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We need to kill a team but keep the messages
Hi. A member of staff has created a FREE Teams setup and invited all the troops to join, all using their company email addresses. So they did, and have lots of stuff in conversations. We are ...
You should be able to upgrade your Teams Free to become a regular tenant, and so keep all content intact. If you are moving to an entirely next tenant then it's going to be tough, currently there is no data migration api for Teams.
Third parties like ShareGate and a few others do the best they can, recreating Teams and recreating messages from a system account, but it's not the same. I've no idea if they would be able to use Teams Free as a source, it might be enough different in the SharePoint config to make it impossible.
Personal opinion I would download all their file and add them for them, but tell them to start fresh with messages, planners etc.