Slack to Teams migration tool using Saketa migrator

Saketa is Happy to announce the launch of the “Slack to Teams Migration” module as the major highlight of the new version release of Saketa Migrator. The Teams Migration tool of the Saketa Migrator Version 4.0 comes with added capabilities of Slack to Teams migration along with the pre-existing Teams to Teams migration as well as SharePoint to Teams Migration

Saketa Slack to Teams Migration Tool

Microsoft Teams’ contribution to the modern workplace is widely acclaimed as the one-stop solution for all collaboration woes.

Slack on the other hand has been an industry leader among the collaboration tools for quite a long time and is also credited with being the first of its kind application that connected the organizational components in the most efficient ways possible. Back when emails were the prime mode of peer communication, Slack offered a better company-wide chatroom alternative to the organizations. And within no time did it gain its position as the most popular collaboration tool that replaced emails as the mode of communication and sharing with real-time messaging. It gave way to organized communication by channels for group discussions as well as private messages for sharing confidential information, files, and others on a single platform.

But with time, new alternatives emerge and so is the case with Slack which has a much more advanced and efficient competitor in the form of Microsoft Teams. With its amazing performance and unmatchable features, Microsoft Teams has undeniably become a modern workplace necessity along with Microsoft 365 across various industries. And as a Slack user, if you are looking for a better collaboration experience, it’s time you should seriously consider going for a Slack to Teams migration.

Why Migrate Slack to Teams?

Slack has contributed to the collaborative growth of many organizations over the years and suddenly deciding to walk away from it might seem quite vague and scary. But keeping all these hesitations aside, modernization is one of the key aspects that re-imbibes new ways of innovation and productivity in any organization.

There might be initial hesitations in investing in moving to an entirely new environment but we must put a light upon its two major positive aspects:

• Cost Saving
• Secure migration

Most enterprises have a Microsoft Office Suite license, thus making the most popular chat-based collaboration tool, Microsoft Teams available at no extra cost. This makes spending upon a one-time migration much cheaper as compared to the year-long Slack subscription.

Additionally, being closely associated with Office35, Microsoft Teams makes it quite easy to coordinate among different platforms by establishing interconnection with other Microsoft applications that Slack, being a third-party tool. cannot go for.

What’s in Store for Saketa Migrator Version 4.0 users

The new and better Saketa Migrator 4.0 aims at tackling all your Microsoft365 and Microsoft Teams migration worries without any complications. The new update of version 4.0 are –

• New Feature – Slack to Teams migration
• New Feature – Content migration option is available within the Teams migration module.
• New Feature – Supports migrating Teams conversations as HTML pages.
• New Insights Available in the SharePoint Inventory Module – Insights that deal with workflows, InfoPath forms and custom solutions.
• File permissions information is available in the File System Inventory report.
• Functional improvements in Teams to Teams migration.
• Now Saketa Migrator tool can run in the background by consuming minimal resources to perform tasks.
• General bug fixes and improvements.

Supported Features of Slack to Teams Migrator

Teams Migration

• Migrate Workspace as Team
• Migrate Channel as Team
• Migrate Admins as owners and members as members

Channel Migration:

• Channels will be migrated
• Users in Private channels will be migrated
• Files migration and its metadata migration
• Conversations migration
• Posts will be migrated as site pages

Channel Conversations:

• Messages and replies are migrated
• Mentions will be migrated
• Metadata on messages and replies will be preserved
• Links will be corrected to point destination team

Limitations

• Apps won’t be migrated
• Emojis & Reactions won’t be migrated

Saketa Migrator Salient Features

Saketa Migration tool is feature-packed to bring in the best migration experience ever. Some of its most notable features are:

• Turbo Mode: Choose your migration speed as you please. Go for a regular migration speed or utilize your Azure storage account to opt for a super-fast migration.
• Schedule Migration: Plan your migration hours according to your organization’s downtime to achieve absolute zero business disruption.
• User and Group Mappings: Automatically map the source groups and users with those at the destination with an added option of manual handling of the unresolved users too in order to conduct smooth migration without any failure due to the missing users at target.
• Pre & Post Migration Reports: Pre-migration ensures that you get an idea of all the obstacles to the migration process beforehand to be able to be prepared enough and post-migration validates the success of the migration process.
• Analytics and insights: Keep a track of the entire migration process with a detailed analytical report
• Team and Channel Copy options: Copy options to rename Teams and channels before migration, change their type and description. Choose to migrate the files, conversations and channels, or not.

