IT services
Move your business email to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 with every email, folder, contact and calendar carried across, and no lost mail on the day you switch.
Your team can live without a new website for a week. They cannot live without email for an hour. A rushed migration means missing messages, broken calendars, phones that stop syncing and staff who cannot log in on Monday morning.
We plan every migration so the switch happens out of hours, mail keeps flowing throughout, and your team logs in the next morning to find everything where they left it.
Both are good platforms. The right one depends on how your team works.
| Google Workspace | Microsoft 365 | |
|---|---|---|
| Email and calendar | Gmail and Google Calendar, in the browser or apps | Outlook, on desktop, browser and phone |
| Documents | Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, built for working in the browser | Word, Excel and PowerPoint, desktop apps included in most plans |
| Files | Google Drive and shared drives | OneDrive and SharePoint |
| Meetings and chat | Google Meet and Google Chat | Microsoft Teams |
| Suits teams who | Work mainly in the browser and collaborate on the same documents | Rely on desktop Office files, Excel models or Teams |
If you are not sure, we will ask a few questions about how your team works and recommend one.
| Moving from | To Google Workspace | To Microsoft 365 |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 or Office 365 | Yes | Tenant to tenant |
| Google Workspace | Workspace to Workspace | Yes |
| Microsoft Exchange (on-premises) | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting provider email (GoDaddy, IONOS, 123 Reg, LCN and others) | Yes | Yes |
| cPanel, IMAP or POP mailboxes | Yes | Yes |
| Zoho Mail and other providers | Yes | Yes |
[to confirm: any platforms you do not support]
Microsoft 365, still often called Office 365, is the most common destination for our clients. We move mailboxes from Google Workspace, hosting providers, Exchange servers or another Microsoft 365 tenant, set up licences and security, and configure Outlook on every computer and phone. If you are joining two businesses or moving away from a reseller, we handle tenant-to-tenant migrations too.
For teams moving to Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive, we use Google’s own migration tools or a dedicated migration service, depending on the size and source. We set up users, groups, shared drives and security, and show your team how to work with Gmail if they are used to Outlook.
We list every mailbox, alias, shared mailbox, group and device, check how much data there is, and review your domain and DNS settings.
A written plan with the method, the cutover date and time, what your team needs to do (usually very little) and how we will roll back if something goes wrong.
Users, licences, groups, shared mailboxes, security settings and multi-factor authentication, ready before any mail moves.
We copy existing email, contacts and calendars to the new system while the old one keeps working. Nothing changes for your team yet.
Out of hours, we switch your domain's mail records so new mail arrives in the new system, then run a final sync to catch anything sent in the meantime.
Outlook, Gmail and phones connected to the new accounts, in person or remotely.
We are on hand the next working day, and for the following weeks, to fix anything that does not look right.
DNS
A migration changes a few records on your domain. Getting them right is what keeps mail flowing and out of spam folders.
Since 2024, Google and Yahoo have required bulk senders to set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and Microsoft introduced similar rules for Outlook.com in 2025. Even small businesses see more mail land in spam without them. We set all three up properly as part of every migration.
We lower your DNS time-to-live settings a few days ahead, so the switch spreads quickly. Data is copied in advance, so the cutover only moves the last few hours of mail. The switch happens in the evening or at the weekend, and we run a final sync afterwards. Your old system stays available until we have checked that everything arrived.
Every new account gets multi-factor authentication, admin rights are limited to the people who need them, and old access is closed once the move is complete. We handle your data under UK GDPR, only access what the migration needs and can sign a data processing agreement. [to confirm: DPA available]
| Business size | Typical timeline |
|---|---|
| Up to 10 mailboxes | About 1 week from audit to cutover |
| 10 to 50 mailboxes | 2 to 3 weeks |
| 50+ mailboxes or Exchange servers | 3 to 6 weeks, often in stages |
[to confirm timelines]
The cutover itself usually happens in a single evening. Very large mailboxes or slow source servers can take longer to copy, which is why we start the copy early.
Email lives on your domain, and so does your website. Many problems we fix come from changing one without checking the other: a new website host that breaks email, or a migration that forgets the records the website relies on. Because we build and host websites as well, we check both. See our web development service.
Honest limit: We are not a full managed IT provider for large offices. We handle email migrations, domains, DNS and the IT that sits around your website. If you need a helpdesk for a big team, we will tell you, and can recommend one. [to confirm wording, given IT support is planned as a future service]
Real numbers only. Each result is published with the date range and the client’s permission.
Result to be confirmed
Louie, our co-founder, plans and runs every email migration himself. IT, networking and security have always been his thing. You deal with him from the audit to the day after cutover. Meet the team
Alex
Co-founder · Web development, SEO and PPC
Louie
Co-founder · IT, websites, hosting and security
FAQs
Straight answers. If yours is not here, ask us and we will reply within one working day.
It depends on the number of mailboxes, the amount of data, the source system and whether files and devices are included. After the audit we give you a fixed price.
Not with a properly planned migration. We copy everything before the switch and run a final sync afterwards, and the old system stays available until we have checked that everything arrived.
New mail keeps arriving throughout. Your team may need to sign in again on their computers and phones the next morning, and we help with that.
Very little. We will ask for admin access to the old system and your domain, and for each person to sign in to their new account on the day.
Yes, and from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace. Emails, contacts and calendars move both ways.
Yes. We can move OneDrive and SharePoint files to Google Drive, or the other way, as part of the project.
We set them up in your name, directly with Google or Microsoft, so you own the account and the billing. [to confirm]
Yes. We can set up Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 from scratch, with your domain, DNS and security configured properly.
Yes. Most migrations are done remotely, so we work with businesses across the UK and in Dubai.
Yes. We set up consistent signatures for everyone in the new system.
