Copying your emails from Google Apps custom domain to Outlook.com custom domain

For those who decided to leave Google Apps free and head towards Outlook.com free service, this article is intended to help you migrate your old emails from your Google Apps account to your Outlook.com account.

Why is this needed?

Simple, Outlook, webmail, and Windows 8 app do not let you copy your emails from one service to another.

Microsoft provides a service to copy emails from Gmail to Outlook.com if you use their default domains (@gmail.com and @outlook.com for example); but not if you use custom domain names (@yourdomain.com).

Before you get started

I am assuming that you have already set up your email custom domain in Outlook.com and have access to both email accounts.  I may throw another article together soon for how to get started with your personal domain on Outlook.com.

Here's how to do it: