someone that has done this process previously, how long should it take that individual to do it again for 15 MS365 accounts? Also, per your response above, it sounds like we'd just set up the M365 Business Basic accounts first, after defederating, and then reassign the GD Email Essentials and Email Plus accounts to the new ones?
@@t-minus365 This was another question on my mind. Can I migrate certain users and keep certain of them on godaddy whilst their subscription is running? Or must I do all of it together?
@@t-minus365 May I ask what negative consequences might come from continuing to use subscriptions purchased from GD after defederating and removing GD's admin rights? Because my employer has paid for many subscriptions a year in advance and I don't want to wait too long to try your script. Thanks.
Awesome video! Now assuming I prefer using Microsoft directly and not a CSP, once I remove the federated status and am set to "managed" I can already purchase licenses and get support from Microsoft in the admin center correct?
I would like to Defederate without migration and swing it into another tenant. I also need to move the same domain used for that email to another provider (godaddy to network solutions). Do I do your process first and then migrate the domain from GD to the other provider? Then add to the domain to the new tenant and assign alias to the applicable users?
This was a great video! I've been having issues testing on-prem sync with AD sync and, I think GoDaddy is part of the reason. Side question, any recommendations for reseller to get licenses?
Hi, My domain is showing incomplete setup, but the services are running seamlessly. I am able sent messages on teams and able to use outlook. Shall i proceed to complete setup for domain or shall keep as it is?
Hi, thank you for this great video!! One question, if we choose the approach to move to a new tenant, do we still need to run those power shell scripts? I still can’t quite get the concept of federation and defederation.
Hi, I have done all this, thanks so much. i have removed GoDaddy roles, but it still shows Partner name in admin centre relationship section, although no roles assigned. Is this OK?
After you defederate, can you keep that admin account as the global admin, or do you create a new global admin account separately? Do I have to add a CSP, or can I just manage the tenant as is after godaddy is removed?
Thank you so much. This is awesome. I do have 2 questions. 1: My domains say "incomplete setup". Should I have MS take over or leave it? 2: Can I remove the placeholder godaddy domain?
If you have MS take it over, then the nameservers will move to them as well so you want to be careful there if you have website traffic and things like that. I would suggest just updating the records they show as not complete in GoDaddy. You wont be able to ever remove the placeholder domain from them that the tenant was spun up with. Its tied to all Sharepoint sites and things like that.
Nick, thanks for the video. Is there any way to use the "free" 365 email accounts with GoDaddy and get regular admin access the same as if you purchaed through MS? I want to take advantage of the email, but I also want to leard the Admin console for educational purposes and NOT tie down my domain.
HI Mate, I have done a migration yesterday, but the domain was already defedrated by Godaddy. I have addedd a new license from another CSP and removed godaddy from the CSP partner list.
You Sir are Amazing! Successfully completed a migration with this video and associated guide. Got a few errors along the way, but rerunning the same piece of powershell code, or rerunning the previous code and quickly executing the next one, seem to get it to work.
Hello! If I know password of user, should I reset it or not? Also I've noticed that only Admin center redirects to Godaddy. Azure, Sharepoint, Teams admin centers are ok. Is this video applicable for me?
I'm trying to execute this defederation and I can't even find the part of Azure that I need to access that window. Please help? I signed up for the free account, do I need to pay for Azure to have that access?
Really appreciate your video. Comparing your documentation to Pax8 version it seems that Pax8 have removed the first set of powershell commands before the change from federated to managed. Their PDF guide was updated OCT2021. Are the first set of Powershell commands necessary?
This is a great video and documentation. Thanks you so much for posting this. A question around the reset user passwords (E) in solution 1, we have mailboxes only no office (purchased through GoDaddy) which are setup with the vanity domain. We obviously want to retain these mailboxes within the MS direct tenant, will these vanity emails be fine as UPN's or do we need to update these with the onmicrosoft domain? As we only have mailboxes, I'm presuming that we could carry out points A to E and not lose any data and after this purchase our licensing of business premium directly from Microsoft and allocate the users their business premium licenses. Many thanks
Does this migrate everything like their OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams? I assume so but just want to make sure. Also if they use GoDaddy to host their website, could they just cancel their Microsoft licenses after we buy them and keep their website hosted through GoDaddy still?
