Import Meta Workplace to Viva Engage with Timestamps Intact
With Meta Workplace shutdown scheduled on June 1, 2026, enterprises are looking for alternatives that ensure smooth communication and effective transition.
Businesses plan to perform migration from Meta Workplace to Viva Engage to embrace the Microsoft 365 Workspace ecosystem. Transferring data from Facebook Workplace along with metadata such as timestamps is essential to ensure a successful Meta Workplace to Microsoft Viva Engage migration.
This blog post provides insights on how to import Meta Workplace to Viva Engage with timestamps intact.
Why is Maintaining Timestamps Intact Essential?
When you move from Meta Workplace to Viva Engage for consolidation, it is essential to transfer timestamps, including original postdates, and file upload dates as they are key references for:
- Maintaining conversation timeline and context
- Supporting compliance audits and legal analysis
- Maintaining project schedules and decision-making records
- Building employee trust during and after migration
Posts and chats that appear “new” after migration without their original dates can lead to misunderstanding, regulatory issues, and operational gaps. So, maintaining timestamps intact is necessary during Meta Workplace to Viva Engage migration.
Challenges in Migrating Meta Workplace to Viva with Timestamps Manually
Manual approaches often lack capabilities to preserve timestamps owing to the challenges such as:
- API limitations which make it challenging to transfer Meta Workplace’s timestamp fields to the Viva Engage schema
- Data corruption can lead to the loss of metadata during bulk transfers
- Platform differences in Meta Workplace and Viva Engage’s organized environment against
At CloudFuze, our migration team helps you seamlessly migrate Meta Workplace to Viva Engage by overcoming the shortcomings of the manual approach.
Manual Approach vs. CloudFuze Migration
| Feature | Manual Migration | With CloudFuze |
|---|---|---|
| Timestamp Accuracy | High risk of loss | 100% accurate preservation |
| Attachments | Can get corrupted | Can accurately migrate attachment files |
| Groups | Risk of loss | Can transfer both public and private groups with accuracy |
| Security Compliance | Difficult to comply with | Industry-standard compliance with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR |
Why to Partner with CloudFuze for Preserving Timestamps
CloudFuze provides enterprises with advanced functionalities for Meta Workplace migration, such as timestamps, memberships, message history, posts, comments, reactions, user accounts and roles, with access levels.
When planning to migrate from Meta Workplace to Viva Engage, it’s a good step to go for managed migration service providers like CloudFuze if your company has TBs and PBs of data in form of attachments.
You can transfer groups both public and private with accuracy and no data loss.
| Timestamp Migration Capabilities | CloudFuze Tool |
|---|---|
| One-time and Delta Migration | ✔ |
| Modification of Timestamp for Groups | ✔ |
| Filtering Time Period to Migrate Channels for e.g. from last 18 months, or last 3 years | ✔ |
| Filtering Time Period to Migrate DMs for e.g. from last 18 months, or last 3 years | ✔ |
| Modification of Timestamp for Direct Messages | ✔ |
| Selecting Time Period to Migrate DMs for e.g. from last 18 months, or last 3 years | ✔ |
| Selecting Time Period to Migrate Channels for e.g. from last 18 months, or last 3 years | ✔ |
Here are screenshots of timestamps migration done using our migration solution:
Source: Meta Workplace
Destination: Viva Engage
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