Migrating chat messages from Teams using the new data migration service is currently in beta and subject to the Pre-General Availability Offerings Terms in the Google Workspace Service Specific Terms.
Chat migration for the new data migration service copies and migrates chat messages from channels in Microsoft Teams to Google Workspace. Chat migration doesn’t delete or modify existing Google Chat spaces or messages, but not all features in Teams are supported. Review the following table for details.
Migrated features & data
| Feature in Teams | Feature in Google Workspace & monitoring points |
|---|---|
| Channel | Space |
| Channel manager or owner |
Space manager If there are multiple managers or owners for a team, only one becomes the space manager in Google Workspace. The other managers and owners become regular space members. |
| Channel name |
Space name After a migration, the space name is the team name and channel name separated by a hyphen. For example, if the channel and team name are General |
| Plain text Bold Italics Strikethrough Quoted text Paragraph spacing Hyperlinks |
Supported
Underlining and rich text formatting is not supported. |
| Emojis | Supported (custom emojis are not supported) |
| GIFs | Show as a hyperlink to the GIF source |
| SharePoint links |
|
| Channel types | All types migrate as a restricted space.
You can change this setting after a migration. For details, go to Set up space access for Chat. |
| Mentions | Migrate as plain text |
| Ordered lists | Migrate as unordered lists |
What's not migrated?
- One-on-one chat messages
- Bot messages (displays as the name of the bot)
- Chat messages where a single user chats with multiple users
- Underlining and rich text formatting
- Tables (display as Missing_Table in Google Workspace)
- File attachments (a Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint item or an item uploaded from a user's computer)
- Pasted pictures and stickers
- Code snippets (display as Missing_Code_Snippet in Google Workspace)
- Streams, praise, and approvals
- Chat messages to users outside of your organization or from former employees
- Information displayed in a message card
- Nested lists
- Custom emojis
- Message threads that are longer than 500 messages (for long threads, only 500 replies migrate)
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