{"id":359,"date":"2015-07-14T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=359"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:47:25","slug":"how-to-forward-office-365-email-address-to-external-address-without-a-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-forward-office-365-email-address-to-external-address-without-a-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Forward Office 365 Email Address to External Address without a Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To set up email forwarding in Office 365 to an external email address without creating a mailbox please follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1. Log in to Office 365<\/h2>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.microsoftonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/portal.microsoftonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2. Go to Exchange Admin<\/h2>\n<p>On the left sidebar under Admin click on <strong>Exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Exchange.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-360 size-full\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Exchange.png\" alt=\"Exchange\" width=\"207\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3. Create a New Mail User<\/h2>\n<p>Click on <strong>Recipients<\/strong> in the left sidebar<\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on the arrow next to the + and Choose Mail User<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Create-New-Mail-User-Office365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-362\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Create-New-Mail-User-Office365.jpg\" alt=\"Create-New-Mail-User-Office365\" width=\"587\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Create-New-Mail-User-Office365.jpg 587w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Create-New-Mail-User-Office365-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Step 4. Fill in the New User Details<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/New-External-User-Office365.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/New-External-User-Office365.png\" alt=\"New-External-User-Office365\" width=\"514\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/New-External-User-Office365.png 514w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/New-External-User-Office365-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fill in all the relevant details:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First Name<\/li>\n<li>Last Name<\/li>\n<li>Alias &#8211; make this the same as the User ID<\/li>\n<li>External Email Address &#8211; the email address you want to forward the email to<\/li>\n<li>User ID &#8211; The Internal email address you want to forward from<\/li>\n<li>Password &#8211; Not important as it won&#8217;t be used anyway but still make sure it&#8217;s secure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Step 5. Wait &#8211; IMPORTANT!<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As with any task on Office 365 you can try out your new forwarding address straight away but it may not work immediately. \u00a0Sometimes Office 365 can take some time (an hour or two) to recognise changes in the system for some tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Although the process of forwarding an internal Office 365 address to an external email address without a mailbox is simple enough to complete when you know how to, finding the correct section in the ECP can be misleading as there isn&#8217;t a simple &#8220;Forwarding&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To set up email forwarding in Office 365 to an external email address without creating a mailbox please follow these instructions: Step 1. Log in to Office 365 Go to http:\/\/portal.microsoftonline.com Step 2. Go to Exchange Admin On the left sidebar under Admin click on Exchange Step 3. Create a New Mail User Click on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[7],"article-tag":[339,340,341],"class_list":["post-359","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-office-365","article-tag-office-365-forward-email","article-tag-office-365-forward-email-to-another-address","article-tag-office-365-forward-email-to-external-address-without-mailbox"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":31,"sum_votes":138},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}