Forum Discussion
Migrate from Gmail to Office 365
What will you use to do the migration?
Adam
My plan was to follow this guide and use the IMAP migration for emails
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/migrating-imap-mailboxes/migrate-g-suite-mailboxes
So I can go ahead and create all my shared mailboxes before hand and should be okay in migrating the emails to it with IMAP?
EDIT: I found that this was an option https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2019/04/16/introducing-the-new-migration-experience-from-google-g-suite/
Seems like Microsoft has added a new GSuite migration option within the EAC. I found this guide https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/mailbox-migration/perform-g-suite-migration but I'm unsure if it will work for Shared mailboxes
You don't need a license for the shared mailbox but need to assign a licensed user to it prior to migration. If this is your 1st G-Suite migration and budget allows, you might want to consider using a 3rd party migration tool to assist. G-Suite IMAP migrations can be tricky and time consuming, for example Google throttles mailbox transfer @ 2GB per day with a 24 hour wait before the sync process starts again.
disclaimer: i have no interest, financial or otherwise, with any of the tool vendors. i have however used several over the course of many migrations, they really do save time and provide top notch support.
- Keep in mind also that a 3rd party license will probably be required for the shared mailbox
yes, agreed and good point. the one's I've used do count shared mailboxes as a migration 'seat'.
