G Suite gives organizations and professionals the tools they need to have safe and reliable communication and collaboration. Some of them are lucky enough to get it from day one, but in many cases, the organization might be using a certain version of Microsoft Office and they will need you to help them migrate.

Free Google accounts offer a wide range of solutions, so it's not rare to see users and businesses using the free version, but then looking to upgrade to G Suite at some point, if at the least to get a custom domain name.

Even if Google accounts are the most popular choice for personal accounts, Microsoft has been around for longer. Therefore, corporations are more familiar with it and many have been using it for many years, and changing to something different is a big step for them. As a G Suite administrator, it's your duty to make the transition smooth and ensure that things just keep working and no information is lost.

In this chapter, we will learn how to migrate emails between G Suite and external Gmail accounts, as well as from Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, or webmail providers using an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) like Yahoo or iCloud.

We will see how to integrate G Suite with Microsoft Exchange accounts so that members of the organization can use both services to have a smooth transition between systems.

As an administrator, you will also learn how to migrate emails, calendar events, and contacts information from Microsoft Exchange accounts and other sources, like Hotmail or Yahoo, into G Suite.

Be ready to learn the steps and best practices to migrate all of this information so that when we finish this chapter, you know how to do the following:

• Identify the requirements for successful migration of corporate emails, contacts, and calendars
• Perform email migrations from other service providers
• Perform contacts migrations from other service providers
• Perform calendar events migrations from other service providers
• Integrate G Suite with existing Microsoft Exchange accounts

We will start by learning how to manage email, contacts, and calendar events.