Monday, December 29, 2008

How to Migrate Data if you decided to terminate Google Apps Service

Migrating data away from Google Apps

If you've decided to use another solution for your organization's email, calendars, documents, and sites, don't forget to migrate your data to your new solution before deleting your Google Apps account.
Here's a list a data transfer options available for Google Apps:


Email: Gmail accounts offer an option to download all mail to your computer via POP or IMAP access with a local desktop client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. How to configure your mail client: POP instructions & IMAP instructions
Contacts: Each email account allows users to export the contacts list in a CSV or vCard format. Export details
Calendar: Google Calendar offers the ability to download an iCal file to your desktop (limited to calendars that are publicly shared), or you can visit http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/yourdomain/exporticalzip (Make sure to replace your domain with your actual domain name) to download all calendars in your 'My Calendars' list. Export details
Docs: Google Docs lets you save your documents, spreadsheets and presentations to your hard drive in various formats. Export details
Sites: Google Sites doesn't currently offer an export feature.
Start Page: Since the start page service helps you access content but doesn't contain data itself, exporting data isn't applicable for this service.
Web Pages: Google Page Creator doesn't offer an export feature; however, when viewing your web pages, you can view the page source and save your HTML code to your hard drive for use in another application.

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