Migrate Microsoft Teams from one Tenant to another

How migrate Microsoft Teams from one Tenant to another? Microsoft Teams Migration from One Tenant to Another: Manual Vs Saketa Migrator 

Planning an MS Teams migration from one tenant to another? Let us help you out with few alternate processes to tackle all your migration worries.  

Microsoft Teams: The Digital Workplace Protagonist: Microsoft Teams loaded with an array of advanced communication and collaboration features have become the centerpiece to the vast Microsoft 365 user experience. It’s easy to use and seamlessly integrable features give it an edge over its competitors. With the importance of MS Teams growing day by day, it has become a common business demand to migrate to Microsoft Teams from all other tenant platforms to achieve a great workflow.  

Saketa SharePoint Migrator has always been a migrating organization’s best friend but what we look forward to currently is our new and powerful Microsoft Teams Migration Tool that makes your MS Teams migration experience effortlessly simple. 

Challenges of Microsoft Teams Migration 

Teams migration is quite complicated as compared to the SharePoint migration as unlike SharePoint, all the Teams data are not sorted Team-wise at particular places. Instead, they are sorted according to the type of content. So, manual migration will involve picking up each of those from different locations and assigning them to the designated Teams – A task that sounds difficult and is even more difficult when we try to execute it.  

For migrating Microsoft Teams from one tenant to another, it will be almost impossible to execute the task manually as it might include gathering data from the following sources: 

• SharePoint team site 
• Exchange team mailbox 
• Exchange mailboxes of individual users 
• OneDrive for Business of individual user 
• OneDrive organizational document library 
• Azure (using Blob storage) 
• Stream 
• Third-party storage provider 

Manual Teams Migration From one Tenant to another 

Manually migrating Teams from one Tenant to another involves a humongous amount of IT efforts and time. The lack of public APIs from Microsoft makes the automation of Teams migration almost unachievable. While there is no easy way for migrating Microsoft Teams from one office 365 tenant to another, we can devise a plan that involves systematically migrating each of the Teams components to the new Tenant and then reintegrating them into their cloned Teams.  

Teams elements to be migrated and reintegrated 

The contents of a Team aren’t sorted Team-wise in the tenant storage. Instead, they are sorted by the type of content. While this keeps the data organization excellent while maintaining Microsoft Teams, it turns out to be the worst part too when we decide to migrate them. 

Here’s a list of their element locations: 

• SharePoint Team site 

Sharepoint Teams sites store all the files and folders stored in the team document library or shared in channels. It also includes Teams external emails, its wiki page, and OneNote assets of Teams channels. 

• Exchange Team mailbox 

This location comprises of the Teams contacts, mails, group chat, and channel chat conversation history. 

• Exchange mailboxes of individual users 

Each of the individual mailboxes will contain the private one to one chats with that particular user along with conversation history and voicemails. It also comprises of the calendar meeting details. 

• OneDrive for Business of individual users 

Each user’s one drive account is connected to Teams and all the attachments exchanged in private chats, meeting chats, or call message windows are uploaded and stored in the respective user’s OneDrive account. 

• OneDrive organizational document library 

Users’ personal OneNote files along with all the details are stored here. 

• Microsoft Azure 

Images and all other types of media except GIFs that have been shared in chats are stored in the Azure account. 

• Microsoft Stream 

All the Meeting recordings are stored in Microsoft Teams for any future reference. 

• Third-party storage provider 

If your organization allows third-party storage provider, either through Teams tabs or other partner apps, the information related to them are stored directly in the systems of those 3rd party used by the partner. 

 Steps to Manual Teams Migration 

1. Replicating the Teams to be migrated by recreating them at the destination 
2. Add the required users and permissions to each Team manually 
3. Download the contents of each Team from source 
4. Update the content of each Team at the destination with the ones downloaded from the source 
5. Export each mailbox from the source and import them at the destination