Standardising on Google
An acquired Microsoft shop joining a Google-first company. Keep their mail history, drives and shared addresses; give them Gmail on day one.
Leaving Microsoft for Google without losing the last ten years. Folders become labels, shared mailboxes become Groups, Teams become Chat spaces — and everything that can't be translated is written down, not dropped.
An acquired Microsoft shop joining a Google-first company. Keep their mail history, drives and shared addresses; give them Gmail on day one.
Fewer suites, fewer licenses. Move the people, keep the addresses, retire the tenant.
Start clean in Workspace with the history you need and none of the SharePoint you don't.
Messages travel as standard MIME with dates, read state and flags; folders become labels; categories become labels.
Events converted field by field including recurrence (Graph patterns → RRULE), reminders and free/busy; contacts to People.
Files streamed across; Office files stay Office files; sharing re-granted to the matched Google accounts.
Each shared mailbox becomes a Google Group with the same address and members; its contents land in the Group's collaborative inbox where enabled.
Libraries become shared drives with Owners / Members / Visitors mapped to managers / contributors / viewers.
Channels merge into one Chat space with history imported under the original authors.
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.
Read the complete playbookConnect the source tenant and see users, sizes, shared mailboxes, sites and Teams scored in minutes. Nothing moves until you say so.
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