Advantages of This Tutorial:
✅ Risk-Free: No data loss or chaos, guaranteed.
✅ Zero Downtime: No service interruptions or cutover time.
✅ Fully Automated: Set up the migration and everything else is handled for you.
✅ Data Accuracy: Your email data stays intact – no data is altered or changed.
✅ Flat Rate: Unlimited migrations with no data limits.
✅ Scalable: Suited for both small accounts and enterprise migrations.
Summary: How to Migrate from Office 365 to Gmail
- 1️⃣ Set up your migration
- 2️⃣ Verify your migration
- 3️⃣ Start your migration from Office 365 to Gmail
BONUS: Expert tips for a successful Office 365 to Gmail migration.
And in case you have additional questions, have a look at our FAQs.
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Advantages of
Gmail Compared to Office 365
Office 365 is a popular and powerful business solution for professional email, trusted by companies of all sizes. So, it may seem surprising that some businesses choose to migrate from Office 365 to Gmail.
➡️ If you’re considering to migrate from Office 365 to Gmail, this article will guide you through the process – risk-free, with no downtime, and without losing any data!
Step by Step:How to Migrate from Office 365 to Gmail
Checklist:
What You’ll Need for the Migration
To migrate form Office 365 to Gmail, make sure to have the following at hand:
1️⃣ Your Office 365 credentials (username + password)
2️⃣ Your Gmail credentials (username + password)
3️⃣ MailJerry – our Gmail migration tool
Step 01:
Set Up the Migration
❓ Should I enable the option “Ignore Google Bandwidth Limits”?
We recommend to enable this option only if you need to migrate a very large mailbox and are in a hurry. By doing so, MailJerry will migrate your emails to Gmail as quickly as possible, ignoring Google’s bandwidth limitations.
➡️ However, the advantage of moving more data more quickly to Google’s servers comes with the risk that your migration breaks during the process and you need to re-start the migration. To learn more about this option, have a look at this page.
Step 02:
Verify Your Migration
❓ The mailbox check takes very long, is this normal?
Usually, the mailbox check is performed within one or two minutes. But for large mailboxes, the check might take a little more time. So please be patient and wait until the check finished, especially if it takes a few more minutes to analyse an individual folder that contains lots of large emails.
💡 Expert Tips: To find out which advanced settings might help to speed up your migration, have a look at our expert tips. For regular to mid-size migrations up to 2 GB, you can simply stick with the default settings.
Step 03:
Migrate from Office 365 to Gmail
11. Now all that is left to do is click on “Start Your Migration”. MailJerry will now migrate your email data from Office 365 to Gmail.
✅ Of course, you can simply shut down MailJerry and use your email accounts as usual until the migration finished. You can start a delta migration and sync changes that were applied to your mailbox during the migration as soon as the initial migration finished.
Expert Tips:Three Tips for Your Office 365 to Gmail Migration
These three expert tips are based on our experience in migrating mailboxes from MS 365 to Gmail on a daily basis and will surely help you to perform a smooth and painless migration yourself!
Tip 01:
Automatically Perform a Delta Migration
Tip 02:
Enable the Migration Cache
Tip 03:
Enable the “Reduce Bandwidth” Option
Alternative Methods toMigrate from Office 365 to Gmail
Migrate from Office 365 to Gmail using the Outlook Email Client:
- Drag & Drop: Add your new Gmail account in Outlook and manually drag your data from the old account to the new one.
- PST Export: Export each folder as a PST file and import these files into Gmail.
🚫 Why We Don’t Recommend Outlook for the Migration:
- High Risk of Data Loss: By manually migrating data using Outlook, it’s very easy to forget folders or emails, leading to incomplete or inconsistent migrations.
- Limited Capacity: Outlook struggles with migrating large mailboxes or attachments. The migration can easily break when exceeding Gmails bandwidth limits.
- Extremely Time-Consuming: Manual transfer can take hours or even days, making Outlook an acceptable solution only for very small mailboxes.
- No Delta Migration: New emails received during migration must be moved manually – there’s no automatic sync.
- Long Cutover & Downtimes: Since mailboxes shouldn’t be used during the migration, you need to expect long cutover and downtimes.
- No Data Accuracy: Especially when migrating emails for clients, guaranteeing data accuracy is an important factor, which cannot be fulfilled when manually migrating email data with Outlook.
- No Monitoring or Logs: There’s no progress tracking, summary, reporting or log files that help you to verify and confirm that all email data was migrated to Gmail.
Migrate from Office 365 to Gmail using Gmail’s Migration Tools:
- IMAP Migration Tool
- GWMME (Google Workspace Migration for Microsoft Exchange)
🚫 Why We Don’t Recommend Google’s Native Migration Tools:
- Very Time Consuming: Google migration tools are very slow, because they hone Gmails bandwidth limits to protect their cloud infrastructure. Of course, Google doesn’t offer any workarounds, limiting your migration to a daily upload of 500 MB.
- Complex Setup: Both tools require creating and uploading mapping CSV files – a tedious task prone to configuration errors.
- Risk of Data Loss: GWMME requires to manually export a PST file for every folder, which makes it easy to accidentally skip individual folders or messages.
- Limited Monitoring: Progress visibility is minimal, and Google doesn’t provide detailed logs or error reports.
- Not Suitable for Medium and Large-Scale Migrations: Googles tools might work for small mailboxes but aren’t suitable for professional or enterprise-level migrations due to limited control, validation, and reporting features.
"My mailbox migration is complete and it is commendable that MailJerry outperformed all the migration softwares in the market including Google's own which was really pathetic.
✅ As both comparisons have shown, it’s recommendable to use a professional Gmail migration tool to migrate from Office 365 to Gmail. And heads up: As this article has shown, performing a professional migration does not have to be complex or time consuming!
With MailJerry, you can easily start a professional Gmail migration with unlimited data volume and for unlimited mailboxes, for a very, very affordable rate!
FAQ:Frequent Questions when Migrating from Office 365 to Gmail
I have IMAP folders in my Office 365 account. How are they converted to Gmail labels?
My migration to Gmail is extremely slow. Is this normal?
What does the option „Ignore Google Bandwidth Limits“ do?
The auto-sync creates duplicates. What can I do?
Why does the number of migrated emails differ between Office 365 and Gmail?
If the message count differs between your Office 365 and your Gmail account, your emails might be grouped into conversations in your Gmail account. To see the correct message count, turn off the conversation view in your Gmail account.
