How to Remove a Domain From Microsoft 365

Remove a domain from Microsoft 365 admin center

Are you removing your domain because you want to add it to a different Microsoft 365 subscription plan? Or do you just want to cancel your subscription?

1. First, login into Microsoft 365 admin center using a global admin account. Navigate to Settings > Domains option.

Note Note: If you don’t see the Settings option in the new Microsoft admin center. Let click on the link Show all to open all settings.

2. Select the domain you want to remove from Microsoft 365 then click Remove domain.

3. If the domain you want to remove is default domain, you must set a new default to another one.

4. Click button to remove the domain. The users, groups and apps currently depend on the domain you want to remove will be moved to the default domain that you’ve set in previous step.

5. The domain removal in progress, it could take several minutes depending on numbers of users, groups depend on the domain.

6. The domain was removed from Microsoft 365, now you can add the domain into other Microsoft tenant.

Remove a domain from Microsoft 365 using PowerShell

1. Connect to Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

Connect-MsolService

2. Run Get-MsolDomain to get the list of domain in Microsoft 365 tenant.

PS C:\Users\mpnadmin> Get-MsolDomain

Name                      Status     Authentication
----                      ------     --------------
bonguides.onmicrosoft.com Verified   Managed
bonguides.com             Verified   Managed
bonguides.me              Unverified Managed

3. Run Remove-MsolDomain -Domain “domain.com” to remove a domain from Microsoft 365.

PS C:\Users\mpnadmin> Remove-MsolDomain -DomainName "bonguides.com"

Confirm
Continue with this operation?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): Y

4. Run Get-MsolDomain to verify the domain was removed from Microsoft 365.

PS C:\Users\mpnadmin> Get-MsolDomain

Name                      Status     Authentication
----                      ------     --------------
bonguides.onmicrosoft.com Verified   Managed
bonguides.me              Unverified Managed