For enterprise organizations, migrating files along with their permissions to a new platform can feel daunting and risk interrupting daily business operations. To help simplify this transition, we are excited to announce general availability of Google Workspace data import (advanced mode) to support large-scale file migrations from Microsoft OneDrive. Just like the other features of the data import, this is available at no additional cost.

This update allows IT teams to execute large migrations efficiently, as you can import multiple concurrent batches at a time. Data import automatically adjusts import speeds to match your Microsoft licensing tier, maximizing throughput without exceeding source quotas.

Data import provides:

• Ease of use: A turnkey, scalable cloud-native service 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.

Additionally, customers will be able to use the migration planning utility for file migrations that will help improve their change management and data migration forecasting. The migration planning utility is available to provide source data corpus details and migration timeline estimates. This offers customers no-friction discovery and data-driven planning when undertaking large scale enterprise migrations from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace.

Getting started

• Admins:
• Access data import within Google Workspace Admin console. Visit the Help Center to learn more about migrating files from an OneDrive 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: Use the advanced migration mode for OneDrive
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up the Azure application for an advanced migration

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

New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers.

What’s changing 

Google Workspace Migrate, previously announced in beta in 2019, is now generally available for select Google Workspace Editions. This first-party, on-premise product helps admins assess and plan migration projects, and confidently migrate their users and large amounts of critical content directly into Google Workspace.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why you’d use it

Google Workspace Migrate is especially beneficial for Google Workspace customers with a large number of seats, as it allows them to securely migrate large amounts of their organization’s data and setup on-premises infrastructure. Specifically, it provides assistance with:

• Assessment: Quickly scan source environments to help accurately plan for key project milestones and watch points 
• Migration: Efficiently migrate valuable data from a variety of sources (see below) 
• Track: Easily identify project progress and health with detailed aggregate and granular logging functionality 

Additionally, Google Workspace Migrate supports Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, file shares, Box migrations, legacy G Suite Business and Google Workspace environments, enabling you to: 

Quick launch summary 

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