Upcoming Teams Migration Capabilities

Our Teams Migration module is constantly under progressive development by our team of experts and we are committed to make it the best migration aid for you. One of the major Teams migration feature that is being worked upon by us is the File System to Teams migration module that it slated to upgrade our Microsoft Teams migrator further.

A note to our Pre-Existing users

We at Saketa have always believed in nurturing the trust of our customers to the best of our abilities and will continue to do so. And thus, we would love to extend our gratitude to all our esteemed customers with a special offering that you will surely love.

If you are one of the Pre-existing Saketa Migrator users, we are providing the Teams Migrator Module to you without any additional charges.

And for the new customers, feel free to go for the entire Saketa SharePoint Migrator that includes the Teams Migration module as well or simply opt for Saketa Teams Migrator as a separate entity.

If you haven’t tried our Saketa Migration tool yet, you might be missing out on a very convenient and seamless experience.

Try out our Saketa Migrator Free trial and then decide for yourself.

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HR Intranet can prove to be a Boon to your HR department

 HR Intranet ~ As the professional world has switched from being in the office to be in front of their laptop screens, the HR department to needs to adapt to it alike. An Intranet is a good choice to opt for.

Human Resource: The Unsung Hero ~ HR Intranet as the Saviour

HR – one of the most essential yet underrated departments in every organization. The department that maintains the internal work environment as well as brings in the best talent from various sources to enhance it! The department that keeps up with all the small and big intra-organizational responsibilities, such as employee wellness, payroll management, grievance redressal, employee engagement, workplace-policy enforcement, day to day operational management and of course, recruitment and onboarding in order to deliver the best workplace experience to each and every employee in an organization.

What poses the greater challenge is the popular belief that an HR cannot function properly unless they are directly in contact with all the employees but the present scenario keeps all the possibilities of such real-life encounters at bay and the HR department too needs to find a digital way out to keep up their usual productivity and more during these conditions as well. Here’s where an Intranet can truly proclaim itself to be a Savior.

How an HR Intranet can Benefit your HR department

Building a sense of trust and security within the organization isn’t a task as easy as it seems. Instilling belongingness and loyalty in every employees’ mind is quite a tricky task and requires crucially extra efforts when it needs to be done remotely without having the scope for organizational intermingling for months. Here’s when harnessing the collaborative powers of an intranet comes to the rescue.

As the HR department is expected to be involved with a huge amount of data and information that needs to organized as well as be passed on to the concerned employee, department or the organization as a whole, utilizing a well-designed modern SharePoint intranet can do wonders for them.

Get to know how your HR Department can benefit from an HR Intranet

1. Information Management

The HRs can use the intranet as the one-stop-solution to all the information that might be required to be stored, searched or circulated. A number of widgets such as Announcements, Birthdays, Work Anniversaries, Leave stats, Team information, Employee Directory, Organization Chart can be put to work to keep everyone updated and acknowledged alike. Quick navigation and search features of the intranet will ensure easy access to those information which otherwise would have consumed a huge amount of time, if provided on demand-basis, thus saving the precious time of both the employees and the HRs.

2. Suggestion Corner

An HR department that aligns well with the needs and expectations of the employees it the one considered to be a successful one. An HR should regularly gather feedback and suggestions from the employees on various organizational issues be it as simple as a celebration plan, an online get together, the menu preference at the office party, etc. or as formal as the preferred employee benefits policy, leave policies, travel policies etc.

