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Compare & Choose the right tool for Teams Migration in Microsoft Teams
What is Microsoft Teams & use cases
Microsoft says that Skype for Business Online will not be available after July 31, 2021. Microsoft Teams is a new deal and is an essential communication platform. It helps from small businesses to big enterprises, to coordinate with their teams/groups by using chats, and rich online meetings with audio and video calling. And Teams gives us more useful features like screen sharing, and file sharing. With Teams, you can grab someone’s attention with @mention also. Further, Microsoft Teams offers more useful features.
Microsoft Teams Use cases:
- Project Management
- Marketing
- Education, etc
Microsoft Teams data stored in:
| Stored in | Data |
|---|---|
| Team’s SharePoint folder | Files that you share in a channel |
| OneDrive for Business folder | Files that you share in a private or group chat |
| Office 365 Group mailbox | Channel Chat |
| Users mailbox | 1:1 chat |
| Stream | Meeting Recording |
What is get created when you use Microsoft Teams
When you create a team, Microsoft Teams creates
- New Microsoft 365 group
- A SharePoint Online site and a document library to store team files
- An Exchange Online shared mailbox and calendar
- A OneNote notebook
- A tie-up with other Microsoft 365 apps such as Planner, Power Automate and Power BI
What are the items we need to consider when migrating Teams
Office 365 users face various situations that needs the migration of a team from one tenant to another. They would also have to migrate a team within the same tenant when the need arises.
When migrating teams, we need to consider other office 365 apps (which we discussed earlier) that relate to the teams.
So, in this case, we need to think about the tool that needs to migrate the data which we cannot do by hand.
Based on these requirements, we need to make sure that the tool is migrating the features below.
Teams
- Teams and their associated Office 365 group and group specific settings
- Teams Users (Members and Owners)
- Team specific settings (ex: Member Settings, Message Settings, Guest Settings, etc)
Channels
- Channels and channel specific settings
- Private channels and their specific settings.
- Channel Conversations (will be posted as Induvial Conversations or Html file)
- Files tab (folders, sub-folders and files).
Tabs (Apps)
- Conversations tab
- Files tab
- OneNote
- Planner (Buckets, Tasks, Labels, Attachments and Comments)
- Wiki tab
Stream
- Groups
- Stream channels and their thumbnails
- Videos
- Meeting recording
- Group Members
- Video comments
- Metadata (Name, Description, Language, Thumbnails, Subtitle, Caption)
- Video permission
- Likes and views count
- Personal videos
OneDrive:
- My Files
- Shared by me
- Shared by you
- Shared libraries
- Folder Structure
- Permission
Private chat:
- Stickers, Emojis and GIFs
- Stickers with Caption
- News, YouTube, Weather, Praise, Places, Wikipedia
- Microsoft Stream Video
- Mentions
- All Format Text
- Share Chat History date and time
- Delivery Options (Importance and Urgent)
- Files, Activity and Organization Tab Creation
Comparison of other third-party tools Vs Apps4.Pro Migration Manager
| Feature | Apps4.Pro Migration Manager | Other Third-Party Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Groups: | ||
| Office 365 group | Yes | Yes |
| Group settings | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar | Coming soon | Yes |
| Mailbox | Coming soon | Yes |
| Teams: | ||
| Teams | Yes | Yes |
| Teams settings and descriptions | Yes | Yes |
| Membership | Yes | Yes |
| Channels: | ||
| Channels and channel specific settings | Yes | Yes |
| Private channel | Yes | Yes |
| Permission | Yes | Yes |
| Conversation history: | ||
| Messages | Yes | Yes |
| Replies | Yes | Yes |
| Metadata | Yes | Yes |
| Links | Yes | Yes |
| Mentions | Yes | Yes |
| timestamps | Yes | Yes |
| Private Chat: | ||
| Stickers, Emoji and GIF | Yes | No |
| Stickers with Caption | Yes | No |
| News, YouTube, Weather, Praise, Places, Wikipedia | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Stream Video | Coming soon | No |
| Mentions | Yes | No |
| All Format Text | Yes | No |
| Share Chat History date and time | Yes | No |
| Delivery Options (Importance and Urgent) | Yes | No |
| Files, Activity and Organization Tab Creation | Yes | No |
| Tabs: | ||
| Conversations tab | Yes | Yes |
| Files tab (Excel, Word, PDF, PPT) | Yes | Yes |
| OneNote | Yes | Yes |
| Planner (Buckets, Tasks, Labels, Attachments and Comments) | Yes | Yes |
| Wiki tab | Yes | Yes |
| Website Tab | Yes | Yes |
| Stream: | ||
| Group | Yes | No |
| Stream channels and its thumbnails | Yes | No |
| Videos | Yes | No |
| Meeting recording | Yes | No |
| Group Members | Yes | No |
| Video comments | Yes | No |
| Metadata (Name, Description, Language, Thumbnails, Subtitle, Caption) | Yes | No |
| Video permission | Yes | No |
Apps4.Pro Migration Manager
Apps4.Pro Migration Manager is a proven tool and the best choice for your organization to migrate your teams within or from different tenants.
Apps4.Pro Migration Manager provides you all the features that migration needs. With this tool from a Microsoft certified professional company, you can migrate Teams, Channels, Files, Private channels, Microsoft Planner, OneNote, Wiki, Stream, OneDrive, and 1:1 Chat. All in one tool!
The system supported for migration in Apps4.pro Migration Manager:
Microsoft Teams: Migrates Teams, Channels, Private Channels, OneNote, Wiki and Planner tab
Microsoft Stream: Migrates your Stream Videos and Meeting recordings from one tenant to another tenant along with Permission, channels, metadata and video settings.
Microsoft OneDrive: Migrates your Office365 OneDrive data along with My files, shared by you, shared by me, folder structure and file/folder permission.
Microsoft Planner: Helps you make a complete migration including task comments and attachments.
APP INFO:
This App is available for 15 days FREE Trial from Edge Store
For more details visit our website
Teams Migrator:https://apps4.pro/microsoft-teams-migrator.aspx
OneDrive Migrator:https://apps4.pro/microsoft-onedrive-migration-tool.aspx
Planner Migrator: https://apps4.pro/migrate-microsoft-planner-to-different-tenant.aspx
Stream Migrator: https://apps4.pro/microsoft-stream-migration-tool.aspx
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