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Migration from Google Apps: any hints, tips, recommendations?
I just completed over 7000 Google Apps (Mail, Vault, Drive and Sites) to Office 365 for one of our clients.
We used FastTrack services for mailboxes less than 40 GB. FastTrack uses the DELL tool that has limitations and we also identified some bugs that later got fixed but had to run delta passes for migrations as it did not move attachments prior to the bug being fixed. The tool had its limitation and could migrate about 2.5GB per day per user. For any mailboxes over 40GB we used BitTitan MigWiz and it did not have the throttling limitation as the DELL tool did.
For Google Sites to SharePoint Online we used Metalogix Content Migration tool for Google Apps (they no longer sell this tool). The tool was very limited in what it can do and based on numerous calls with the vendor. They mentioned its hard to keep up with the Google API changes which breaks functionality of the tool thus they are not planning any new development on the tool. Most of the Google Sites had data embeded into the sites which was pointing to users Google Drive and most content was also pointing to users Google Drive. We used ShareGate for this part of the migration and it worked out pretty good. We had a couple of hickups but ShareGate support was very prompt on helping us resolve the issues.
For Vault migration we used BitTitan as well and it was great both the product and support we recieved from the BitTitan team.
Let me know if you have any questions happy to help.
Hi Faiza,
We are considering using BitTitan to migrate data from Google Vault to O365, just concerned about Google Throttle limitations, did you have any problems downloading the matters to the Google Vault Extractor VM? Can you remember how much data in average per day were you able to extract from Vault?
Thank yu so much
You will not have Google Throttle limitations, because BitTitan will manage that. You can ask directly to BitTitan that concerns, they will help you.
- Mmm...what do you mean by BitTitan will manage that? As far as I know, in Google as happens in Office 365, there is no way to override throthling settings...so if there is a limit in the number of requiest you can do agains Google, you will not be able to change it
jcgonzalezmartin, Nuno is correct BitTitan's tool has a way to bypass the throttling limitations from Google. If you purchase the BitTitan licences thier services for assissting you for the migration comes with it.