An intranet can be used to gather such feedbacks across the organization with just a few clicks with a number of interactive features like forms and polls. This will not only let the HR department take up the decisions accepted and supported by the majority of the workforce but also help them make the employees enjoy a sense of ownership over the organizational decisions.

3. Community and Network Management

Be it your personal life or professional, relationships play a crucial role in our survival and success be it the relationship between a manager and an employee, between two colleagues, between board members, with investors, clients and so on. An intranet provides a great platform to nurture these relationships with better and enhanced communication.

Human Resource is the sole in charge of enhancing the organizational community, workplace culture and formal as well as informal employee networking.

An intranet can be used to maintain a proper record of birthdays, work anniversaries, event calendars, personal feats of employees, and much more. Posting event announcements, fun office jokes and jargon, event photos and videos, or organizing fun polls on the intranet can be a great help in keeping the employees engages and building up their rapport with each other.

4. Performance Management

Intranet readily can act as a quite effective as well as transparent platform for performance management.

This particular personalized section can be added to the dashboard of each employee to include documents such as JD, KRAs, etc. that can be backed up with business apps and utilities such as Idea Board, Kanban App, Project Tracker, Timesheets etc.

This section can be accessible to the employee and their reporting manager to allow them to continuously evaluate and review the performance of the employee, leading to better productivity. Appraisals can take place on the same platform as well.

5. Recruitment

An HR intranet can be a great resource to the recruiters. It can easily be used to facilitate the internal recruitment, departmental switches and referral system by making the external as well as internal vacancies known to all on the hr intranet dashboard, thus making the recruitment process quick and transparent. Employee directory embedded in the intranet itself can establish a clear departmental clarity and connectivity among the employees.

Additionally, dedicated intranet sections within the HR intranet portal can be created for each recruitment drive to connect all the interview panelists to ease the process of centralized discussions and shortlisting.

6. Training and Feedback

The pre-joining courses that the interns and trainees might need to go through before joining or in their very initial days before starting their work under someone’s mentorship can be managed and the performance evaluation can be done on the intranet by the recruiters. It can be a very convenient platform to track and monitor their learning speed and course completion accompanied by frequent feedback from the new joinee as well.

7. Onboarding and Offboarding

The onboarding process becomes extensively easy if the HR chooses to introduce the new employees to the organization with a catchy and innovative widget on the intranet, be it a flashcard, a textual welcome, an introduction video, and so on. All the company policies can be stored in a dedicated HR portal in the intranet that can be shared with the new employees on joining and can be ever accessible to every employee while keeping the accessibility permissions intact for each job profile.

Offboarding, though underrated, is a very important step to maintain a healthy relationship with the ex-employees and should be carried out with utmost care so that those bidding adieu to the organization take only the positives to their next company. Along with the usual farewell, a virtual farewell on the company intranet portal can be a great idea to make their last moments in the organization absolutely awesome.

Conclusion: HR intranet ~ Productive Human Resource Department

An appropriately chosen SharePoint intranet can enhance the performance of the Human Resource department exponentially. We have covered quite a number of utilities an Intranet can provide to HRs but being an ever-evolving idea, it can indeed provide much more. Meanwhile, How does your HR utilize the SharePoint Intranet? Let us know in the comments below.

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How migrate Microsoft Teams from one Tenant to another?

 

Microsoft Teams Migration from One Tenant to Another: Manual Vs Saketa Migrator 

Planning an MS Teams migration from one tenant to another? Let us help you out with few alternate processes to tackle all your migration worries.  

Microsoft Teams: The Digital Workplace Protagonist: Microsoft Teams loaded with an array of advanced communication and collaboration features have become the centerpiece to the vast Microsoft 365 user experience. It’s easy to use and seamlessly integrable features give it an edge over its competitors. With the importance of MS Teams growing day by day, it has become a common business demand to migrate to Microsoft Teams from all other tenant platforms to achieve a great workflow.  

Saketa SharePoint Migrator has always been a migrating organization’s best friend but what we look forward to currently is our new and powerful Microsoft Teams Migration Tool that makes your MS Teams migration experience effortlessly simple. 