@T-Minus365 - Thank you so much for the video! I still have an ongoing issue though where it always says "Your Browser is a Bit Unusual" when I try to login into GoDaddy 365. I literally can't do it in any browser or any device. Any ideas so I can take my email back?
anyone able to get refunds from GoDaddy for unused months you have subscribed to before the migration? Looking to do this and I am seeing within 30 days. Is this process still the same since this video released a couple years ago?
@@t-minus365 I've been working through this on my Mac using the script in your blog, I'm getting roadblocks though that I'm having a hard time navigating. [Set-MsolDomainAuthentication: The term 'Set-MsolDomainAuthentication' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.]
@@t-minus365 Thanks for the response! One more question, if I were to defederate the domain and keep the existing tenant, would I then be able to purchase licenses for some of the Microsoft add-ons (like Power BI, Dynamics 365, etc.) that GoDaddy doesn't allow access to?
@@t-minus365 Can't seem to get past "Connect-Msolservice." Getting the error, "The term 'Connect-Msolservice' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program..." Could it be that I'm 1) on a Mac; and/or 2) running PowerShell 7.2.6?
Well executed. FYI your website post for this subject has a broken plugin. And, when taking over the admin account, you say MFA must not be configured for obvious reasons. Is that to say that GoDaddy GA role is not MFA enabled? That doesn't seem like a good policy imo. I assume, if it is enabled a call to Godaddy would be in order.
Thank you for the heads up. Got that fixed. I only mentioned the lack of MFA due to the exchange online powershell cmdelts being run not supporting mfa. You can and should enable mfa on all GA accounts after. I could probably update to use EOPv2 which does support 2fa.
Could you keep GoDaddy as your CSP? We have a three year contract prior IT signed with GoDaddy and want to loop ourselves out of it but no pay for re-licensing.
Hi, a quick question, I use my email hosted with goDaddy (Microsoft 365) and I am part of Microsoft parter program, and I have a new tenant with Microsoft 365 that I want to migrate my GoDaddy to. This process will affect my access to my Microsoft portal in any way? Thank you all in advance.
Great video. I ran into an issue though. I enabled customization for the tenant. I also verified that the tenant is hydrated, but when I run the New-ManagementRoleAssignment line, it gives me an error saying I need to first run Enable-OrganizationCustomization. If I try to run that again, I just an error saying my organization is already enabled for customization. Any idea?
My company works with nonprofits that are often sucked into 365 promo's that Go Daddy runs as part of packages for domain/website hosting service. If I'm understanding this correctly, they won't need to export ost/pst files unless they want to back them but there will be an issue with their sharepoint url/data?
What do you mean an issue with sharepoint urls/data? Currently in your mentioned situation. Don’t want to migrate just yet but need to just worried about covering all the angles
If I migrate from GoDaddy Office 365 to Microsoft Office 365, will the Teams chats messenges also be migrated? Additionally, once the migration is successful, will my Teams chat still look like the same(chats, groups, and Teams group) as it did in GoDaddy Office 365? and do i need to use 3rd party tool for migrating my godaddy account to ms account?
@Nick Ross, it's been more than a week that my service expired on Go Daddy, I ran this process of de-federation, and still see the license from GoDaddy as an additional license that I can't remove , I wonder if this might be because they don't have permission to do anything they can't deactivate the license? because unlike the one I've acquired directly from Microsoft, the one from GoDaddy doesn't have an expiration date
Yea this is common for this to be the case. I am not sure if it ever falls off from the UI perspective but as long as you've removed GoDaddy and have your sub cancelled then you shouldn't have any worries
After the "Enable-OrganizationCustomization" cmdlet completes successfully I try the next line and it gives me: "The command you tried to run isn't currently allowed in your organization. To run this command, you first need to run the command: Enable-OrganizationCustomization." But I just did that? If I try running "Enable-OrganizationCustomization" again it says I have already enabled it.
I thought I posted this last night but maybe it went to the Twilight Zone. Does this type of migration allow me to use my Godaddy domain name as the extension on my emails? i.e. me@mydomain.com where my website is still hosted on Godaddy?
@@t-minus365 Thanks for the reply. This sounds great. I have purchased username@####.onmicrosoft.com Office 365 accounts for all emails to be transferred. Will using the first method be the best option? (I am remaining at Godaddy for webhosting and domain name registrar.)
