Create DNS Records at Yahoo! for Live@edu

The Live@edu Service Management Portal provides the information you need to create each type of DNS record. The values for several types of records include a unique 30-character token for each domain. When you create the DNS records, to avoid typos, copy and paste the information from the Service Management Portal to the data entry form for your DNS hosting service.

Typically, DNS records that you create for new domains are detected quickly. Updates to DNS records for existing domains may take longer to be detected. However, it should take no longer than 72 hours before a change is detected.

1. Go to the Yahoo! Web site at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com.
   
2. Hover over Already a customer? Sign in, and click Small Business. On the resulting page, log on with your Yahoo! ID and password.
   
3. On the resulting page under Go To for your domain, click Domain Control Panel.
   
4. On the Welcome to Your Domain Control Panel page, click Manage Advanced DNS Settings. The Advanced DNS Settings page opens. You are now ready to create the DNS records that are used with the cloud-based service.
   

You need the unique token for your domain. The token is displayed in the Service Management Portal when you are asked to prove domain ownership. In the examples below, replace <token> with the exact value from the Service Management Portal, such as 418dfb2662004683978f9ce4742099.

1. On the Yahoo! Advanced DNS Settings page, in the MX Records section, click Change MX Records.
   
2. On the Change Your MX Records page, enter the following information:
   
   • Mailserver Hostname   <token>.msv1.invalid
     
   • Priority   Select 90.
     Important   To prevent a conflict with the MX record that routes e-mail to your domain, pay close attention to the Priority value. A lower value indicates a higher priority. For example, a record with a Priority of 10 is processed before a record with Priority of 90. The MX record for mail routing should use a low number like 10, and the MX record for proving domain ownership should use a high number like 90.
     
3. When you are finished, click Submit.
   

After you create the MX record at Yahoo! to prove domain ownership, return to the Service Management Portal to check the status of your service.

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1. On the Yahoo! Advanced DNS Settings page, in the MX Records section, click Change MX records.
   
2. On the Change Your MX Records page, enter the following information:
   
   • Mailserver Hostname   <token>.mail.outlook.com
     Enter the value of MX server, displayed under Update an MX record in the Recommended DNS updates section of the Domains page in the Service Management Portal.
     
   • Priority   Select 10.
     
   Important   If you have obsolete MX records for this domain that routed e-mail to another location, delete them from the Change Your MX Records page by deleting the text in the Mailserver Hostname field.
   
3. When you are finished, click Submit.
   

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1. On the Yahoo! Advanced DNS Settings page, in the A and CNAME Records section, click Add Record.
   
2. On the Add an A or CNAME Record page, enter the following information:
   
   • Source   autodiscover
     
   • Destination   autodiscover.outlook.com
     
3. When you are finished, click Submit.
   

After you've created the autodiscover CNAME record and created user accounts, you can point your users to Connect Outlook to This Account to help them create a new Outlook profile and connect.

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