Migrating from Exchange to Gmail

Starky · 22 Jun 2009 at 21:23

Hey guys, could use your help with this!

I'm working in the software division of a small company and we're having problems with our exchange host. To this end, we really want to all get google mail accounts and ditch exchange altogether so that we can handle things internally.

However we wish to still use Outlook 2007 to access the gmail accounts and still use our current calenders/contacts/inbox without losing anything. We'd be asking the company hosting our domain to auto-forward all emails to their associated gmail accounts so that we receive future emails.

Is this possible? Running Windows Server 2003 if it makes any difference, I tried for a little while today and got a bit frustrated at it!

Would really appreciate any advice

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2009 at 21:27

What?

If you have Windows Server 2003, host exchange yourself.

Starky · 22 Jun 2009 at 21:32

Should have mentioned that this was not the route that we wanted to take - we use it for a development environment, our computers don't stay on all the time and the servers that we're running our service on are hired out.

RobH · 23 Jun 2009 at 10:38

As far as I'm aware you can do this quite easily, it involves downloading a tool on each machine and running it to configure each machine. Have a look at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync

CliffyG · 23 Jun 2009 at 12:48

if you want a server-less solution why not try http://www.microsoft.com/online/default.mspx, you get full outlook web access functionality as well as Outlook Anywhere (formerly rpc over https). Not sure google will give you all the stuff you need.

Macro · 23 Jun 2009 at 13:00

Alternatively if it's a small business it's worth looking at Office live for email webspace calander shared docs etc - http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/en-GB/