Introducing data import for Microsoft Teams: An easier, faster, and higher-fidelity migration to Google Workspace

For enterprise organizations, migrating communication history and collaboration channels to a new platform can feel daunting and risk interrupting daily business operations. To make this transition smoother, we are excited to announce that migrating chat data from Microsoft Teams to Google Workspace for large scale workloads is now generally available in data import. Just like the other features of the Data Import tool, this is available at  zero tool cost.

This enhancement builds on our existing data import capabilities, allowing admins to easily copy channel messages, group chats, and direct conversations from Teams to Workspace at no additional tool or infrastructure costs.

Data import for Teams offers:

• Ease of use: A turnkey, scalable cloud-native solution that can be accessed and used directly from the admin console.
• Quicker speeds and accuracy: Finish importing data sooner with faster migration speeds from parallelization and improved algorithms.
• No additional cost to use: No additional infrastructure costs during migration or licensing costs for third-party data migration tools.
• High fidelity: Both Teams channels as well as private chat messages (i.e. 1:1 and group messages) are imported.

Additionally, the migration planning utility now supports Teams to help customers improve their change management and data migration forecasting. The migration planning utility is available to provide migration timeline estimates and organize user data into speed-optimized batches. This offers customers simplified discovery and data-driven planning when undertaking large scale enterprise migrations from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace.

Getting started

• Admins:
• Access data import within Workspace Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about migrating channels and chats from a Teams account to Google Workspace via data import (advanced mode). You must be a Workspace super admin to perform a migration.
• Click here to access the migration planner tool.
• End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Other Editions: Frontline Starter, Standard, and Plus; Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofit

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: What's imported from Teams?
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Use the advanced data import method for Teams
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up an Azure application for Teams