Google to Office 365
migrations are fairly complex for several reasons:
- While coexistence is possible, it is difficult to configure and more difficult to communicate to your users effectively.
- The end user experience is vastly unique, so communication plans need to be robust
- Because a cutover migration tends to be more effective, it requires a lot of forethought to discover and recognize the gaps in process or behavior and determine which you can fix with a technical resolution and which need to be addressed in end user communication as a change.
One of the biggest
uphill battles is extracting data from Google.
Granted Administrative rights in a Google tenant, there are not any
export or save as options really presented to you.
Enter GAM (Google Account Manager) Wiki
here - GAM is a command line tool that allows administrators to manage many
aspects of their Google Apps account
GAM can be used to
report/export/document a google apps tenants:
- Users
- Groups
- Aliases
- Resource Calendars
The install and
permissions model is well documented in the links above, be sure to use the
latest version of GAM, they seem to consistently update it to include new
functionality.
Once you have it
installed and connected to the tenant there are several command you can use to
extract data to a CSV file which can be users to script and create AD objects,
cloud mailboxes, groups, resource mailboxes, etc.
Export users:
gam print users
allfields > users.csv
Export groups:
Gam print groups
gam print groups name description members managers owners settings > groups.csv
Export aliases:
gam print aliases
allfields > aliases.csv
Export Resource
calendars:
Gam print resources
allfields > resources.csv
Of course, this is
not a read only tool - you can also use the tool to edit/modify users in
bulk. For example, using a migration
tool like BitTitan's MIgrationWiz, you
are not able to extract data from a user who is disabled, so we can disable and
enable users in the Google apps tenant using
Enable:
gam update user
chrislehr suspended off
Disable:
gam update user
chrislehr suspended on
Hope this helps, if there is more interest, I can show how I develop these CSV's into PowerShell to create everything in the Office 365 tenant!
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