Email and domains migration playbooks

A rebrand, a new domain or a URL clean-up all mean old addresses stop being the real ones. This guide covers the redirect map, Google Search Console steps, monitoring, and moving a domain between registrars, with notes for .au domains.

Copy mailboxes from a cPanel web host into Gmail with Google's data import tool, move calendars, contacts and PST archives separately, then switch MX without losing mail.

Move mailboxes from a cPanel web host into Exchange Online with Microsoft's built-in IMAP migration, carry calendars and contacts across by hand, and switch MX without losing mail.

Every email migration ends with the same DNS changes. This runbook puts them in a safe order, with TTL planning, record-by-record checks and the rules that stop mail bouncing or landing in junk.

If you bought Microsoft 365 through GoDaddy, there are two ways to end up with a tenant you manage directly or through another partner. This guide follows what Microsoft and GoDaddy actually document, and says plainly where the documentation stops.

Use Google's built-in data import tool to copy mail from any IMAP provider into Gmail, move calendars, contacts and PST archives separately, and cut over MX without losing messages.

Move mailboxes from a web host, cPanel server, Zoho Mail or any IMAP service into Exchange Online using Microsoft's built-in IMAP migration, then switch MX without losing mail.

A domain can only be verified in one Microsoft 365 tenant at a time. This runbook shows how to release it from the source, verify it in the target and keep the window where mail has nowhere to go as short as possible.

Copy Rackspace Email mailboxes into Exchange Online with Microsoft's IMAP migration, or use the PST routes Rackspace documents, including for data from the former Hosted Exchange service.

Copy Zoho Mail mailboxes into Exchange Online with Microsoft's IMAP migration, use Zoho's own export tools for calendars, contacts and PST archives, then move your domain's mail records.

Checklist for launching a site on a new domain or URL structure without losing search traffic: URL mapping, 301 redirects, Search Console and monitoring.