Microsoft Public & Private Teams Tenant to Tenant Migration

Moving Microsoft Teams from one tenant to another is a necessity but often a challenging task for businesses undergoing acquisitions, mergers, or reorganizations. During Teams to Teams migration, it is essential to seamlessly migrate chats, channels, users, and DMs from Microsoft Teams. Along with these, equal importance should be given to migrating public and private channels.

In this blog post, we have provided insights on performing Microsoft Teams tenant to tenant migration with public and private channels.

Challenges of Preserving Public & Private Channels During Teams-to-Teams Migration

Here are some of the main challenges of migrating public and private channels between Microsoft Teams:

Manual Approaches to Perform Microsoft Public & Private Teams Tenant to Tenant Migration

In Microsoft Teams, manually moving public and private channels requires careful preparation and implementation.

Below is an outline for a manual public and private channel migration between Microsoft Teams tenants:

1. Preparation & Assessment

• Auditing Current Teams: Examine the source tenant’s public and private channels. Ensure you have a clear picture of the teams and channels that require migration, and determine which channels hold essential information.
• Export Channel Data: Use the Teams PowerShell cmdlet to export team configurations, channel data, and message history for public channels. Since private channels have more limited permissions, export individual settings and user access data.
• Backup Data: For compliance reasons, ensure you have copies of your chat histories and backup any critical data, such as files linked to Public and Private Teams channels hosted in OneDrive or SharePoint.

2. Recreate Channels in the Destination Tenant

• Create Equivalent Teams: Manually recreate the channels in the destination tenant. Ensure that the structures of the public and private channels are replicated appropriately.
• Recreate Private Channels: When you create private channels, only specific users can access them. Using the original access rights, manually assign people to private channels.
• Configure Channel Parameters: Ensure every public and private channel has the same parameters as the original Teams environment, including name conventions and description. Channel-specific settings and notification preferences must be manually copied across the destination Teams account.

3. Manually Reassign Channel Permissions

• Assign Owners and Members: Manually reassign owners and members to the original roles in the source tenant on both public and private channels.
• External Users: Ensure they have the appropriate permissions before manually inviting external users from any public or private channels to join the new teams and channels.

4. Testing and Validation

• Verify Channel Access: Check across the channels to see if the right permissions have been provided to access public and private
• Test Communication Flow: After the migration, confirm that public and private channel interactions are operating as intended.

The manual approach of Microsoft Teams tenant to tenant migration of public and private channels can be fine for very small amount of data volume.

But it is best to go for an advanced Microsoft Teams migration tool when you have high-volume data, complex data structures, or in a deadline to perform a fast and reliable Microsoft cross tenant migration.

Why Partner with CloudFuze to Perform Microsoft Public & Private Teams Tenant to Tenant Migration?

We are a Microsoft Gold Partner offering enterprises with seamless Teams to Teams migration that ensures full replication of the source cloud (Teams) in your destination cloud (Teams).

You can securely migrate chats, channels, users, direct messages, chat history, metadata, and more with our enterprise-grade tenant to tenant migration tool.

A quick overview of our migration tool:

Teams-to-Teams Features Supported by our Migration Tool

What Do Customers Say About Us?

As a reliable cloud migration solutions provider, we have helped some of the top companies to seamlessly perform smooth transfers between Microsoft 365 tenants.

Here is a Gartner review from one of our customers:

Ensure Seamless Microsoft Teams Tenant to Tenant Migration with CloudFuze

With CloudFuze as your Teams to Teams migration partner, you can transfer all your public and private teams including chats, users, DMs, and more without any hassle during your Microsoft Teams tenant to tenant migration.

Book a free and no-obligation demo of our Teams to Teams migration tool today!

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to migrate Teams from one tenant to another?

If you have a small set of data to migrate, you can transfer Microsoft Teams from one tenant to another by manually recreating Teams and Channels, transfer files via OneDrive or SharePoint, and reassign permissions.

For high-volume Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant migration, you can use a one-stop migration solution provider like CloudFuze while preserving rich metadata and permissions with external collaborators.

2. How long does a tenant to tenant migration take?

A tenant-to-tenant migration can take a few days, a few weeks, or even months. Few factors that cause time consumption during tenant-to-tenant migration include: the size of data being migrated, the complexity of the tenant environments, network bandwidth, and the chosen migration method.

3. What is Microsoft Teams migration?

Moving an organization’s Teams data, such as files, channels, and chats, from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another is known as Microsoft Teams migration. You can perform accurate and secure Teams to Teams migration through our Microsoft Teams migration tool .