Hi there, thanks for this awesome video. I ran into the following error: "Import-PSSession : No command proxies have been created, because all of the requested remote commands would shadow existing local commands. Use the AllowClobber parameter if you want to shadow existing local commands." What can I do from this step?
@@t-minus365 Hi There, thank you so much for all your support documents and the blog updates. I wanted to know if the free IMAP cutover tool will work to shift my email from GoDaddy's MS365 to the actual MS365? And what is the actual difference between using bittitan vs the cutover tool for this? BitTitan is actually quite expensive if you have several email addresses :( so that isn't an option for me. Thank you once again for your kind support.
I might be an idiot for asking this question but since we broke things off with go daddy what happens to the domain. Does it get taken away after a year? Do we have to purchase it outright from godaddy?
Is there any issues with this with older accounts? I have seen some people saying that they did this and that godaddy got with microsoft and got them to add back their access.
Amazing video!!!! Appreciate the knowlege.. thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much for these steps! Your video and blog were straight forward with everything that needed to be done. I was able to complete this in about 15 minutes, purchase a couple licenses for basic no teams as well for some increased storage. I went back to go daddy and created a new user since I had 1 out of 5 left on an essentials package and nothing came over. I wanted to test this to ensure the partnership was severed and they couldn't manage the account anymore.
This total worked 9/11/24. I needed to download MS Project, and I couldn't buy it while my MS365 account was federated. This tutorial was very helpful, and I was able to download the program I needed.
Dude, this was excellent! It has always been a nightmare to move products from GoDaddy to another vendor and that is especially true with email. This will save me hours. First time through this took me about 20 minutes. Next time should take less than 5. I'd spend more than an hour on the phone with GoDaddy and most likely the support person would have screwed up the migration meaning just more phone time. Thanks for taking the time to document this well enough for even a first-time user to succeed.😛
glad it was helpful!
Just want to say thanks! Lifesaver!!! Also, for those not familiar with powershell your first time running it you may need to: Set-ExecutionPolicy *
* = Restricted or Unrestricted or Remote (PICK ONE)
Restricted is typical default and will not allow you to execute any scripts until changed to another policy
Unrestricted means you can execute ANY SCRIPT certified or not
Remote allows execution of downloaded scripts with a valid certificate and the execution of manual scripts in powershell
Dude, coming off weeks of back and forth with GoDaddy this is a Godsend. Cant wait to implement this. I am SOOOO tired of GoDaddys nonsense.
Happy to help! When you do, be sure to follow my blog post: tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/ its got the most up to date info
Update: only 1 issue I came across we had to resolve. I was using Proof Point Essentials and Archiving when I was with GoDaddy. After using this tutorial, I just let my GoDaddy subscriptions expire. After the expirations, Proof Point was blocking all my emails because my email addresses were no longer associated with the GoDaddy/PP Essentials account. Turns out there was a leftover GD "connector" in the MS Exchange Admin Center in M365. And because we had removed all the GD rights to the tenant, GoDaddy couldn't do anything to fix it. So after I manually deleted the GD rule and connector and the archiving connector, all my emails came flowing back in and out!
This tutorial saved my company nearly $10,000 in traditional migration costs! Thanks you so much the company i used followed the .pdf and were done in about 20min after some prep work.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad this was helpful as well.
Who did you use? @stick004
@@jedspencer8583 Blade Technologies in St. Louis Mo. USA
@@sschaffer64 thanks! I've got a call into them so I'm hoping they can help us as well. Did you have to procure the new licenses with MS365 or did Blade do that on your behalf?
@@jedspencer8583 , I picked them up through Blade. I now just autopay Blade monthly to keep the MS licenses. In the end, I pay less now “directly” to MS (via Blade) than was paying at GD. And now I have access to 100% of the items my license allows. Plus I have the added bonus of Blade’s support and knowledge should something go weird within MS.
P.S. I was a little confused about how Mr. Schaffer knew who I used… considering I never mentioned it, until I remembered he’s Blade’s CISO. So yeah… he knew it was me 👍
I tried this today after a lot of research. It worked. The only issues I had were the new powershell 7.xx does not work, I had to use my windows 10 built in version 5.xxx. Had to look at the blog for updated information. The only other issue was that it took time. At first after I defederated it kept going into godaddy login when I tried the admin center, even when I did it from a different computer. I was freaking out a little because I thought I lost access. About 30-45 minutes later I tried the login again and it worked, and i was able to do everything needed. Thanks for the info, this was very useful.
