Effortless Migration: Google Workspace to Office 365

Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 both offers identical platform and services to users and businesses. When it comes to choosing the cloud productivity platforms, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 comes into everyone’s mind. They differ in terms of features and their integration capabilities. Microsoft 365 offers desktop applications and is more advanced than Google Workspace and this is the reason peoples are migrating from Google Workspace to Office 365. Before going to the migration process, first we will check out some benefits of moving to Microsoft Office 365.

Steps to Migrate from Google Workspace to Office 365

For successful migration, proper planning and preparation is required. You need to consider points explained below for completing the migration successfully.

Planning the Migration

Planning is the first step in the migration process. Identifying the users needed to migrate with data types. Decide if you want to migrate Google Drive data or not. This will make the migration process easier for you. Remove the unnecessary data from your Google Workspace accounts to reduce the size of the data needed for the migration process.

Preparation for the Migration

Preparation is the most crucial stage of any migration process. In this stage we need to prepare our source and target platforms to fulfil the pre migration requirements. It completely depends on the migration process you choose for the migration process. If you are going with the native method, then you will need to add domain, create users in Microsoft 365 and assigning them licenses. Also, you need to create project and more in Google Workspace.

Executing the Migration

Migration can be executed depending on the method you choose. First, you can perform the manual migration by yourself and second you can choose third-party migration services.

• Manual Migration Process

For performing the migration manually, you need to perform some steps to fulfil the pre requirements of the native migration process. In includes multiple steps like Creating project, service account, key, enabling API and more in Google Workspace. You need to check out this guide on migrate from Google Workspace to Office 365 for complete steps and instructions. This process is not so tough, one with proper guidance can perform it easily.

Note: You will require Google Workspace Super Admin Access and Microsoft 365 Global Admin Access to perform the migration using native method.

• Third-Party Services

Migration can also be performed through third-party companies by choosing their expert cloud migration services. If you are struggling with the manual migration or you do not have much time for performing the migration, then you can go with the service providers for your migration requirements. These providers will perform the migration on your behalf with no downtime.

Conclusion:

This article describes the methods and benefits of migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft Office 365. You can go with the manual method, or you can choose migration services from trusted partners. Manual migration is best if you are migrating small number of mailboxes as it requires lots of tasks to perform and this can take your lots of valuable time. If you have any queries regarding the migration, you can comment below. I will be happy to answer any questions.