Challenges of Microsoft Teams Migration 

Teams migration is quite complicated as compared to the SharePoint migration as unlike SharePoint, all the Teams data are not sorted Team-wise at particular places. Instead, they are sorted according to the type of content. So, manual migration will involve picking up each of those from different locations and assigning them to the designated Teams – A task that sounds difficult and is even more difficult when we try to execute it.  

For migrating Microsoft Teams from one tenant to another, it will be almost impossible to execute the task manually as it might include gathering data from the following sources: 

• SharePoint team site 
• Exchange team mailbox 
• Exchange mailboxes of individual users 
• OneDrive for Business of individual user 
• OneDrive organizational document library 
• Azure (using Blob storage) 
• Stream 
• Third-party storage provider 

Manual Teams Migration From one Tenant to another 

Manually migrating Teams from one Tenant to another involves a humongous amount of IT efforts and time. The lack of public APIs from Microsoft makes the automation of Teams migration almost unachievable. While there is no easy way for migrating Microsoft Teams from one office 365 tenant to another, we can devise a plan that involves systematically migrating each of the Teams components to the new Tenant and then reintegrating them into their cloned Teams.  

Teams elements to be migrated and reintegrated 

The contents of a Team aren’t sorted Team-wise in the tenant storage. Instead, they are sorted by the type of content. While this keeps the data organization excellent while maintaining Microsoft Teams, it turns out to be the worst part too when we decide to migrate them. 

Here’s a list of their element locations: 

• SharePoint Team site 

Sharepoint Teams sites store all the files and folders stored in the team document library or shared in channels. It also includes Teams external emails, its wiki page, and OneNote assets of Teams channels. 

• Exchange Team mailbox 

This location comprises of the Teams contacts, mails, group chat, and channel chat conversation history. 

• Exchange mailboxes of individual users 

Each of the individual mailboxes will contain the private one to one chats with that particular user along with conversation history and voicemails. It also comprises of the calendar meeting details. 

• OneDrive for Business of individual users 

Each user’s one drive account is connected to Teams and all the attachments exchanged in private chats, meeting chats, or call message windows are uploaded and stored in the respective user’s OneDrive account. 

• OneDrive organizational document library 

Users’ personal OneNote files along with all the details are stored here. 

• Microsoft Azure 

Images and all other types of media except GIFs that have been shared in chats are stored in the Azure account. 

• Microsoft Stream 

All the Meeting recordings are stored in Microsoft Teams for any future reference. 

• Third-party storage provider 

If your organization allows third-party storage provider, either through Teams tabs or other partner apps, the information related to them are stored directly in the systems of those 3rd party used by the partner. 

 Steps to Manual Teams Migration 

1. Replicating the Teams to be migrated by recreating them at the destination 
2. Add the required users and permissions to each Team manually 
3. Download the contents of each Team from source 
4. Update the content of each Team at the destination with the ones downloaded from the source 
5. Export each mailbox from the source and import them at the destination 

Steps to Migrate Microsoft Teams with Saketa Teams Migrator 

MS Teams migration is the need of the hour but the excessively lengthy and complicated approach required for executing it manually makes it nothing less than a nightmare. Instead of using so much of the time of the IT team executing the migration as well as that of the end-users whose communication might suffer significantly until the process is done, why not go for a simpler, quicker and more efficient automated way. Using a 3rd party Teams migration tool is a great idea to simplify the migration process while bringing in a significant reduction in downtime. 

Microsoft Teams Collaboration: Conquer all your Workplace Woes

Microsoft Teams Collaboration is a proven step to improve employee communication, productivity, and teamwork by integrating all forms of collaborative tools into one single user interface. 

MS Teams: A Modern Workplace Essential

Remote work has become an inevitable part of the Work culture and a digital workplace, making sure that all the communication and collaboration are digitalized is a must. If the employees are empowered enough to work with the latest technologies and crisis phases gracefully, the organization will surely be able enough to adopt the digital workplace for the long term. We need to invest in the latest collaboration and communication platforms with digital capabilities to work in the most challenging environment in such a way that it can be replicated for as many people as possible     

All we need to take care of are:   

1. Technology  
2. Collaboration  
3. Productivity 

If we give a deeper look into it, all of these are interdependent: Technology supports communication and collaboration, which in turn bring in productivity. 

