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Early adopters, Begin migrating user mail data, Migrate shared contacts – Google Apps Technical Transition Guide For Business, Education, and Government User Manual

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Google Apps Technical Transition Guide

If neither of the recommended tools is suitable for your transition, use one of the
following alternatives, according to your needs:

Early Adopters

Begin migrating user mail data

Level of Effort:

Moderate to High (depending on tool used)

You should migrate mail data for your IT team, your early adopters, and as many
additional users as possible during this phase. Most of the migration tools provided by
Google allow you to migrate calendars and contacts at the same time you migrate
mail.

At first, you should migrate mail in batches of five to seven users. Timing these
batches helps you get a sense of how long it will take to migrate mail for all of your
users.

Consult the documentation for the email migration tool you selected during the
Core IT phase for more information on migrating your mail.

Migrate shared contacts

Level of Effort:

Low

Tool

Caveats

Learn More

Google Apps Migration
for Microsoft Outlook
(GAMMO)

Requires user action

Learn More

Google Apps Sync for
Microsoft Outlook
(GASMO)

Users continue using Outlook
instead of the Gmail web
interface

Learn More

Google Apps Email
Migration API

Requires programming

Learn More

Google Mail Fetcher
(POP download)

Requires POP server, requires
user action

Learn More