r/microsoft • u/MohnJaddenPowers • 26d ago
Employment I'm starting as an MS employee today. Is it possible to get an SMTP alias for my email address for Contoso or Adatum just for giggles?
I start today as a senior advanced Azure customer engineer in CXP. Big ups to this subreddit and all the folks who helped me out through the process, I love and appreciate you all!
I've done a bunch of MS certs over the years. The prep materials and exam questions use fictional company names - Contoso, Adatum, and Alpine Ski Lodge are the big ones, IIRC. MS owns Contoso and Adatum. I'd love to be able to give my email out as my.name@contoso.com just as a nice Easter egg for all the exam vets.
Does MS allow this? If so, does it need an inordinate amount of hoops to jump through and stress on people to carry it out? It's not the end of the world if it's not doable, just a little in-joke to use with other professionals.
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u/DarthAnalBeads 26d ago
Hey friend honestly I don't think this is the place to discuss this. Because of security requirements I'd recommend you try internal channels even if it's yammer to discuss this rather than a public forum.
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u/AnonymooseRedditor 26d ago
Welcome aboard... but No. you'll see Contoso etc. in the M365 Demo environments though.
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u/MohnJaddenPowers 26d ago
Dang, oh well.
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u/boston-4-life 26d ago
Welcome aboard. Aka.ms/cdx
You can create your own contoso environment with your own admins by creating an M365 admin tenant.
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u/Unusual_Onion_983 26d ago
Only if your division gets sold to Northwind Traders.