Glad this helped. The blog definitely has the most up to date info for sure.
I was thinking this would be a big pain in the ??? but followed your video and links and got it done easier than I thought. Thank You!
Glad it helped!
Thank you very much. You saved me a lot of time and money. I followed the blog post and just coming here to say thank you.
Have a project to do this with 2 tenants. This is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for this video and step by step guide!
I hope I will come here again to comment that you are a life saver. currently stuck in the same scenario.
So I am back here just to say this content is literally life saver.
still works in September 2024! Thank you so much!
Hey Luis! Hope you are doing good, you followed his new updated blog or this video? I'm doing the migration today, wish you the best good sir!
@@saidneder41 I did it between his blog, not the video and chatgpt, I recommend you update powershell and install all graph dependencies, enable execution policies to run commands in your environment if using windows 11.
@saidneder41 are you a tech guy, or a youtube video follower?
I'm somewhere in between, and I'm seriously considering attempting this.
I need to add MS project for use in my business, and I can't do it with the federation. And GoDaddy says it's a Microsoft problem.
@@marcmacialek9250 heyah Marc, I work as an IT help desk, so I do consider myself a tech guy but just recently got into email systems, I Did it yesterday, it worked great, follow the guide from the tminus365 blog tho since that's with the updated msgraph module, that is a better approach to connect to the workspace through PowerShell, the video is still good is just different commands, it does work great, GoDaddy is not good
Excellent tutorial! You saved me a great deal of time. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
5 starts, you helped me to solve a convoluted process with a simple process
I was getting an "Access is denied" error when running the New-PSSession command. I ended up getting into the session with the ExchangeOnlineManagement module and I was able to defederate the domain like normal. It's weird because I didn't have MFA enabled for the admin account which I though might have been the problem. If it works, it works I guess. Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial!
Spot on thanks 😁 working great still and saved me time tonight.
The best solution i have ever seen. Its working.
Wooo!
Excellent video and guide, you are a hero.
Thank you so much for this. I had no idea I could just de-federate the domain. I do not like the admin panel on Go daddy and with a federated tenant you can't sign into windows with your Azure/Entra ID. That's my main reason for doing all this. Thanks again!!
Thank you so much! Great walkthrough!
Glad it helped!
Incredible walkthrough. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Worked perfectly. Thank you very much!
Glad it helped!
That's a brilliant manual. Thanks a lot!
Glad it was helpful!
This video along with the blog worked perfectly!! thank you so much!!
I made the mistake of buying email through goddady as I am single user and was strugling to move away from them but this tutorial helped get me out of it!
I was unable to reset my password, since i am the admin and only user I assume that's okay?
This is such a great tool sir! GoDaddy 365 is a terrible product from an admin standpoint, and overpriced. I always dread rolling a client off their hosting. This was so simple. Screens have changed a bit as you stated, but still doable as long as you have some knowledge of actual MS 365. Thank you so much for the time you spent on this.
Hello! If I've bought licenses of Office 365 on Godaddy will they visible in Microsoft Admin Center? Users can use Office 365 license?
I've done this for a customer. But it was great to know what happens on the back end from the godaddy perspective.
Glad it was helpful!
You the man, Nick ! Finally a way to transfer the domain from Go(odbye)Daddy to our own tenant. Support said it was not possible.
Glad it was helpful Robert! I keep my blog up to date, this video is a bit outdated now tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/
@@t-minus365 but still helpful for me. Txs again !
Thank you!!! I hate how godaddy redirects microsoft365admin page to their useless "advanced" admin page.
You're a lifesaver. Thank you so much
Happy to help!
Great video, thanks for all the help!
absolutely, check out the blog for the latest updates for this: tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/
Bro, you are a hero. Thank you!
Thank you so much buddy, really appreciated. Your content is absolutely great. Will recommend your channel to everyone. Looking forward to give your tutorial a try.
I had 2 quick questions for you:
1) regarding the MX records for both solutions proposed, should I change it in godaddy to point to my azure tenant? Or is that only applicable to solution 2?
2) usually when initially purchasing m365 license through godaddy, does that make them our csp? If yes, what happens after I defederate them? Do I simply remove their rights and It will automatically transfer elsewhere, and if yes where?
Hello! Did you succeed with licenses? now is ok?
Did you ever find answers to either of these questions?
Awesome vid. 1 question: do we have to subscribe with microsoft before doing the defederation or we can do after?
Amazing brilliant video, thank you so much for sharing, this has been a game changer. And thank you Nick for the amazing email support really appreciate it :)
Glad it was helpful!
How do you assign the new MS license to a user already using the GoDaddy license? How can you distinguish which license is which because they're both just called "M365 Business Standard". I want to ensure a user is already set up on the MS license before the GoDaddy license expires. thanks!
Really helpul!Thanks
I've always read you can't break away from Godaddy so when I heard about defederation and found your video and site, I was pleasantly surprised. Thanks for the awesome info! Where do I send tips $$$? Godaddy 365 is trash.
This is great! Wish I would of found this tutorial and set the tenant admin before defederating, which left me in GoDaddy Support purgatory. Question, the CSP I'm working with seems to think that I should be able to just ask GoDaddy to enable the Partner migration option instead of doing these with them or myself. Do you still use this process today, or has it been better to work with GoDaddy since then?
This was a great video. I am trying to follow it up and have issues with the Enable-OrganizationCustomization command. Unfortunately, the error is to big to post it here.
I'm having the same error. Haven't found a solution yet.
Is there a summary of the first line item you see in the error you can add as a comment here?
I have this same error right now. I wish someone will help me out
What if the client domain name is not verified as seen at 9:12 in the video? The domain and website are hosted at Cloudflare, not GoDaddy.
Hello, I already bought licenses from a CSP in a separate tenant before i came across this video. I really like solution 1. can i still use it given that i already bought a tenant with the required license? how can i use solution 1 in this scenario?
This is a great thing you have done, sir. Thank You. Seperate Question: How did you set up the PDF to be viewable without having to sign in to your SharePoint? My links keep forcing sign ins.
Hello, I'm looking to complete this process but see that the scripts you run in powershell are different in the write up from the ones in the video. I'm not a developer so don't want to screw anything up. Can you clarify the powershell scripts to Remove Federation with GoDaddy?
Thanks for the video and blog, real lifesaver!
I didn't add a new provider or provision licensing as my GoDaddy licensing/email still seems to work fine? Should I?
I have a client with close to 50 licenses with GoDaddy. If I go for option 1, do I need a CSP? Or can I purchase those identical licenses direct from MS?
I've been reading a lot of the comments, and I'm really super stoked to rip this bandaid off, for sure. Thanks!!!
you can get the licenses straight from MS
My licences with GoDaddy don’t expire until later in the year. If I do this defederation process myself as per you video, can I do it now and the current GoDaddy licences will still continue to work in the defederated tenant, then I can just buy new licences from a CSP later in the year?
Or will I have to wait and do the defederation process closer to the licence expiry with GoDaddy?
Thanks.
So do you have to get setup with Microsoft as the CSP before you do this, or shortly there after? Is a CSP through Microsoft part of their business licenses? Thanks!
I'm running into an issue... I run Enable-OrganisationCustomization and it works. I check hydration status of tenant and it's reporting all okay. But when run New-ManagementRollAssignment command it says "command you tried to run isn't currently allowed" you first need to run Enable-OrganisationCustomization... which I can't run again now... Any fix?
Might be a weird question, but can we just get in via the powershell, turn it from Federated to Managed and just leave it? More so we have access to everything else within the admin portal and do the other normal tasks. And leave licensing and everything else to GoDaddy? And would you still be able to see their admin console or purchases licenses.
Let me echo a thanks on this tutorial. I have a customer with appx 50 Email Essential accounts with GD and have had this on the to-do list for a bit. A quick question if I may. Of these accounts, the renewal dates range from next month to another year or so out. Once you defederate the domain on GD - will the email account services continue to run on the M365 platform until the GD subscription expires? Or do you have to re-purchase new plans from M365 when the defederation is done? Thanks in advance....MC
In theory they would, but i wouldn't recommend it. The main goal is to remove GD admin rights once you defederate so they dont come back in an re-federate or blow all the users in the account away (stories of them doing this from others who didnt remove their rights). So what i would recommend is performing the defederation right before you are going to have those subscriptions with GD expire OR just spin up the M365 seats now and potentially just eat the cost of the remaining time on the GD subscription.
@@t-minus365 I noticed that you mentioned in another comment that you aren't accepting requests to perform this work yourself. Do you have any recommendations of MSP's that have done this successfully?
I sent the video/tutorial to one that my IT guy recommended that could do it and since he hasn't done this for a client before, he didn't want to risk taking on the project if anything went wrong in the process since he's buried with other work at the moment. Realistically, for someone that has done this process previously, how long should it take that individual to do it again for 15 MS365 accounts?
Also, per your response above, it sounds like we'd just set up the M365 Business Basic accounts first, after defederating, and then reassign the GD Email Essentials and Email Plus accounts to the new ones?
@@t-minus365 This was another question on my mind. Can I migrate certain users and keep certain of them on godaddy whilst their subscription is running? Or must I do all of it together?
@@t-minus365 May I ask what negative consequences might come from continuing to use subscriptions purchased from GD after defederating and removing GD's admin rights? Because my employer has paid for many subscriptions a year in advance and I don't want to wait too long to try your script. Thanks.
Thank you very much good sir !
You are welcome!
Thank you. I have a trip email package coming to an end. Is this also suitable for me ?
Awesome video! Now assuming I prefer using Microsoft directly and not a CSP, once I remove the federated status and am set to "managed" I can already purchase licenses and get support from Microsoft in the admin center correct?
Can you defederate and keep the existing licenses if they were paid in full? i really hate using Godaddys interface.
Did you find out the answer to this? I'm in the same situation, licenses paid in full to GoDaddy but I want to defederate now. Many thanks.
I would like to Defederate without migration and swing it into another tenant. I also need to move the same domain used for that email to another provider (godaddy to network solutions). Do I do your process first and then migrate the domain from GD to the other provider? Then add to the domain to the new tenant and assign alias to the applicable users?
This was a great video! I've been having issues testing on-prem sync with AD sync and, I think GoDaddy is part of the reason. Side question, any recommendations for reseller to get licenses?
Glad it was helpful! Pax8 is who i would talk to.
@@t-minus365 Thank you! Looking forward to new content!
Hi,
My domain is showing incomplete setup, but the services are running seamlessly. I am able sent messages on teams and able to use outlook. Shall i proceed to complete setup for domain or shall keep as it is?
Hi, thank you for this great video!! One question, if we choose the approach to move to a new tenant, do we still need to run those power shell scripts? I still can’t quite get the concept of federation and defederation.
You would still need to do this yes as you will need to update users UPNs/strip the domain from the tenant after you have migrated data.
Hi,
I have done all this, thanks so much. i have removed GoDaddy roles, but it still shows Partner name in admin centre relationship section, although no roles assigned. Is this OK?
After you defederate, can you keep that admin account as the global admin, or do you create a new global admin account separately? Do I have to add a CSP, or can I just manage the tenant as is after godaddy is removed?
Thank you so much. This is awesome. I do have 2 questions. 1: My domains say "incomplete setup". Should I have MS take over or leave it? 2: Can I remove the placeholder godaddy domain?
If you have MS take it over, then the nameservers will move to them as well so you want to be careful there if you have website traffic and things like that. I would suggest just updating the records they show as not complete in GoDaddy. You wont be able to ever remove the placeholder domain from them that the tenant was spun up with. Its tied to all Sharepoint sites and things like that.
@@t-minus365 Ok. Thank you. This "migration" was amazing.
Nick, thanks for the video. Is there any way to use the "free" 365 email accounts with GoDaddy and get regular admin access the same as if you purchaed through MS? I want to take advantage of the email, but I also want to leard the Admin console for educational purposes and NOT tie down my domain.
HI Mate, I have done a migration yesterday, but the domain was already defedrated by Godaddy. I have addedd a new license from another CSP and removed godaddy from the CSP partner list.
You Sir are Amazing! Successfully completed a migration with this video and associated guide. Got a few errors along the way, but rerunning the same piece of powershell code, or rerunning the previous code and quickly executing the next one, seem to get it to work.
Nice! Glad it worked out. The blog is where i keep the most up to date info, i would save this as a reference tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/
Un crack, muchas gracias!
Glad you liked it!
Hello! If I know password of user, should I reset it or not? Also I've noticed that only Admin center redirects to Godaddy. Azure, Sharepoint, Teams admin centers are ok. Is this video applicable for me?
I'm trying to execute this defederation and I can't even find the part of Azure that I need to access that window. Please help? I signed up for the free account, do I need to pay for Azure to have that access?
