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Anyone using Google Apps for Non-Profits? I have a few questions about your migration process if you are using Google Apps specifically about the email migration.
1. Did you move from Microsoft Exchange 365?
2. How many active email accounts do you have?
3. Did you experience any issues during migration process for your org (calendars, email...etc.)?
4. How long did the migration take?
5. Was there any timestamps issue with archived emails?
6. Is Google for non-profits meeting you expectations/needs?
7. Any other information you think I would like to know.
Thanks,
Travis
We just went to Google Apps in October. We have 196 accounts, most of them migrated from Lotus Notes/Domino 7. Since Notes' web and mobile experiences were just horrible, we've had a lot of happy users now that we're in the new system.
The one issue we had was migrating over old mail, which drove us and our consultants batty. The root issue was that some of our people were grandfathered in to accounts without a quota. Those people (roughly 10% by number of users, but over 30% of the total volume of data) had lots of problems getting all of the mail over in a timely fashion. It took weeks for most, and we still have some a handful of stragglers, mostly people who had (inadvertently?) encrypted their mail. This likely would have been solved properly with more time, but we had a very tight window to get this done.
That said, we focused on getting 2012 email in first, and that took about a week for everyone. We're also sitting on a 100 Mbit connection, so that helps.
No issues with timestamps. For most people, the migration was easy. Folders turned into labels, message threads turned into conversations, etc.
We really pushed training. Hard. It was mandatory, and there were multiple small sessions to get everyone in. We focused only on Mail, Calendars, and Contacts for the migration, but now we're exploring more of the collaborative features of Drive (formerly Docs) and Groups.
Feel free to let me know if you've got any other questions.
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Thanks for the information!