Google Workspace to Microsoft 365

Leaving Google for Microsoft with mail history, Drive content and Groups intact. Labels become folders, Docs become Office files, Groups become distribution lists — and the rest is listed.

Typical moves.

Standardising on Microsoft

A Google Workspace acquisition joining a Microsoft 365 company: people, mail, drives and Groups into the existing tenant.

Enterprise requirements

Compliance, Teams or Exchange features the business now needs. Keep the history, gain the platform.

Bringing a subsidiary in

One Workspace domain folded into the corporate tenant, with its addresses preserved.

In detail.

Gmail → mailboxes

Messages imported with dates, read state and flags; labels become folders; starred becomes flagged.

Calendar & contacts

RRULE recurrence converted to Exchange patterns; reminders and free/busy kept; People become contacts.

Drive → OneDrive

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides exported as Word, Excel and PowerPoint; other files streamed as they are; sharing re-granted.

Groups → distribution lists

Google Groups become distribution lists or Microsoft 365 Groups with members and aliases.

Shared drives → sites

Each shared drive becomes a SharePoint site with a library and mapped roles.

Chat spaces → Teams

Each space becomes a team with one channel; history imported under the original authors.

Good to know before you plan

  • Gmail filters and Google-only calendar features (appointment schedules, working locations) are listed, not converted.
  • Docs with complex formatting are exported by Google's own converter; fidelity matches "Download as".
  • Domain cutover claims the domain in Microsoft 365 and checks MX, SPF and Autodiscover before the switch.

Six steps, one page each.

Connect both tenants, assess, match users, migrate in waves, verify and keep in sync, cut over. Every step lives on its own tab with the numbers that matter and the next action ready.

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