How to Use Microsoft Teams Like Slack? Post-Migration Tips

Many organizations switch from Slack to Microsoft Teams for various reasons. While both platforms share feature similarities, adapting to the new interface and functionalities may be challenging for new users. In this article, you will learn how to use Microsoft Teams like Slack after your shift to Teams.

What Is Microsoft Teams and How Does It Differ from Slack?

Microsoft Teams is the leading application used by enterprises and companies worldwide. With Teams, you can collaborate in real time, hold meetings, and share files and apps seamlessly in a secure environment.

As per latest November 2025 update, you can now use Copilot in Teams to generate messages, get insights from chat, channel history, and calendar content. This feature is available for users holding a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

While Slack plans start with Basic AI to enterprise-grade AI for an enterprise plan, Teams tops the arena with its Copilot capabilities.

What Metrics Can Be Used to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Microsoft Teams Compared to Slack?

1. Cost-Effectiveness

If budget is a significant factor, Teams provides a number of notable benefits when compared with Slack.

Here’s a glimpse of Slack’s plans and pricing:

Image source: Slack

Here’s a look at Microsoft Teams’ plans and pricing:

Image source: Microsoft Teams

For a detailed comparison between each plan of Slack and Teams, we recommend checking their official pricing pages:

• Slack Pricing page – Click here
• Teams Pricing page – Click here

Note that the pricing ranges under Slack and Teams are as per December 2025 data. They are applicable only when you take an annual subscription. Prices vary with plans if you aren’t taking an annual subscription.

2. Application Integration

Slack makes app integration easier with several applications:

• Project management: Businesses can connect Slack with project management tools like Asana, Miro, Jira to update and manage projects.
• Customer support: Businesses can integrate customer support apps like Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk, etc., to manage tickets and communicate directly through Slack.
• CRM systems: You can link Slack with CRM platforms such as Salesforce Sales Cloud, HubSpot, and ZoomInfo.
• File management: You can use services like Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox for easy file access and sharing, along with Slack
• Developer tools: You can connect GitHub, GitLab, PagerDuty, and AWS Chatbot to track directly from Slack.

For more details, you can check out the official Slack page for more information.

Businesses can integrate various apps with Teams, such as:

• Standalone apps: Refers to a single page/large application.
• Collaboration apps: Apps built for social and collaborative features inherent to Teams.
• Microsoft SharePoint: A SharePoint page you want to surface in Teams.

For more details, you can check out the official page for more information.

3. Customer Support Access

Microsoft Teams comes with anytime phone and web support. You get ongoing technical support when it comes to seamless customer support.

There is also provision to self-help options for handling issues. Additional help is available including live chat with a Microsoft specialist.

Customer support in Slack is as follows:

• Slack Free plan – Support NA
• Slack Pro plan – 24/7 support
• Slack Business+ plan – 24/7 support with 4-hr. first response time
• Slack Enterprise+ plan – 24/7 support with 4-hr. first response time

In overall, Microsoft Teams excels in large, structured environments. Having all features into consideration, take the shift to Teams for your workplace.

What Common Challenges Do Users Face When Switching from Slack to Microsoft Teams?

Challenges you can face when switching from Slack to Microsoft Teams includes:

• Migrating Slacks messages, channels etc. without any data loss
• Transferring Slack file features such as timestamps, embedded links etc. Accurately
• Overcoming file structure differences
• Transferring incremental changes

Advanced migration tools such as CloudFuze Migrate help you overcome business challenges when switching to Teams from Slack.

1. Explore the New Interface

Explore the new Microsoft Teams interface with your team members. You can modify Teams’ theme settings (Light, Dark, and High Contrast) to improve user experience. Initially, your team can find it hard to use the new interface.

Give enough time to teams in adapting to the new Teams environment setup; You can conduct workshops and give hands-on training to teach them about salient features in Microsoft Teams.

2. Know the Message Formats

Teams enables direct messaging and group chats. Teams provide message style options, such as bold, italicize, underline, bullet points, highlighting, font size, lists and more.

You can edit, pin, forward, save, and respond to messages on Teams. [Note: Threads in Microsoft Teams can’t be disabled. Use threads for discussions and mark important messages by pinning them for easy access].
Teams help you have engaging conversations with built-in support for emojis, GIFs, and stickers. In a single search, you can get the perfect emoji for your discussions.

Also, you can react to messages with a variety of emojis. Gone are the days when you can use only a standard “like,” especially in busy chat threads. You can now react to messages as per any of your preferred custom emojis.

The screenshot below shows the provision to now use different emojis in Teams.

Additionally, you can mark messages as pinned reminders. This helps you stay on top of tasks without forgetting any necessary tasks.

