Slack to Teams Migration Guide – Move on in 5 easy steps

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With years of experience moving numerous organizations from Slack to Teams, and having a deep understanding of the Slack and MS Teams environment, we make your migration process a seamless one. We are the only Enterprise-ready Slack to Teams migration tool in the market available for complete migration with increased user adoption.   

Here are 5 easy and quick steps in our migration process that makes your migration simple yet effective.  

1. Analysis of Slack plans, workspaces and Teams accounts

We begin by asking you some questions about your existing Slack plans and the way your organization uses them. With our questions, we’d also want to know how far you’ve gone through in convincing your organization for rolling out Teams. This will give us a high-level understanding of your requirement before we proceed further.  

2. AVAMIGRATRON Slack Inventory Assessment process

We understand that Slack encourages a lot of sprawls. Numerous Channels and conversations get initiated that are for temporary use only resulting in a very complicated Slack workspace. Migration to Microsoft Teams will be a great opportunity for your business to have a clean, fresh, and new start for your organization. With this Slack Inventory Assessment process, our main goal would be to ensure that all of the sprawl that you have in Slack does not get migrated to Teams.  

In this, we’d get the details of the Users list along with roles and channel types – whether it is a Public or Private or Internal shared or External shared Channel, Direct Messages, and App Integration list. This will help you segregate and filter the ones you need to migrate and delete or archive the ones that are redundant for your business. 

Our Inventory process is tightly coupled with our planning with Teams Governance.  

3. Migration planning – The most important of all! 

For this, we sit down with your organization’s key stakeholders, to understand and know the priority Users groups. Then we check all the associated channels that these important Users are in. And then we plan for batch migration where we move these groups first from Slack to Teams.  

The channels are grouped, and the users/members are mapped. Here, the planning of migration plays an important role because governance of using/accessing MS Teams channels should be assigned specifically. 

4. Successful migration

After all is done, we cross-check and verify if your data has migrated successfully in Teams. Having a strong team and a well-established process in place is what makes us stand out.  Slack usually has a strong cultural foothold in organizations and hence, we do not just move your data from Slack to Teams but we also ensure that there’s a complete user adoption when you are moving to the new platform.  

5. Integrations and Add On

When the planning and migration are done, it is important to have the integrations as well ready, to go live. Identifying your existing app integration in Slack will help us to know your requirement clearly. We’d have to find whether the app exists in Teams and if not, create an app and integrate using custom app development or with webhook integration. Custom bot deployments in MS Teams can help you automate and simplify your team’s tasks and with tab customizations, you can customize the tabs based on your requirement and preferences.  

The migration of app integration from Slack to Teams will streamline your workflows, and reduce the time you spend on managing the projects and tasks. Integration and configuration along with the governance of using the MS Teams Apps are very important for your business.  

When you have the right support for migrating your enterprise from Slack to Teams with a team who knows the inside out of Slack architecture and MS Teams architecture, migration and user adoption becomes a cakewalk for everyone in the organization. Proper planning, configuration, and deployment of all the Apps while migrating from Slack to Teams workspace, will help your organization propel its growth to new heights.