If your email address is already associated with Microsoft service, you may choose the link “ Create a new account instead” on the page to continue. Provide your email address in the box and click Next, as shown in the below image.
On clicking the “ Try free for one month” link, a new page will open, asking your current official email address.
The below screenshot shows this page, and we are choosing the 30 day trial for the Microsoft 365 Business standard subscription ( Shown in the redbox ) Users can cancel the subscription at any time to stop future charges.įirst visit the Microsoft 365 product comparison page, where you can find the comparison chart for each subscription and you can choose the subscription depending on your need. You may need to put the Credit card details when required. After your 1-month free trial, you will be charged the applicable subscription fee. Here we are setting up a 30-day free trial account for Microsoft 365 Business standard subscription. Before proceeding with the trial account, the administrator should own a domain and be required to set up records for the domain to use the mail functionality on the domain. Here we are choosing the second method, and setting up the Microsoft 365 Business standard subscription for a custom domain. When the administrator follows this process (add a domain and create new business email accounts), all users will get access to all the features provided in Microsoft 365 Business Standard. For example, their username, followed by and other users sign into Microsoft 365 with this new email address. All the Organisation users will have a shared domain email address. You’ll use Outlook with your existing email account (be it, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, or other).Ĭreate a new business email account and attach a domain – With this option, an Organization’s administrator will be able to use Microsoft 365 Exchange as the Organization’s professional, branded email provider. Sign in with Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, or other email accounts – This type of sign up is best for very small businesses who don’t need branded email immediately, or who already use branded email from a different provider and do not intend to switch to use Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft offers two choices of Sign up for a Microsoft 365 Business Standard subscription. In this blog, we are providing the steps involved in setting up a Microsoft 365 Standard edition trial account with a custom domain for Exchange mail solution. The Microsoft 365 Business Basic edition has only web and mobile versions of Office apps, whereas Standard and Premium editions have desktop versions of Office apps too with premium features. The rest of the three editions ( Basic, Standard, and Premium ) includes Microsoft 365 applications and Exchange mail solution.
The Microsoft 365 Apps for business is bundled with desktop versions of Office apps with premium features and without Exchange mail solution. Microsoft 365 Business offers 4 flavors or editions as follows:
Microsoft 365 Apps for business includes desktop versions of Office apps: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote (Plus Access and Publisher for PC only), 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage per user, 1 license for all Office apps on five mobile devices, five tablets, and five PCs or Macs per user, automatic updates. Microsoft 365 Business is a line of subscription services that brings together best-in-class productivity apps with powerful cloud services, device management, and advanced security in one, connected experience.