By leveraging the best chat features in Teams, you can keep conversations engaging, just as you did in Slack.

3. Understand the Channel Structure

In Teams, channels serve as a discussion space for topics, projects, or teams, like Slack’s channels. The only difference is that several channels can be created under a single Team. Make sure to maintain proper naming and descriptions to maintain clarity and for easier channel identification.
Few best practices followed in Teams in managing Channels are:

• Channels are organized alphabetically in default. Note that you cannot change the order.
• Users can always have visibility of relevant and most used channels.
• Users can hide channels that are not important for their daily work.
• Shared files are stored in the channel.
• The notes and recordings are attached to the meeting on the channel.
• Users can name channels according to their preferences. You can name them for easier identification.
• Put apps in tabs at the top of the channels.

4. Use In-built App Integrations

Teams also provide integrations with important apps and services. You can explore the Microsoft App Store to find and install apps.

Like Slack, Teams do not come up with a task management feature. The “Actions” tool lets you create and assign tasks. It may be familiar to Slack users, but it usually depends on third-party integrations like Trello for full operation.

You can create and manage team tasks in Teams by using the “Planner” add-on. Use built-in integrations to personalize Microsoft Teams to meet your business workflow requirements.

5. Tabs for Integration

Teams allows you to add tabs to channels. You can access files, apps, and more. You can directly integrate third-party tools into your channels with Teams.

Teams allow you to integrate with popular services, like Zoom, Trello, Asana, Copilot, etc. For more information, check out here. You can integrate around 2756 applications with Teams.

6. Leverage Collaboration Tools

Teams allow you to collaborate on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. You can have everything under control in one location, unlike Slack, which needs you to download and re-upload files for editing.

Schedule and join meetings directly from Teams, share and co-author documents in real-time and use the whiteboard feature for brainstorming sessions. Without switching between multiple tabs, this integrated method guarantees that your team remains in sync and optimizes your workflow.
Teams provides provision for document sharing, real-time co-authoring, and video conferencing. These splendid features help you collaborate effectively with team members, just as you do in Slack.

Also, Teams provide seamless integration with Office 365 files. You can share documents directly in your workspace and collaborate in real time. Teams let you edit documents collaboratively, keeping everything up to date and in one place.

7. Provide Regular Training and Support

When you are moving from Slack to Microsoft Teams, it might take time for your team members to get used to it. Provide training sessions or resources to help them navigate the new platform effectively. Offer continuous support and collect feedback to address any challenges or concerns they may find while using the new Teams environment.

Both Microsoft Teams and Slack offer help centers, user chatbots, and community forums. But Microsoft Teams provides premium customers with 24/7 phone and online support.

Both Slack and Teams offer extensive customer support. However, Teams goes a step further. Microsoft offers direct 24/7 phone and web support for paid users.

Take proactive training sessions with support resources. Encourage the learning curve and prepare teams for the new Teams environment.

Make sure that everyone on your team is aware of the support facilities. You can facilitate the learning curve and position your team for success in your new collaborative setting by combining proactive training with easily accessible support materials.

Check Out Our Slack to Teams Migration Tool Here:

CloudFuze’s Real World Case Study – Migration of Slack Channels to Teams

Litera had to transfer Slack to Teams with 200+ channels and around a million messages. They wanted to migrate in a short time period. CloudFuze Migrate helped them migrate data along with important metadata such as emojis, replies, and @mentions.

We helped them migrate within a week. We ensured zero downtime and complete replication. Check out the case study in detail here.

What Do Customers Say About Us?

We have an impressive rating of 4.7/5 stars in Gartner Peer Insights Review. We at CloudFuze, have helped a lot of renowned companies seamlessly perform cloud migration. Here is a March 2025 Gartner review from one of our customers who migrated from Slack to Teams. As per the review, the customer used our migration solution to move to Teams successfully. They praised us for our helpful teams and expertise, knowledgeable, and friendly approach during the migration.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why migrate from Slack to Teams?

Businesses tend to migrate from Slack to Teams for several reasons. Reasons could be for better business collaboration, Microsoft 365 integrations, and preference for a centralized platform, etc. CloudFuze’s advanced migration tool helps you securely migrate data, metadata to Teams with complete accuracy and replication.

2. Does Teams have an AI Bot?

The AI chatbot template showcases a bot app. It responds to user queries and allows users to interact with the AI bot in Microsoft Teams. The teams’ AI library is used to build the app template. For more information, check out the official page here.

3. Why are companies moving from Slack to Teams?

Business tends to migrate from Slack to Teams for the following reasons:

• Integrate with Microsoft 365 cloud suite
• Enhance enterprise-grade security
• Scalability and cost-cutting reasons