{"id":1634,"date":"2014-07-25T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebeagle.itgroove.net\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:54","slug":"o365dns-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2014\/07\/25\/o365dns-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"O365\u2013DNS follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made a presentation to the Victoria Office365 Users Group on July 24th which basically mirrored an earlier post I made here<\/a>.\u00a0 I won\u2019t rehash the whole presentation as the PowerPoint slide deck is available here<\/a>.\u00a0 However, I do want to elaborate on a question one of the participants asked during our Q&A.<\/p>\n

Back in the day (and the \u201cDay\u201d was probably 18 ~ 24 months ago), Microsoft made it hard to move on to O365 without actually moving your external DNS to Microsoft themselves.\u00a0 There was a way for users to plug in their own third-party DNS provider but the process was not easy.\u00a0 I suspect a lot of \u201cdo it yourseflers\u201d just let Microsoft handle the DNS and moved on from there.\u00a0 I also suspect that a number of users may have tried to change things down the road and may have run into some issues.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this chap was confused as to how to find out who his actual external DNS provider is.\u00a0 There are lots of ways to find out but my favourite tool is mxtoolbox<\/a> as it is a simple and elegant tool to find out all sorts of info about yours (or anyone\u2019s) DNS status.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what you see when you first go there:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll look up the MX (mail server) for itgroove.ca:<\/p>\n

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As can be seen, our email is on O365 (outlook.com, baby!)\u00a0 Clicking on the \u201cwhois lookup\u201d will display interesting DNS info:<\/p>\n

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One of the things that often confuses people is that you can have your domain (eg itgroove.ca) registered in one place (in our case, DomainsAtCost Corp) while you have your DNS hosted somewhere else.\u00a0 You do not have to use the DNS tools at your domain registrar if you don\u2019t want to.\u00a0 In our case, the external DNS for itgroove.ca is handled by DynDNS and you can see that the nameservers are from DynDNS.\u00a0 Generally, your domain registrar will allow you to point to some other DNS provider (nameserver).\u00a0 Lots of times this is critical if, for example, you have a hosted website and the website hoster wants to bind you to their DNS system.\u00a0 You almost have no choice but to point at their nameservers for your DNS event though they (the website hosting company) has nothing to do with your domain registration.<\/p>\n

The point, here, is that you have tools you can use to verify the live status of your DNS should you need to do so.\u00a0 You can also change the DNS provider you use by changing the nameserver pointer at your domain registrar to the nameservers provided by your DNS provider of choice.\u00a0 Microsoft lists a number of DNS providers that work well with O365.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0 is the link<\/a> for the current recommendations in O365 on how to handle your DNS records and there is a link on that page that takes you to a list of preferred suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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