Additional help with Google Workspace setup & management
Use the following PDF guides to access additional information when you're setting up and managing your organization's Google Workspace account.
Note: The PDFs are available only in English.
Data migration guides
| Migrate user data from your old environment to Google Workspace. | |
| Google Workspace Migrate: Data migration best practices | Plan large-scale migrations of user data (email messages, calendars, files, and so on) to Google Workspace using Google Workspace Migrate. |
| Google Workspace Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GWMME) | Migrate your users' mail, contacts, and calendar events directly from Microsoft Exchange, Novell, GroupWise, Cyrus, Courier, Dovecot, and other RFC 3501-compliant IMAP servers. |
You can also find more information on all of Google Workspace's migration products in these Help Center articles: Google Workspace migration product matrix and Migrate your organization’s data to Google Workspace.
User provisioning guide
| Set up your users and synchronize their data and passwords with your existing LDAP servers. | |
| Best Practices for Managing Identities When You Move to Google Cloud | Manage identities as a Google Cloud, Google Workspace, and Cloud Identity admin when you move to Google Cloud. |
Networking guide
| Determine the best approach for complex networks or multiple domains (for medium to large organizations). | |
| Google Workspace Networking Best Practices for Large Deployments | Optimize your large-scale IP network for Google Workspace. Intended for admins of complex, globally distributed networks. Admins of smaller networks might also find this information useful. |
Security guides
| Make your Google Workspace environment safer. | |
| How to mitigate ransomware risks for Google Workspace documents | Reduce ransomware and crypto-locking risks for your Google Workspace documents. |
| Zero trust best practices guide for U.S. public sector agencies | Align your Google Workspace deployment with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model. |
| Google Workspace AI classification | Learn about Google's approach to data classification and how AI classification works for Google Drive. |
Google Workspace coexistence guides
| Select the best coexistence scenario for your situation (for medium to large organizations). | |
| Calendar Interop in Hybrid Setup with Microsoft Exchange and Exchange Online | Set up Calendar Interoperability between on-premises Exchange 2016 or later, Exchange Online, and Google Workspace. The goal is to help users find the free/busy status of other users between the different systems. |
| Google Workspace & Microsoft Office 365 coexistence overview | Understand how Google Workspace can coexist with Microsoft Office 365. Learn how to use and customize services and settings for mail, calendar, chat, video meetings, device management, and many others. |
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