GoDaddy Defederation of Microsoft 365

When you are using GoDaddy for your Microsoft 365 services everything works great with email. You get easy access to M365 based Exchange Online. You get a simple GoDaddy style console for administration and you let GoDaddy handle all of your passwords, authentication and overall management. Simple right?

Well yes, it is, for a small startup company that just wants email. But what about when you want to use more services like OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, PowerApps, Azure and any of the other goodies inside Microsoft 365. You can get a basic cutdown version but never the full experience. But wait, you are locked in to the GoDaddy system. Can you even get out? Can you migrate the data into a true, fully fledged Microsoft 365 tenant. Well yes you can, and I know that I have some videos in The Cloud Geezer channel that talks about things like that.

Question that many ask. Is the M365 implementation that GoDaddy use any different from the true Microsoft 365?

The answer to that is "No it isn't". Surprisingly enough, all GoDaddy are doing is offering a system whereby they give you a console to easily manage the system. They also are a federation service which means that when you authenticate with their implementation, you are authenticating against the GoDaddy services (where your password and username is held) and not the underlying M365 backend. So can you get out of that tenant and use a Microsoft 365 system without having to set up a new tenant and migrate all the data over? Yes you can.

What we are offering here though is a simple way to get us to help with achieving the following tasks.

Use the underlying Microsoft 365 authentication platform instead of GoDaddy.

Remove the GoDaddy management of your Microsoft 365 implementation.

Allow you to purchase the licenses direct from Microsoft for ongoing subscriptions.

Convert the 'onmicrosoft.com' name into a name of your choosing away from the 'netorgftxxxxx' naming convention.

Basically, at Riverside Cloud, we will look after all of this for you for own fee. Handing you the admin credentials and letting you then continue your cloud life inside a true Microsoft 365 implementation.

If you have questions about your particular circumstances then please email us at info@riversidecloud.com and we can answer anything you ask about this process.

After purchasing the product, we will reach out immediately to schedule the necessary discussion and organize the cutover timing.