Really appreciate your video. Comparing your documentation to Pax8 version it seems that Pax8 have removed the first set of powershell commands before the change from federated to managed. Their PDF guide was updated OCT2021. Are the first set of Powershell commands necessary?
The most up to date info can be found on the blog: tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/
This is a great video and documentation. Thanks you so much for posting this. A question around the reset user passwords (E) in solution 1, we have mailboxes only no office (purchased through GoDaddy) which are setup with the vanity domain. We obviously want to retain these mailboxes within the MS direct tenant, will these vanity emails be fine as UPN's or do we need to update these with the onmicrosoft domain? As we only have mailboxes, I'm presuming that we could carry out points A to E and not lose any data and after this purchase our licensing of business premium directly from Microsoft and allocate the users their business premium licenses. Many thanks
Hey Sharon, you are correct in that you can leave the existing UPNs. This would work just fine and you would not be at risk of data loss.
@@t-minus365 Awesome, thanks for the reply. Hoping to do this at the weekend at significantly less headache than initially expected!
Does this migrate everything like their OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams? I assume so but just want to make sure. Also if they use GoDaddy to host their website, could they just cancel their Microsoft licenses after we buy them and keep their website hosted through GoDaddy still?
@T-Minus365 - Thank you so much for the video! I still have an ongoing issue though where it always says "Your Browser is a Bit Unusual" when I try to login into GoDaddy 365. I literally can't do it in any browser or any device. Any ideas so I can take my email back?
anyone able to get refunds from GoDaddy for unused months you have subscribed to before the migration? Looking to do this and I am seeing within 30 days. Is this process still the same since this video released a couple years ago?
At 11:47 in the video that script is not in the documentions at all.
Hey Thomas, the blog has the most up to date info. You will want to use that as a source of truth
@@t-minus365 I've been working through this on my Mac using the script in your blog, I'm getting roadblocks though that I'm having a hard time navigating.
[Set-MsolDomainAuthentication: The term 'Set-MsolDomainAuthentication' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.]
great video
Thanks!
Great video! Can this be done from the MacOS Terminal?
thanks! and yes: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-macos?view=powershell-7.2
@@t-minus365 Thanks for the response! One more question, if I were to defederate the domain and keep the existing tenant, would I then be able to purchase licenses for some of the Microsoft add-ons (like Power BI, Dynamics 365, etc.) that GoDaddy doesn't allow access to?
@@automattic6829 yes 100%
@@t-minus365 Amazing. Thanks so much!
@@t-minus365 Can't seem to get past "Connect-Msolservice." Getting the error, "The term 'Connect-Msolservice' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program..." Could it be that I'm 1) on a Mac; and/or 2) running PowerShell 7.2.6?
Well executed. FYI your website post for this subject has a broken plugin. And, when taking over the admin account, you say MFA must not be configured for obvious reasons. Is that to say that GoDaddy GA role is not MFA enabled? That doesn't seem like a good policy imo. I assume, if it is enabled a call to Godaddy would be in order.
Thank you for the heads up. Got that fixed. I only mentioned the lack of MFA due to the exchange online powershell cmdelts being run not supporting mfa. You can and should enable mfa on all GA accounts after. I could probably update to use EOPv2 which does support 2fa.
Could you keep GoDaddy as your CSP? We have a three year contract prior IT signed with GoDaddy and want to loop ourselves out of it but no pay for re-licensing.
Hi, a quick question, I use my email hosted with goDaddy (Microsoft 365) and I am part of Microsoft parter program, and I have a new tenant with Microsoft 365 that I want to migrate my GoDaddy to. This process will affect my access to my Microsoft portal in any way? Thank you all in advance.
Hello, do you have recommendations of someone who I can hire to do this for me? Just a small business and don't have this technical knowledge
Excelente! muchas gracias! Saludos desde Argentina, cuando andes por acá escribime y te invito un asado ;)
Can the CSP be Microsoft directly? I usually like to just get licenses direct from Microsoft?
Great video. I ran into an issue though. I enabled customization for the tenant. I also verified that the tenant is hydrated, but when I run the New-ManagementRoleAssignment line, it gives me an error saying I need to first run Enable-OrganizationCustomization. If I try to run that again, I just an error saying my organization is already enabled for customization. Any idea?
Never mind, didn't need that command to finish migrating over.
