How to migrate company email from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
Migrating email between cloud office platforms requires moving all messages while managing user accounts and running both systems concurrently during the transition. Without a clear migration path, businesses risk losing access to their company email for sending and receiving, resulting in months of locked-out accounts and disrupted operations.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using BitTitan to assist with migration in batches over a weekend
- 2Utilizing Google's simplified migration tools
- 3Adopting Entra ID (Azure AD) and Intune instead of building an on-premises Active Directory and custom imaging system
- 4Spending hours on the phone with unprepared operatives or AI chat
- 5Canceling the subscription and reorganizing digital marketing from scratch
- 6Using Google Takeout to export mbox files and converting them to PST
- 7Connecting via IMAP in Outlook or Thunderbird to manually drag and drop emails into subfolders
- 8Using native migration tools or third-party services
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“since they partner with Wix I've been unable to use my company email. for sending or receiving business email.”source ↗
“result I've been paying the Mounty fee for the last two months without be able to access my business email, creating a big amount of problem to my business.”source ↗
“Aside from using Google Takeout and then converting the mbox to PST... is there an alternative solution out there for migrating from a personal gmail to Office365?”source ↗
“I understand that M365 does not use tags so I'd like this solution to map tags to subfolders.”source ↗
“New to this side of the field and need to get pricing and info on the switch. Would be looking to build and use an MS AD domain as well. Amy pointers or links appreciated.”source ↗
“I just recreate the users but do need to migrate all of the emails. Looking to run concurrently for a bit until this is set up and then switch over totally.”source ↗
“Unteranderem ist ein teil davon das ich bestehende Konten welche aktuell über ein DC laufen ins Entra bringen kann. Die Konten sollen aber bestehen bleiben genauso wie die Daten welchen drauf sind.”source ↗
Where this came up
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