Both Office 365 and G Suite are of great use. If there is a way to integrate G Suite with Office 365, it may show up with more unexpected usages. So, this post here will illustrate 3 ways for their integration which are integrating via MultCloud or Power Automate.
G Suite, now known as Google Workspace, is a collection of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools developed by Google. It includes apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, aimed at enhancing communication, creativity, and efficiency for businesses and individuals.
Office 365, now called Microsoft 365, is a subscription-based suite of productivity tools from Microsoft. It encompasses applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more, along with cloud services, designed to empower efficient communication, collaboration, and work across various devices.
You can make G Suite and Office 365 integration to simplify your workflow and improve work efficiency. For example, you can store and share different file types like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Google Drive. Therefore, you can access these files with ease. Or, you can edit your Office files in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides without conversion and use the special features there.
Besides, you can also connect your Office files with Gmail. You can directly open a Word file and edit it without downloading if it is attached to a Gmail email. Moreover, the G Suite Office 365 integration also covers the spreadsheets. Google offers a Macro Conversion add-on to help migrate macros from Excel (Office 365) to Sheets (G Suite) to easily record macros on Sheets without any code.
It's important to note that the extent and ease of integration may vary depending on the specific tools and services used in your organization. Proper planning and the selection of appropriate integration solutions and third-party tools can help ensure successful integration between G Suite and Office 365. So, in the next parts, we will show you how to use MultCloud and Power Automate to integrate some of the G Suite and Office 365 services.
MultCloud is a multiple-cloud management service where you can manage files and emails on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Outlook, SharePoint Online, Google Drive, Google Workspace, and Gmail together with one login, and you can add unlimited accounts of each service to it. By doing so, you do not have to switch to different websites or apps to access the scattered files.
To seamlessly make G Suite and Office 365 integration, you can use the MultCloud Cloud Sync and Email Migration functions:
✅ Cloud Sync: Real-time sync the modified or added files from Office 365 services to Google Workspace services or vice versa with 10 special sync modes.
✅ Email Migration: Migrate multiple Gmail emails to Office 365 services or Outlook emails to Google Workspace services with one click.
☑️ Schedule: Schedule the file sync or email migration task at your preferred time or frequency in a day, week, or month.
☑️ Email Filter: Batch-select the emails you want to backup to the cloud with email senders, recipients, dates, with attachment or not, or is read or not.
☑️ Cloud Sync Filter: Batch-select the files you want to sync or ignore by file extensions.
You can use Cloud Sync to sync files between any mentioned Office 365 and G Suite services. Here is an example of syncing OneDrive to Google Workspace.
Step 1: Enter the MultCloud website and create an account by clicking "Get started for free" on the MultCloud home page.
Step 2: Click "Add Cloud" and then choose the Google Workspace and OneDrive icons to add them to MultCloud.
Note: When you add Google Workspace, you can choose to add the admin account or the sub-account. If you want to access all the sub-accounts, you will first domain install the MultCloud add-on and then choose "Access Organization" in the pop-up window.
Step 3: Choose "Cloud Sync" in the left sidebar and select OneDrive and Google Workspace in the boxes. Then, switch the button to "Real Time Sync".
Step 4: Open "Options" to select other sync modes if you need them. Finally, click "Sync Now" and your OneDrive files will sync with Google Workspace constantly.
Note: If you have masses of files to sync, you can purchase a MultCloud's paid plan so that you can get more data traffic than the free 5 GB. Upgrading your plan also helps sync files with faster speed and use all the sync modes.
Email Migration backs up all your emails to the cloud as PDF files and it allows you to transfer up to 200 emails at once. Here is an example of migrating Gmail emails to OneDrive.
Step 1: Add Gmail and OneDrive to MultCloud. To add Gmail, click "Add Email" > choose the Gmail icon > log in to your Gmail account.
Step 2: Select "Email Migration" in the left bar and choose Gmail and OneDrive in the boxes. Then, open "Options" to check the migration settings and click "Migrate Now" to start the task.
Note: You can convert 50 emails into PDF files for free per month. However, if you are a premium user, you can convert unlimited emails.
To make G Suite and Microsoft 365 integration for file transfer, you can also use Power Automate. Microsoft Power Automate is used to create automated workflows and tasks across various apps and services. The defect of using Power Automate is that the templates on it are limited. Therefore, if you can’t find a proper template to use, you have to create one which is quite complex.
Since Power Automate does not offer a template that can perfectly match the G Suite and Office 365 integration requirements, this section will illustrate the steps for syncing OneDrive files to Google Drive by using it.
Step 1: Enter the Office 365 website and log in to your account.
Step 2: Click the button in the upper-left corner, select "All apps", and tap Power Automate.
Step 3: Open "Templates" in the left bar, enter "Sync OneDrive Files to Google Drive Files" in the search box, and choose the template with the same title.
Step 4: Add your OneDrive and Google Drive accounts by clicking the button at the end of the box, and click "Continue".
Step 5: Choose the folders that you want to sync from/to and tap "Create". Then the syncing task is established and files can be synced from OneDrive to Google Drive.
Both of these 2 ways can achieve Office 365 G Suite integration, but MultCloud Cloud Sync is more recommended. The reasons are shown below.
Both MultCloud and Power Automate can make the G Suite and Office 365 integration and you can choose the one that suits you most. When you sync G Suite on MultCloud, you can try other functions like using Cloud Backup to back up Google Workspace to Wasabi. MultCloud Cloud Backup can restore the files that you backed up to other clouds and you can even choose a specific version to restore if you run the backup process on MultCloud for times.
You can take advantage of MultCloud Email Migration to save Outlook emails to G Suite as PDF files. The process does not need you to export the Outlook emails and then upload them to Google Workspace, but creates an automatic transfer way.
Also, MultCloud Email Migration can do you a favor in this task. You can directly save Gmail emails to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online and make the task auto-run at your preferred frequency.
G Suite (now Google Workspace) and Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) are cloud-based productivity suites offering email, document editing, storage, and collaboration tools. G Suite includes Gmail and Google Docs, while Office 365 includes Outlook and Microsoft Office.