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Fozzie Bear

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Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section of the forum. :(

Hopefully this is a straight forward question but its not obvious from Microsoft information.

When signing up for Office 365 you create an ID which is something similar to bob@rsvp.onmicrosoft.com. Normally you use your own name (Bob)and your existing domain (RSVP).

In an organisation with a high changeover of staff often the person who creates the ID moves on. Is it permissible to use a generic name e.g. admin which is not personal and won't change? The ID would therefore be something like admin@rsvp.onmicrosoft.com. As this email does not actually exist presumably as part of the sign up process we would need to enter a real email address for billing and subscription notification purposes, or does the initial sign in HAVE to be a real and active account?

Also I appreciate this creates an initial Office 365 email address but does this count as the first "User" i.e. if you pay for 2 subscriptions is this original email counted as one of the subscriptions. Later on when email is migrated to Office 365 the two accounts required would be accounts@rsvp.0nmicrosoft.com (reducing to accounts@rsvp.co.uk) and info@rsvp.onmicrosoft.com (info@rsvp.co.uk). The admin@rsvp.co.uk would be fictitious and only use for sign in.

I hope I have explained myself clearly. In essence I am trying to provide detailed instructions to someone to create the accounts and subscriptions and its difficult without actually sitting beside them when they sign up.

Fozzie
 
No, the account does not have to be a real person - it's recommended to create an admin account (doesn't need to be a licensed mailbox, just needs the right permissions) to administer the tenant.
 
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