For years, G Suite has been ‘the common house name’ among enterprises that rely on Gmail and Google Drive for email and file storage services. G Suite’s uncomplicated and effortless features are one of the main reasons why organizations rely on it for productivity needs. However, with the constant changes happening in the Modern Workplace, businesses are now steadily adapting themselves to Office 365 to avail its unparalleled business specific features.
If you’ve got used to the ways of Google Workspace based productivity applications, adopting Office 365 can be a bit strenuous task for you. But don’t worry! In this blog we’ve suggested three easy ways to help you kick start your G Suite to Office 365 migration journey. Without much ado, let’s dive in!
Switching from G Suite to Office 365 can be made easy if you follow these suggestions!
1. Start with Web-based Applications!
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As G Suite is entirely a web-based application most of the G Suite users, will find it hard to work with the desktop version of Office 365. Unlike G Suite, Office 365 is not an entirely web-based application. And thus, while trying to migrate from G Suite to Office 365, it’s always good to start with the web-based applications of Office 365, instead of using its desktop version.
However, if once you’ve become comfortable with the ways of Microsoft you can slowly make your transition from web-based to desktop applications of Office 365.
2. Let Your Office 365 Journey Begin with Teams!
As Google offers a standard user experience for all its Gmail and Google Drive users, adopting Outlook and OneDrive can be a bit complicated for the newbies of Office 365.
If you’re planning to migrate all your employees’ account from G Suite to Office 365 don’t be in a hurry. Let them start with Teams!
Teams’ user-friendly and sleek user experience may increase your employee’s willingness to adopt Office 365. And so, it’s always advised to shift from Google Hangouts to Microsoft Teams instead of starting with something complex like Gmail to Outlook.
Starting from known to unknown features would simplify your migration process without any hiccups!
3. Approach third-party providers!
Remember, no matter what you try, simply migrating from G Suite to Office 365 can never be the end solution. The end solution lies in the user experience! Planning to perform migration through an inbuilt/native migration solution may sound like a cool idea. But beware of data loss! Especially when you’re migrating a huge number of files.
Here are the three things that you should look for in your third-party migration solution:
- Is it secure and reliable?
- Do they have a successful migration history?
- Do they offer custom solutions after migrating to Office 365?
If you’re looking for a completely automated and flexible migration tool, try AVAMIGRATRON!
With our years of expertise, we’ve constantly pushed boundaries to help our clients enjoy a risk-free and secure migration. Having worked with clients across different fields, we have realized that it’s normal for enterprises to expect some of their G Suite features in Office 365. Understanding this, we offer custom solutions to our clients who wish to retain the same look and feel that they experienced in their G Suite software.
Our clients have experienced hassle-free migration without any downtime in their production sites which has reflected in their customer’s delight.
Looking forward to adopting Office 365? Then schedule a demo with us to know what our experts have in their store for you!
