"Sorry, your DNS records are not updated yet" error in Office 365 Small Business

On the Complete the process page in Microsoft Office 365 Small Business or Microsoft Office 365 for small businesses (pre-upgrade), when you click Done, go check, you get the following error message:

Make sure that the name server (NS) records are updated to point to the following:

• ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com
• ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com

To do this, click Back, and then follow the instructions on the screen to update the NS records. After you update the records, you may have to wait up to 72 hours to allow for the changes to propagate and take effect.

To check whether the NS records have propagated, follow these steps:

1. Start Command Prompt.
2. At a command prompt, type nslookup , and then press Enter.
3. Type Set type=ns , and then press Enter.
4. Type your domain name. The following example uses contoso.com as the domain to look up.
   
   

   C:\>nslookup
   Default Server: dns1.contoso.com
   Address: 1.1.1.1
   
   > set type=ns
   > contoso.com
   Server: dns1.contoso.com
   Address: 1.1.1.1
   
   Non-authoritative answer:
   contoso.com nameserver = ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com
   contoso.com nameserver = ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com

This issue occurs if the NS records don't match the following:

• ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com
• ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com

A Nslookup operation is performed on the NS records to find out what the target is. You experience this issue if the target entries don't match these two entries.

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