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Move Email from Office 365 to Google Apps - O365 to G Suite Migration

Published on 08 February 18
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Data safety becomes the chief apprehension to every user whenever they need to transfer or save their data from one platform to another. Every user wants to prefer manual methods as their first approach. However, manual methods have their own disadvantages also; they have no assurance of data security. Today in this write-up, we will discuss one such complicated software-switching task Office 365 to Google apps migration. Office 365 account contains all our business data and backing up this entire official information to any file format is a very sensitive task. Therefore, we recommend users to use a trusted third party tool to take backup of entire data items of Office 365 account in PST file format and then migrate PST to G suite using Gammo tool. Office 365 Exporter is one of the safest and secure platforms to move emails from Office 365 to PST file format.
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"From past 4 years, I was working with an organization where Office 365 is used to execute all commercial errands. Recently, I have been changed my company and here we use Google Apps to manage our official workings. Now, I need to move emails from my Office 365 to Google Apps. Please, someone suggest some efficient guidelines for O365 to G suite migration to execute this task without any data loss. Thank you!"
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Both Office 365 and Google Apps are widely used productivity official tools to perform the business tasks 'in the cloud'. Via these tools, users can create new spreadsheets, presentations, documents and collaborate with team members. As we know that, both Office suites provide almost similar services but why users want to migrate from Office 365 to Google Apps?
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Why user wants to move emails from Office 365 to Google Apps?
Google Apps offers some best services at attractive prices. The collaboration and communication with G suite s easy while we compare it with Office 365. In addition, there are various reasons for what Google Apps is better than Office 365 and some of them are mentioned below:
  • Direct files sharing service using Gmail
  • Context minimizing with research pane
  • Google Add-Ons for improved productivity
  • Social applications integrated office suite
  • Collaborative Jamboard whiteboarding
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Methods to Migrate from Office 365 to Google Apps
In this section, we will discuss some manual and automatic techniques of moving emails from Office 365 to Google Apps.
Method 1: Migrating Public Folder Data from Office 365 to G Apps via GAMME
For moving entire data items as emails, contacts, calendars, and public folder from Office 365 to Google Apps use following guidelines:
  • Launch OWA (Outlook Web Access) and enter required credentials for login
  • Now select the server name via which you need to connect
  • After successful server connection, configure GAMMO to save or move data via IMAP
  • Now, the software will start downloading your Office 365 data on your PC
  • Upload this downloaded data to Google server
  • If you have OWA access then, you can move several users at once via GAMME
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Note: GAMME is free software developed by Google Company.
Method 2: Moving Office 365 Contacts and Calendars via Desktop-Based Outlook
If you need to migrate your Office 365 calendar and Address Book into Google Apps then, you can follow this method. Here we will use MS Outlook (any version of Outlook) to execute the mentioned task. Now, follow the below steps:
  • Verify that Auto Discovery Option of your account is enabled or not
  • If this option is turned on then, there is no requirement of server information for configuring Outlook through Office 365. Now, you can directly login via credentials and connect to server automatically.
  • In case if, Auto Discovery option is disabled then, turn it on. Enter all the required server information for configuring MS Outlook
  • After successful Outlook configuration, start downloading contacts and calendar folders
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Note: The data downloading time depends upon the amount of data and your signal strength
  • Cons of Manual Techniques:
  • Concern of Data security
  • Not apt for large sized data
  • Long time taking procedure
  • Technical knowledge is must
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Method 3: Professional Technique
As we discussed before that manual methods are not so secure way of data migration. As well as they are not suitable for transferring a large amount of data. Therefore, we suggest users Office 365 Exporter tool. This tool converts the entire Office 365 data items into PST file format without any data loss. To move email from Office 365 to Google Apps, users have to take the backup of all Office 365 data items in PST file format via this tool. After that, they can easily import/migrate/save this PST file into Google Apps via GAMMO tool.
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The Bottom Line
This article contains the solutions to move emails from Office 365 to Google Apps. Here, we have been discussed various manual and automatic methods to perform the mentioned task. Manual methods are easy but data security is the major concern to use them. Therefore, Office 365 Exporter is one of the best and safest ways to take backup of Office 365 data into PST file format. However, users can opt any of method as per their requirements.
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  1. 05 June 19
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    You must try out Office 365 Email Backup Wizard which easily backup all the data items from Office 365 account. It provides options to create Office 3 65 backup into multiple file and email formThis. This software allows you to migrate mailbox from Office 365 to pst account. It does not save your personal information during migration process Visit at ; https://www.downloadfreeware.org/office-365-backup/

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