Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration
Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 is the migration we run most often, and it is rarely just an email move. Mail and calendars are the easy part; the real work is Drive content — shared drives with years of accumulated permissions, orphaned files owned by departed staff, and folder structures that grew organically. Our discovery pass inventories all of it before the wave plan is written, so nothing surfaces as a surprise during cutover week.
Permissions are mapped, not flattened. When a shared drive becomes a SharePoint site, the people who could see a folder before can see it after — and the people who should never have had access lose it, because migration is the one moment an organization can fix years of permission drift for free. Staff get short training recordings keyed to what actually changed for them, which is why our adoption holds after the consultants leave.
The cutover itself follows the same method as every migration we run. The destination tenant is hardened first — Entra ID conditional access, Intune enrollment, and Defender baselines — then mail, calendars, and Drive content move in staged waves, each with a rollback checkpoint and same-day verification. This is how Volunteers of America Western Washington moved off Google Workspace and on-prem file servers to a cloud-only Microsoft 365 estate.
Tenant-to-tenant migration
Mergers, affiliations, and restructures leave organizations running two Microsoft 365 tenants — two identity systems, two security baselines, double the licensing overhead. A tenant-to-tenant migration consolidates them: it moves mailboxes, OneDrive content, SharePoint sites, and Teams into a single governed tenant, with the destination hardened before the first account lands.
The order of operations matters: identity first, then devices, then content. Conditional access and Intune enrollment go live in the destination tenant before mailboxes move, so there is never a window where migrated accounts sit outside your security posture. Every wave has a rollback checkpoint and same-day verification against the source.
Office 365 migration services for nonprofits and regulated teams
Most of our migrations are for nonprofits, human services organizations, and regulated SMBs — teams where a migration has to survive an auditor's questions afterwards. That changes how we work: privileged access is documented as it is created, security baselines are evidence-ready from day one, and we review your Microsoft nonprofit licensing and grant eligibility during discovery so you are not overpaying for the licenses the migration lands on.
Query Minds is headquartered in Sacramento, California, and delivers migrations remotely for organizations across the United States. Our largest migration to date moved 800+ staff and volunteers at Volunteers of America Western Washington from Google Workspace and on-prem file servers to a cloud-only Microsoft 365 estate — with conditional access enforced by default and onboarding time cut from ten days to two.
