Moving a primary domain in Google Suite

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#208022 23-Jan-2017 19:05

Hi folks... I have both "Domain A" and "Domain B" both with their own Google Suite accounts "Account A" and "Account B".

What I want to do is to make "Domain A" an alias for "Domain B".

Initial status:

Account A/Domain A
Account B/Domain B

End status:

Account A/
Account B/Domain B, Domain A

A "Mailbox X" exists in each domain so ideally contents would be merged, if not then I can always copy to an Outlook PST file and copy back after moving domains.

I could of course just remove delete Domain A and add it to Account B but I am not sure if this can be done - don't want to delete it, finding out it can't be added to another account and then not being able to reinstate.

Anyone done that?

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#1708276 23-Jan-2017 20:13

Sorry, never needed to try that. I did find this however: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6260895?hl=en

That looks like what you want?

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#1708279 23-Jan-2017 20:15

Thanks. That page is for transferring domains between registry accounts, not within Google Apps.

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#1708299 23-Jan-2017 20:34

To be honest, this would be a good time to migrate to Office 365!

I think as you said, delete domain on one account and add to another, then manually upload outlook data file would be best for this Google Apps migration - perhaps over a long weekend.

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#1708300 23-Jan-2017 20:36

Yes, I am thinking of moving these domains (wife's) to Office 365. If there's no east path that might be the way.

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#1708307 23-Jan-2017 20:51

freitasm:
I could of course just remove delete Domain A and add it to Account B but I am not sure if this can be done - don't want to delete it, finding out it can't be added to another account and then not being able to reinstate.

Anyone done that?

This ^^^ is Google's suggested method

https://support.google.com/a/answer/4417332?hl=en

Step 3 says:

Add the domain whose account you deleted to the account you chose to keep.
Add the domain as either a separate domain or domain alias, depending on whether the domain has its own set of users. Which should I choose?

Clint

Edit :added relevant section from page

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#1708309 23-Jan-2017 20:53

Thanks... That's the confirmation I needed. Perhaps I didn't formulate the search well enough to find this KB.

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#1708317 23-Jan-2017 21:05

I've done a fair bit with Google Apps for customers, including moving things around, changing account names, though I don't know if I merged two accounts. It's a bit late for me to think right now, but if you need a hand give me a yell.

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#1708323 23-Jan-2017 21:14

From memory this was how I did it the one time i had to change a client from one domain to the another ( the domain they originally wanted was not available when we set them up )

Thankfully we had fibre so migrating with PSTs and IMAP didn't take to long :)

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#1708333 23-Jan-2017 21:42

Google apps has an email migration tool built in. Does IMAP, probably not PST.

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#1708335 23-Jan-2017 21:44

The G Suite Migration tool would do it - copy the emails down to a PST file, move domain, use the tool to import back to new account.

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#1708392 23-Jan-2017 23:35

I don't think I would use a PST file to migrate between Google Suite/apps accounts. Might be because of bad experiences with PST files and Outlook...

I have had great success with this tool, especially with accounts with lots of data: Backupify Migrator

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