Configuring a custom domain

Under the Azure Active Directory | Custom domain section, click Add custom domain and complete the verification process to prove that you are the owner of the domain:

Actual configured domains

Add the TXT entry shown to your DNS zone to verify the domain:

Domain verification options

Click the Verify button on your Azure portal, and after successful verification, the new DOMAIN NAME will appear under DOMAINS. Choose the Make primary option:

Custom domain overview and configuration options (Make primary or Download the Azure AD Connect tool)

Open https://portal.office.com to complete the domain setup process under the admin section:

Office 365 setup wizard

Choose the custom domain to be used for email addresses:

Sign-in and mail options

The last step we need to take is to set the new UserPrincipalNames to the existing users. We do this with a small example scripting solution:

1. Connect to your Azure AD with your global administrator credentials:

Connect-AzureAD

2. Export the existing users to a CSV file with the following cmdlet:

Get-AzureADUser -All $True | Where { $_.UserPrincipalName.ToLower().EndsWith("onmicrosoft.com")} | Export-Csv C:\Office365Users.csv

3. Remove all accounts you don't want to modify and make the change with the following cmdlets:

$domain = "inovitlabs.ch"
Import-Csv 'C:\Office365Users.csv' | ForEach-Object {
$newupn = $_.UserPrincipalName.Split("@")[0] + "@" + $domain
 Write-Host "Changing UPN value from: "$_.UserPrincipalName" to: " $newupn -ForegroundColor Green
 Set-AzureADUser -ObjectId $_.UserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName $newupn
}

4. You should get a result similar to this:

Active users overview

The primary email will also be changed to the custom domain.

Next, we will configure the Azure AD Domain services to provide a transition scenario for a Kerberos-based application that is normally provided in on-premises infrastructure.