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Originally Posted by sworkhard
But if you already have a name@domain.com address that your using with google services (but not gmail), and you point your mx records for domain.com to google apps, and then create name@domain.com as an email address in google apps, does the old google (non gmail) account merge with the new google apps account? I think it does as I seem to recall a message notifying the user that their account had been merged in that situation when I setup google apps for someone once, but I'm not 100% sure. |
It does, but it was hella messy in my experience, and didn't bring over everything - it mainly seemed to be able to carry over my YouTube setup, but not Google+.
In the end, I said to heck with it - renamed my @domain.com Google account (which didn't have a GMail address associated with it) to an @gmail.com account, proceeded with the Google Apps setup, and I'll just re-create my G+ setup. I didn't follow that many people on G+ anyways, and only ran one community, so it won't be that bad to migrate across manually.
I had some other truly weird issues with Chrome and my pre-Apps profile (Chrome becomes a managed entity via Google Apps), such as all links showing as previously followed, my bookmarks toolbar disappearing in a puff-of-smoke animation (on the Mac, not sure what it does on a PC) and resyncing on every launch, that lead my to nuke and reinstall Chrome, but its all working nicely now.
Regardless, the family accounts are on Google Apps now, and I'll be able to retire the Exchange server at home - it was a bit eye opening doing the math and realizing that the home server was 10-15% of the monthly power bill, in exchange for a service that was less reliable overall.
