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  • Migrating to G Suite: Calendars

    Like contacts, G Suite’s migration tool can only import calendars from MS Exchange systems. But, also like contacts, this is a pretty trivial process. Start by exporting each of your existing calendars in iCal (.ics) format – instructions for doing this from Google Calendar can be found here. Google’s instructions for calendar importing can be…

  • Migrating to G Suite: Contacts

    Strangely, G Suite’s migration tool (mentioned in my previous post) can only import contacts from Microsoft Exchange – no ability to grab them from other GMail or G Suite accounts. Fortunately, contact migration is very simple: I was already using Google Contacts to store my contact information, but this is an easy task regardless of…

  • Migrating to G Suite: E-Mail

    This actually wound up being very easy, primarily because my existing email uses IMAP – it turns out that G Suite’s Migration tool – a part of the Google Admin console – is able to import e-mail from any of the following sources: GMail or G Suite GoDaddy MS Exchange 2003 or later IMAP All…