Redeem the offer now and choose to stay with Microsoft 365 Family.
You can use the free offer in any of these ways: If you try to add too many subscriptions at once to the same account, you’ll get a Redemption Failed error because you can’t exceed the 5-year maximum. For example, if you have 6 months left on your current Microsoft 365 Family subscription and you add a new yearly Microsoft 365 Family subscription to your account, we’ll extend it to 18 months. When you add a Microsoft 365 subscription to an account that already has a Microsoft 365 subscription, any remaining time from your current subscription is added to the new one. For example, if you have only one user on the subscription, you’ll have 1 terabyte of storage, but if you have Microsoft 365 Family and share with five other people, you get a total of 6 terabytes of storage. Whether you stay with the same subscription or switch to a different subscription, your online storage capacity per user doesn’t change. No change to amount of minutes but decreases the number of users No change to amount of minutes but increases the number of users No change to storage size but decreases the number of users No change to storage size but increases the number of users
You can install Microsoft 365 on all your devices and be signed in to five devices at a time. Microsoft 365 Personal can be used by you. Microsoft 365 Family can be used by up to six people.Įach person on the subscription can install Microsoft 365 on all their devices and be signed in to five devices at a time. Installing and signing in to Microsoft 365 Switch from Microsoft 365 Family to Microsoft 365 Personal Switch from Microsoft 365 Personal to Microsoft 365 Family
To see full subscription details, like how many Microsoft 365 devices you can sign in to or the number of Skype minutes, see Microsoft 365 subscriptions. If you already have a Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, the table below summarizes your options when you switch from one subscription to the other. You can extend the duration of a Microsoft 365 subscription for up to 5 years.įor example, if you use a Microsoft 365 Personal product key to renew, and you currently have aMicrosoft 365 Family subscription, you'll be offered a choice to stay with Microsoft 365 Family subscription and receive less than a year of subscription benefits, since Microsoft 365 Family costs more, or you can switch to Microsoft 365 Personal. You're extending the amount of time for that subscription, not increasing the number of Microsoft 365 devices you can sign in to or amount of online storage you get. If you add the same Microsoft 365 subscription to your Microsoft account, you’ll have the same subscription benefits (same number of Microsoft 365 devices you can sign in to and the same amount of Skype minutes and OneDrive storage) as before.
However, your Microsoft account - the email address and password you use to install Office - can have only one active Microsoft 365 subscription. Lessįor home or personal use, you can choose from two Microsoft 365 subscriptions: Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal.
You can do a manual sync via Azure AD Connect / DirSync, but even then it can take some time to appear on the O365 side of things.Microsoft 365 for home More. The cloud side will synchronize and show the new alias, but it isn’t always fast.
When done click OK until you are out of ADUC and then sit back and be patient. For the alias account you want to add, use the format: You can add as many aliases as needed, just be sure that they all use lower case for smtp.Īfter entering the information, it should look something like this: If it’s blank your first step is to add the existing email account in the format Make sure to capitalize SMTP as that’s how the default account is determined. It may be blank, which is fine, or it may already have some information in it. Scroll down to the Proxy Address field and double click to open it for editing.
Double click on the User then click on the Attribute Editor tab. Make sure that Advanced Features is checked, under View on the top menu. To do this, open ADUC and find the User you want to modify. You can easily add an alias via Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). This error has made many people think they need to keep an Exchange Server up and running on their local network. If you try to add an alias (second email address) to an account, you will get an error similar to this: