When you redirect a domain name to Office Live Small Business, but leave your e-mail addresses with your current registrar, this is known as partial redirection.

The first time that you partially redirect an existing domain name from another registrar, that domain name automatically becomes the primary domain for your site. Visitors who type the URL for your redirected domain will reach your Office Live Small Business Web site.

After you partially redirect your site, you must perform the following steps each time that you want to make changes to your Office Live Small Business Web site:

1. Change your primary domain to your free Office Live Small Business domain that ends with .officelive.com.
2. After you make changes to your Web site, change your primary domain back to your partially redirected domain name.

 Note   These steps are only required for a partially redirected domain name. If you redirected both your Web site and e-mail addresses to Office Live Small Business, you do not need to change the primary domain before making changes to your Web site.

This topic provides instructions for changing the primary domain for a partially redirected Web site. For information about Web site redirection, see Redirect your domain name to Office Live Small Business. For information about making changes to your Web site, see Get started creating your Web site.

• Change your primary domain to your free domain name

• Change your primary domain back to your partially redirected domain name

Change your primary domain to your free domain name

After you partially redirect a Web site to your Office Live Small Business account, that redirected domain name automatically becomes the primary domain for your site. Before you can make changes to your Office Live Small Business Web site, you must change the primary domain to your free domain name that ends with .officelive.com.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click More, and then click Domain Manager. The Domain Manager page appears.
2. In the Domain list, find the domain name that ends with .officelive.com. In the Options column, click Make Primary, and then click OK.

You can now make changes to your Office Live Small Business Web site.

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Change your primary domain back to your partially redirected domain name

After you have made revisions to your Web site, you must then change the primary domain back to your redirected domain name in order for your changes to publish to the live site and appear for your customers.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click More, and then click Domain Manager. The Domain Manager page appears.
2. In the Domain list, find the domain name that you partially redirected. In the Options column, click Make Primary, and then click OK.

After you change your primary domain back to your partially redirected domain name, your customers can view the changes that you made to your Web site.

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