- Setup your new Google G Suite account
- Verify Domain ownership and setup MX records
- Setup Billing information
- Add users to the domain
- Email Forwarding
- Install SysCloud fully automated Online Migration App
- Start Migration
- Adding Domain Alias
1. Setup your new Google G Suite account
- Sign up for the Google G Suite account with the new domain name at apps.google.com (www.domainB.com) and setup the new Google G Suite account.
- Click on “Get Started” button to sign up as shown in the figure below.
- Create your new Google G Suite login, enter the details about your organization and submit the form. Post successful submission, you will be redirected to the setup wizard page.
- Logout and login, you will be prompted to switch to your new admin account.
NOTE: If the new domain name (www.domainB.com) is currently a domain alias to the old domain (www.domainA.com), then first you have to remove the domain alias. Deletion of the domain alias and using it for the creation of the new Google G Suite account (www.domainB.com) may cause you to wait for a minimum of 6-8 hours. To speed up this process, you can contact Google support. You should also check with Google support or SysCloud migration experts when there is any data loss if this is a secondary domain or domain alias.
2. Verify Domain ownership and setup MX records
- Log in to your admin console. Choose More —->Domains. Click on “Add a domain or a domain alias” button and the screen appears as shown below.
- Select the option either as a domain or domain alias and enter the domain name. Click on “Continue and verify domain ownership”, the following screen appears. Choose the “Recommended settings” tab.
- To setup the MX Records, you need to choose your domain registrar from the dropdown list as shown above.
- The MX records point to the company that manages and delivers all your emails. It is important to modify the records to Google from your existing email provider, so that all your emails will be sent to your new primary domain.For instance, if you choose “Go Daddy” as your domain registrar, the following screen appears.
NOTE: The migration of data is independent of MX records.
3. Setup Billing information
- Click on the “Billing” option in your Google G Suite Admin Control Panel to set up the billing information.
4. Add users to the domain
- Click on “Add users” button in the admin console screen.
- Google provides you multiple ways to add users to your domain. If you wish to add a list of users at once, then you can choose “CSV file upload”.
5. Email Forwarding
- To do email forwarding, click on Settings —-> Settings option in the administrator account mailbox.
- Choose “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” option and the following screen appears.
- Choose “Forward a copy of incoming mail to”, pick the email address and choose “how to forward” from the available list of options as shown above.
6. Install SysCloud fully automated Online Migration App
Install SysCloud fully automated Online Migration App to your Source domain for migration.
7. Start Migration
- Enter the domain migration details. As soon as you click on “Start Migration” button in our application, the migration begins and thus, you can start using your new Google G Suite domain.
8. Adding Domain Alias
- Once the migration is done, get the acknowledgment from all the users that their accounts are migrated.
- Now, remove the old Google G Suite domain and add it as domain alias to the new Google G Suite account.
NOTE: When you remove the old Google G Suite account i.e., the old primary domain from Google, it may take nearly 8 to 24 hours for the removal process. For further help, contact Google support.
Get a free consultation and speak to our Migration Experts to know how you can perform the Domain migration process in a simple and secure way. Write to us at helpdesk@syscloud.com for any queries.