My company works with nonprofits that are often sucked into 365 promo's that Go Daddy runs as part of packages for domain/website hosting service. If I'm understanding this correctly, they won't need to export ost/pst files unless they want to back them but there will be an issue with their sharepoint url/data?
What do you mean an issue with sharepoint urls/data? Currently in your mentioned situation. Don’t want to migrate just yet but need to just worried about covering all the angles
If I migrate from GoDaddy Office 365 to Microsoft Office 365, will the Teams chats messenges also be migrated? Additionally, once the migration is successful, will my Teams chat still look like the same(chats, groups, and Teams group) as it did in GoDaddy Office 365? and do i need to use 3rd party tool for migrating my godaddy account to ms account?
Have you got the answer yet Buddy!
@Nick Ross, it's been more than a week that my service expired on Go Daddy, I ran this process of de-federation, and still see the license from GoDaddy as an additional license that I can't remove , I wonder if this might be because they don't have permission to do anything they can't deactivate the license? because unlike the one I've acquired directly from Microsoft, the one from GoDaddy doesn't have an expiration date
Yea this is common for this to be the case. I am not sure if it ever falls off from the UI perspective but as long as you've removed GoDaddy and have your sub cancelled then you shouldn't have any worries
After the "Enable-OrganizationCustomization" cmdlet completes successfully I try the next line and it gives me: "The command you tried to run isn't currently allowed in your organization. To run this command, you first need to run
the command: Enable-OrganizationCustomization."
But I just did that? If I try running "Enable-OrganizationCustomization" again it says I have already enabled it.
What i would do here is just close powershell and reconnect.
Do this affect any data in Onedrive or SharePoint sites?
It does not
Would you say that the blog is more up to date or the share point file? I’m going to try this in a few days
I keep the blog most up to date
Any pointers on migrating shared mailboxes?
I may have missed it, but for the Defederate without Migration at what point do I need to reset the user passwords that you mentioned?
I have never had to
No longer uses Azure Active Directory. Looking for a solution now :(
There was just a Rebranding to Entra ID but it is basically the same product
I thought I posted this last night but maybe it went to the Twilight Zone.
Does this type of migration allow me to use my Godaddy domain name as the extension on my emails? i.e. me@mydomain.com where my website is still hosted on Godaddy?
That is correct. This move would not effect anything with your website.
@@t-minus365 Thanks for the reply. This sounds great. I have purchased username@####.onmicrosoft.com Office 365 accounts for all emails to be transferred. Will using the first method be the best option? (I am remaining at Godaddy for webhosting and domain name registrar.)
Hi there, thanks for this awesome video. I ran into the following error: "Import-PSSession : No command proxies have been created, because all of the requested remote commands would shadow
existing local commands. Use the AllowClobber parameter if you want to shadow existing local commands."
What can I do from this step?
Hey so commands are no longer needed. I have updated instructions on my blog post: tminus365.com/defederating-godaddy-365/
@@t-minus365 Hey thanks a ton man :D. I will try it out and let you know :D
@@t-minus365 Hi There, thank you so much for all your support documents and the blog updates. I wanted to know if the free IMAP cutover tool will work to shift my email from GoDaddy's MS365 to the actual MS365? And what is the actual difference between using bittitan vs the cutover tool for this? BitTitan is actually quite expensive if you have several email addresses :( so that isn't an option for me. Thank you once again for your kind support.
Have you ever had an instance where you couldn't find the admin account? Not sure how to proceed with this.
I'm in the same boat. I have an admin account I created but no admin@netorg.onmicrosft account. My Godaddy account is pretty old.
@@paulgriffin883 I got it to work by creating an admin account and giving it Global Admin and walking through the same process as above.
Is it necessary to add a new CSP/partner before revoking GoDaddy's partner rights if you're migrating to a new tenant altogether?
It is not.
I might be an idiot for asking this question but since we broke things off with go daddy what happens to the domain. Does it get taken away after a year? Do we have to purchase it outright from godaddy?
If they're still hosting your domain, it should remain with them.
Thanks for the video. What would it cost to have you do this for me?
Sir, Its not allowing me to add new partner relation after defederate.
Is there any issues with this with older accounts? I have seen some people saying that they did this and that godaddy got with microsoft and got them to add back their access.
As long as you remove godaddy as delegated admin like i mentioned in here then this would not be possible for them to regain access