Transition to a Full Microsoft 365 Experience with GoDaddy Defederation

What is GoDaddy Defederation?

For many small businesses, purchasing a Microsoft 365 subscription from GoDaddy is a common add-on when purchasing their primary domain name.

This low-cost add-on is convenient, but many businesses don’t realize that GoDaddy’s version of Microsoft 365 has limited features and restricts the ability from accessing the full benefit of the platform. 

GoDaddy has offered this low-cost version of Microsoft 365 for many years but has recently encouraged businesses to transition to the full Microsoft 365 experience.

Transitioning to a full Microsoft tenant allows businesses to take advantage of enhanced security and access to additional features, including key applications such as Microsoft Teams, Teams Voice, Viva, and more.

Because GoDaddy groups, or "federates", their accounts for ease of administration, companies must "defederate" their GoDaddy-based Microsoft 365 account to access the full experience.

Key reasons to make the transition:

• Full Access to Tools and Support: Take full control of your Microsoft 365 tenant and gain access to key applications for a complete experience.
• Management Flexibility: Gain the flexibility to manage services directly through Microsoft or your managed IT services provider.
• Data Preservation with Minimal Downtime: Proper defederation ensures users and data are preserved during the transition process. Defederation can also be achieved with little or no downtime. 
• Cost Benefit: Long-term security and feature benefits directly outweigh short-term cost savings of subscribing through GoDaddy.

Leverage Our Simplified Process

We’ve simplified the defederation process making it easy to transition your GoDaddy instance of Microsoft 365 to a full Microsoft 365 tenant with all features and functions available to enable your continued growth.

Key Benefits of Our Process:

• Defederate the tenant without migrating mailboxes or files, and avoid downtime for users
• Avoid the need to contact GoDaddy Support
• Keep user accounts intact vs. migration or deletion
• Add advanced email security to protect against spam, phishing, and malware
• Add full backup of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams

Assessment

Our team will review your existing license usage and any unique aspects of your Microsoft 365 environment at GoDaddy and make recommendations to streamline license usage and improve functionality.

Preparation

We'll coordinate to schedule your transition, prep your Microsoft 365 tenant, and provision any additional licenses you'll need. We'll also work with you on end user communications to ensure a smooth transition for your team.

Execution

We'll initiate your transition, remove GoDaddy's association, address any remaining GoDaddy subscription, and be available for any post-transition issues if needed.

Post-Transition

If you choose any optional add-ons, such as email security or email backup, we'll enable them for use and provide access to those features. 

Make the transition to a full Microsoft 365 experience!

With Sourcepass as your partner, you can feel confident that the transition from GoDaddy will be made efficiently, accurately, and with your company’s data intact.

Contact Sourcepass today to get started with your GoDaddy Microsoft 365 transition and learn more on how we can enable growth within your business.