Key Needle Movers for Slack to Teams Migration Success

Prioritizing core areas, such as user list preparation, finalizing channels, and more is crucial for businesses to transfer Slack to Microsoft Teams successfully. However, many companies and their IT teams need full clarity on the needle movers that shape the success of the entire migration project.

If you or your IT team is in the migration planning stage, take actionable insights on the needle movers we have listed below in this post.

1. Finalize the Users to Migrate

Every company planning a Slack to Teams migration must conduct a thorough pre-migration assessment to determine and finalize the actual number of users and the size of data to migrate.

For example, decide if you are going to migrate all users. What about the users who have left the organization? Will their data be migrated to the same user or a different user in the target, or will they not be migrated at all?

Performing this pre-migration analysis helps to avoid transferring unnecessary data from Slack to Teams, helping you lower the migration time and cost.

2. Authenticate all User Accounts

After finalizing the number of user accounts to migrate, the next needle mover is to authenticate/validate them. Prepare a CSV mapping list of all the final user accounts and get it validated by the migration partner.

Taking this step helps your IT team ensure that there are no syntax or mapping errors in the CSV sheet, which, otherwise, can raise the risk of migration failure.

At CloudFuze, our managed migration team helps businesses of all sizes prepare and validate CSV mapping of the entire user accounts.

3. Migrate Both Direct Messages and Channels

It is only by replicating the Slack environment in Microsoft Teams that it becomes possible for businesses to make their move from Slack to Teams truly successful. And the core aspect of replicating the Slack environment in Teams is to migrate Slack channels and direct messages.

Ensuring accuracy during Slack direct messages and channel migration is equally important to retain their integrity and avoid confidential information leakage risks.

With CloudFuze, it becomes easy for your company to migrate direct messages and channels (both public and private) from Slack to Teams to avoid end-user disruption.

4. Validate the Migrated Data

To break away from the uncertainty of the migration being hit-or-miss, validating the migrated data through migration reports is crucial. It is a must for your IT team to check some of the key metrics in the reports, such as the number of user accounts migrated the start and end date of the migration, etc.

CloudFuze provides companies with extensive migration reports that offer a 360° view of the migration progress.

5. Perform Delta Migration and Validate it

Companies can ensure the complete success of their Slack migration to Teams project only if they migrate all the incremental changes. And implementing delta migration is a needle mover in updating the migrated data in Teams with all the incremental changes.

With CloudFuze, your company can perform a single or multiple delta migration to ensure no incremental change is missed.

Streamline Your Company’s Migration Roadmap

Connect with our business migration team to discuss your company’s Slack to Teams migration plan and get clarity on core areas, such as strategizing and roadmap planning.