New investments to accelerate your migration to Microsoft 365
Microsoft continues to power the digital transformation of customers with cutting edge, AI-enhanced productivity and collaboration tools. That's why we're excited to announce new investments to make it easier than ever to migrate your data to Microsoft 365 so you can take full advantage of these capabilities. Introducing the Slack to Teams Migration Tool When organizations explore adopting Microsoft 365, one of the first questions they ask is how they can migrate their data from their current platform to Microsoft 365. We have extensive experience and migration tools to support customers who want to move their emails, calendars, and files to Microsoft 365. But in the modern workplace, migrating chats and conversations can be just as important. That’s why we’re introducing the Slack to Teams Migration Tool from Microsoft. This tool is designed to migrate public and private channels from Slack to Teams, where your most critical conversations take place. The tool provides first class integration with Teams so migrated messages appear as if they’ve been posted directly in Teams with the original author and creation timestamp preserved. It also maintains the rich message content you’d expect, including message formatting, links and images, @-mentions, standard emojis, threaded replies, and more. File attachments are no problem as those are migrated too. And channel ownership and membership are preserved so that after the migration, participants can pick up right where they left off. The Slack to Teams Migration Tool from Microsoft has no licensing cost. Customers simply need to provide an Azure Blob Storage subscription and container to temporarily store their Slack export files while the migration is taking place. (Azure Blob Storage subscriptions have their own cost.) Once the migration is complete, the Azure Blob Storage subscription is no longer needed. This migration tool is a great option for customers interested in performing Slack migrations on their own, or as another tool for migration partners to help customers successfully transition to Microsoft 365. It's available now to all standard commercial customers worldwide. To learn more, see Introduction to the Slack to Teams Migration Tool. Future investments in the Slack to Teams Migration Tool These investments are an exciting start for this migration tool, but we’re not done yet. Over the coming year we plan to add even more features to the tool. Some of those features include: The ability to migrate group chats from Slack to Teams The ability to migrate direct messages (1-on-1 chats) from Slack to Teams The ability to migrate Slack canvas content into Microsoft Loop tabs in Teams The ability to provide an experience in Teams that will be familiar to users migrating from Slack The migration team would love to hear your feedback about any additional scenarios that are important to you. We operate preview programs for customers that want to engage closely with us to help shape the future investments in our migration tools. If you're interested in participating, please nominate yourself using this form: Microsoft 365 Migration Preview Registration New Microsoft 365 migration documentation center Migration can be an intimidating project for some, especially if you have limited experience performing migrations. Having comprehensive yet easy-to-follow documentation at your fingertips to plan and execute your migration can be the key to a smooth experience. That’s why we’ve just launched our new Microsoft 365 Migration documentation center. Here you’ll find consolidated documentation about all M365 migration scenarios. Whether it’s migration from external platforms to M365 or migrating from one M365 tenant to another, you’ll find the right documentation here. This documentation center covers the full set of features and workloads in M365, from emails, contacts, and calendars, to files, to chats and conversations. Please check out our new migration documentation center at https://aka.ms/m365migrationdocs. As you read through the articles, let us know if they were helpful to you by giving them a thumbs up or thumbs down reaction. We take your feedback seriously and will use it to make sure our documentation meets your needs. Summary We're proud to add the Slack to Teams Migration Tool alongside our other migration tools, giving customers more options to accelerate their migration to Microsoft 365. And with our new migration documentation center guiding you along the way, you'll find the migration process much less intimidating than you may have expected. Let's get migrating! Troy Starr Principal Product Manager Microsoft 365 Migration Team
