Connect Microsoft 365 to Gmail

Applies To
Office 365

To migrate Gmail mailboxes successfully, Microsoft 365 needs to connect and communicate with Gmail. To do this, Microsoft 365 uses a migration endpoint. Migration endpoint is a technical term that describes the settings that are used to create the connection so you can migrate the mailboxes. You create the migration endpoint in this task.

  1. Go to the Exchange admin center.
  2. In the Exchange admin center, go to Recipients>Migration>More>Migration endpoints.
  3. Choose New to create a new migration endpoint.
  4. On the Select the migration endpoint type page, choose IMAP.
  5. On the IMAP migration configuration page, set IMAP server to imap.gmail.comand and keep the default settings the same.
  6. Choose Next. The migration service uses the settings to test the connection to Gmail system. If the connection works, the Enter general information page opens.
  7. On the Enter general information page, type a Migration endpoint name—for example,Test5-endpoint. Leave the other two boxes blank to use the default values.
  8. Choose New to create the migration endpoint.