What’s changing

Beginning today, we’re expanding our data migration experience to include the ability for Google Workspace admins to migrate conversations  from channels in Microsoft Teams to spaces in Google Chat, making it easier for organizations to onboard and deploy Chat. 

This can be done within the Admin console in a few steps:

• First, connect to your Microsoft account.
• Then, upload a CSV of the teams from where you want to migrate the messages. You can specify the source to destination identity mapping by uploading a CSV of the email ID’s from source to target.
• You can only migrate data to accounts of existing users with a user license and the Google Chat service turned on. Visit our Help Center for more details.
• Next, you’ll enter the starting date for messages to be migrated from Teams. Then you can begin your data migration. 
• Finally, you’ll complete the migration by making migrated spaces, messages and related conversation data available to Google Workspace users (see our Help Center article for specific details on supported data types).

When a migration starts, the UI displays a visual report that breaks down tasks with individual progress bars for tasks that are successfully completed, skipped, failed or have warnings.

The final step to complete the migration is to roll out spaces, making migrated spaces and their content available to users.

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