Easily Migrate Google Drives to Microsoft 365

As organizations continue to adopt Microsoft 365 as their primary productivity platform, many are faced with the challenge of migrating data from Google Workspace, particularly Google Drive, to Microsoft 365. Google Drive often serves as a central repository for business-critical documents, shared folders, and collaborative content, making its migration a crucial step in any platform transition.

Migrating from Google Drive to Microsoft 365 is not just a file-copy exercise. It requires careful planning to preserve folder structures, file permissions, sharing settings, and data integrity while minimizing downtime and user impact. Additionally, organizations must consider differences in collaboration models, storage architecture, and security controls between the two platforms.

This article explores the key considerations, prerequisites, and steps for migrating Google Drive data to Microsoft 365. It is intended to help IT administrators and decision-makers understand the migration process, choose the right approach, and ensure a smooth transition to OneDrive and SharePoint without disrupting day-to-day business operations.

Steps for Migrating Google Drive to OneDrive via Migration Manager

Pre-requisites

• Must be a SharePoint Administrator or Global Admin

• All OneDrive accounts must be provisioned after assigning licenses (via powershell).

Connect-SPOService -Url https://abc-admin.sharepoint.com   

$users = Get-Content -path "C:\user-list.txt" 

Request-SPOPersonalSite -UserEmails $users 

Note: Add users to a .txt file by their UPN.

Steps

1) Goto SharePoint Admin Center --> Migration --> Google Workspace

2) Select Connect to Google Workspace & Click Install & Authorize

You will direct to Google Workspace Marketplace

3) Install the App. You’ll need to login with Super Admin credentials of Google.

4) After installing, again you need to Sign in to Google Workspace

5) Then Google Workspace will connect to Microsoft 365

6) Then it will automatically connect all the Drives to Migrate from Google Workspace

 7) If have already created users with same upn in Microsoft tenant, this will automatically select the destination drives. Or we can manually setup by uploading via a csv.

8) Next step, this process will automatically map the domain, groups and users.

9) Next step, we can set the Migration settings.

10) Final step, Migration will start. You can always check the Migration status and errors from the same path.