Google Apps and Office 365 Coexistence – Unleash the Facts & Benefits

Is it possible to work with G Suite and Office 365 together in an organization?

Yes! Google Apps and Office 365 can coexist in the same company very easily. Let’s uncover Google Apps and Office 365 coexistence!

You heard it right, but why it is required?

So, in the current era, lots of organizations need to set up G Suite and Office 365 integration simultaneously because of several reasons like -

• Uninterrupted business through interoperability
• Take advantage of O365 tools along with Google Apps
• Save precious time & money with minimum change management

All of these can be achieved by G Suite application seamlessly. It provides the facility to using both Google Apps and Office 365 together. The greatest thing is end-user do not have to take pressure on how all the work is done.

So, What is the Problem?

Sometimes the enterprises need to migrate their emails from G Suite to Microsoft O365 environment by maintaining the existing custom domain. And, they often think that the G Suite and Office 365 coexistence process is difficult, in fact, it is super easy.

Therefore, in this technical post, we are going to show how to set up email flow using Google Apps and Office 365 together.

Solution – Steps to Configure Google Apps and Office 365 Coexistence

It is considered that currently organization using G Apps email service and planning to assist future email workload to Office 365 in order to manage the existing domain name. After that, execute the below-mentioned steps sequentially.

• When the domain name setup in MS O365 account, it can be viewed similar as shown in the screenshot. This will be shown when the user adds the Text records, Mail exchanger records and Service records in Office 365.

• Once the above steps get completed, go to EAC by clicking on Admin >> Exchange. Afterwards, select ‘accepted domains’ under the mail flow section.

• The new ‘Accepted Domain’ section pops-up, where the User domain and Microsoft service domain both are displayed. Right now, the domain type is shown as ‘Authoritative’, but it should be changed into ‘Internal Relay’. By doing this, email will transfer from Gmail to Office 365 mail users.

• In order to change the status of domain type, double-click on Production Domain to open the Accepted Domain wizard. Here, select the radio button labeled as Internet Relay and click on Save.

• A Warning appears on the screen that conveys message ‘There is no outbound connector to deliver email for this domain’. Just click on OK in order to create the outbound connector.

• After that, in order to make Outbound email connector, navigate to Mail Flow from the left side navigation pane. Here, click on Connectors tab and select ‘+’ sign.

• A New Connector tab pop-up to in order to generate a mail flow connector. Now, a user needs to select Office 365 under the From box and Your organization’s email server’ under To box. Then, click on Next to continue.

• From the next window, provide a relevant name to the connector and check the boxes under the What do you want to do after connector is saved? section. Then, hit the Next button.

• Now, there is a need to mention when a user will use the mail flow connector. There are three options are available. For current situation, we have to select the option ‘Only when email messages are sent to these domains’ and press ‘+’ to provide the name of the domain that used above. And, click on Next for further process.

• After that, there is a requirement to add a smart host in order to setup O365 to get the relayed messages. It should be Google smart host i.e., aspmx.l.google.com. Then, click on Save >> Next.

• From the New connector page, unchecked Always use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure the connection and press the Next button.

• When all the settings have setup on the connector, a complete summary report will show on the screen and click Next to bring out the Validation page.

• It’s time to verify the connector which is created. For this, you need to click on ‘+’ to add the user email address and click on Validate option to check the working of connector.

• A long sequence of validation run for the verification of connector. If a mail connector is working properly, validation process gets successfully completed. And, click on Close.

• At last, click on Save to make G Suite and Office 365 coexistence.

Note: If you want to convert Google Apps data to Office 365, then you can use G Suite to Office 365 Migrator to migrate from Google Apps mailboxes to Office 365 securely.

In the End

Nowadays, it becomes very much popular to work with G Apps along with Office 365 in an organization. Therefore, in this post, we have discussed a step-by-step guide to configure Google Apps and Office 365 coexistence between the two platforms.

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