My latest piece on BoxFreeIT aims to clear some of the confusion around the domain name hosting that is included as part of Office 365 for Small Business and Professionals.
DNS is something that is usually not within the realm of most SMB owners or employees. And why should it be? While DNS is part of our every day lives (think of it as the White Pages of the Internet – mapping understandable names to numbers) it’s not something that is actually used often in relation to a businesses domain name. Usually it’s set up by an IT company or web host and then left until another IT company or web host moves it elsewhere.
So it’s fair that most SMB owners wouldn’t have the faintest idea of what a zone file even means.
I have encountered MANY “IT professionals” in my career that also have no idea how DNS works – and that’s a scary thought.
It’s for this reason that Office 365 includes domain name hosting – so as to keep it simple for SMB owners.
Unfortunately those same “IT professionals” don’t quite understand that the domain name hosting included in Office 365 is completely optional and is in fact not required for the seamless operation of Office 365.
You can read the piece here: http://www.boxfreeit.com.au/Productivity/debunking-office-365-domain-hosting.html
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