GMail & Outlook

[gumbygaz]

Just a hope for some advice, we've got 2 separate email domains, a .sch.uk one (Exchange Staff Email) and a .co.uk one (Staff & Student Google Accounts).

Which are separate from each other. However, now that Google Classroom is starting to take off quite a bit in the school we could do with the two email accounts linking so the teachers can get both emails in the one mailbox (Currently Outlook which is the preference).

Am I right in thinking I've got a couple options,

 

Move all Exchange email to Gmail

Forward Gmail to Exchange (Is it possible to add Gmail as an extra inbox in Outlook globally in Exchange or is this something each user would have to do?)

 

Suppose the advantage of moving the email to cloud is local server/backup/access etc all easier my way. Disadvantage, not having the comfort of what their used to using Outlook?

 

Any tips from anybody who's done this already?

 

Cheers in advance!

[FN-GM]

Why use Gmail at all? Why don't you use the same email address for both, any emails from Google Apps will be delivered to the Office 365 mailbox. That way you do not have 2 separate email systems? The Google Apps Directory Sync will allow you to sync your users email address from Active Directory and populate Google Apps profiles automatically.

 

Thats how we have it setup here.

Edited March 2, 2016 by FN-GM