Now it's easy to switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Today we're making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. With the tool, migrations are:

Easy: set it up in just 4 steps
Efficient: select the combination of mail, calendar and contact data that you want to move, with the option of doing so in phases
Fast: migrate hundreds of users at the same time
Painless: employees can continue to use Microsoft Exchange during the migration without interruption or any involvement on their part

As Paul Lovett, Project Manager for the Google Apps project at New Zealand Post, described, "We are a very calendar-bound organization, so Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange was the missing link in our migration strategy, allowing us to perform a server-side migration of our calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange 2003. We moved our corporate executive team first which required spot-on accuracy and a quality product, and Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange met that high bar.”

The tool has been a boon to our Google Apps partners as well. Mayooran Rajan, CTO of Revevol Consulting, noted, "We work with companies with 100 to 20,000 employees. This tool will help us move our clients to Google Apps faster and more efficiently, helping us save them time and money."

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange works with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, and both on-premise and hosted Exchange. It's available free to Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers here. If you're considering the switch from Microsoft Exchange, you can find resources to help make your decision here.

Also, for those who have already gone Google by making the switch to Google Apps, you can share your experiences and spread the word at www.google.com/apps/spreadtheword.

Learn about Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange best practices and customer experiences:
Posted by Abhishek Bapna, Product Manager

Editor's note: Original links to registration page removed on 03/29/2010.

10 comments:

renes said...

Can you book conference rooms through Google Calendar?

If so, can you analyze room utilization by number of attendees versus room capacity and by time of day? Organizations, such as universities, analyze such data for capacity planning and determining if resources are being used efficiently.

Mak said...

Excelente, congratulations!

Rayson Ho said...

A few issues in the event registration page:

1) What email server does your business currently use?

- the pull-down menu has the option "otus Notes/ Domino R7 or older", which should be "Lotus Notes/ Domino R7 or older"


2) "What spam and virus protection solution does your business currently use:"

- If "None" is selected, the page considers it as an invalid option.

Other than those minor issues, I would like to say that you have done a good job, Google!! I look forward to seeing more MS customers move over!!

Roel van Bueren said...

When are you going to release 'Google Apps Migration for Novell GroupWise'?

Michael said...

Cool! Great stuff!

I have the problem to sync my Google mobile phone and exchange every day...

Hicham Alaoui said...

Hi Rayson, sorry about the issues on the event registration page. I hope you were able to attend the webinar. Thanks, -Hicham

AlexAlexeev said...

is is only available for the paid flavor of the Google Apps?

Jürgen said...

We have to migrate from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 - is it already supported?

Raymond said...

Guys, what about Exchange 2010 support ??

Jason Jones said...

Does this tool work for migrating from microsoft online services to google apps?

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