Here’s where Microsoft Teams emerges as the modern Digital Workplace hero. It is the hub for collaboration for many organizations with chat capabilities, video conferencing, file storage and integration with many Office 365 and other third-party apps. 

Business Benefits of Microsoft Teams Collaboration 

Microsoft Teams has emerged as the most popular communication and collaboration platform. With more than 80 million daily active users, it has become the ultimate collaboration hub of the digital workplace. With its increased usage, the data involved in Teams too is taking up the form of a humongous resource, which in turn is letting it become an inseparable part of the modern work culture.   

Therefore, it’s high time that the organizations adapt to Microsoft Teams and make it their default communication app. A business opting to embrace Teams into its work-culture is sure to profusely benefit from it in terms of better connectivity which in turn will boost the inter-team transparency and thus, deliverance quality. It will be a great boost to the ease of communication as well as the quality of collaboration. If adopted and utilized wisely, Microsoft Teams might turn out to be one of the top assets to deliver great business value to your organization. 

• Your employees will be entitled to greater ease of accessibility that in turn brings in better communication  
• Reaching Out and being Virtually connected has never felt easier! You can keep your whole Team in sync by having chats, Calls, Video conferences and meeting anytime literally from any part of the world 
• Collaboration becomes a lot easier while we are able to share docs within chats, use whiteboards or discuss each other’s work in real-time using screen share feature where multiple people can work together while the conversation goes on 
• The remote workforce is empowered as they never need to feel any disadvantage due to their location. This in turn keeps them motivated and feel at home. 
• The trainees and interns can enjoy complete learning and guidance from their mentors remotely 
• Interactive features like @mention, like, react, emoji, gifs makes working fun & expressive which in turn enhances Teamwork 
• Teams is a great Replacement for emails thus speeding up communication to a great extent 

Project management  

Microsoft Teams is basically a collaboration app but it can be quite useful for Project Management, as well. Microsoft Teams can be leveraged to facilitate communications, track project milestones and organize all the project related documents in a single place. 

• Teams can be used for internal communication as well as for Coordination with vendors, partners, clients and other external users who might be involved with a particular project 
• Dedicated channels in Teams can be created that focus on some particular topic, thus keeping work items segregated 
• The best part about using Microsoft Teams is definitely the lack of location restrictions. Your Team can break the geographical barrier to bring in the best results from literally anywhere 
• Multiple device compatibility of Microsoft Teams allows access from any device that you might be using at the moment 

 3rd Party tool integration to Teams  

Microsoft Teams has great integration capabilities. Even if your prime focus is collaboration, you can always enhance the Microsoft Teams capabilities by integrating many useful third-party solutions to it that might be quite useful to customize it according to your business needs. 

• Major business solutions like azure, jeera, etc can be integrated to Teams tabs to keep all the business information at one place 
• Sharepoint/ M365 integration to Teams can add the capabilities of SharePoint to teams to create a dynamically new set of great features 
• One drive/google drive integration with Teams will ensure systematic and organized data storage 
• Built-in teams security features are good enough in filtering unauthorized users accessing the sensitive business data 
• Teams allow Centralized setting to restrict the flow of sensitive data outside the organization 

Teams as Digital Workplace  

Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration app that can be considered a major element of digital workplace experience that enhances remote work in every way possible. But do you know what can be better than Teams in a digital workplace? An entire Digital Workplace within a Team! 

• Teams has multiple tabs that can be used to integrate external apps. It will be a great idea to include all the important business apps within the Teams 
• You can set up an entire intranet inside the Teams. Teams deployable intranets such as the Saketa Intranet Suite can be kept as a tab within teams that can be used to access an entire Intranet within it 
• Business apps such as Planner, Project Tracker, Attendance management system and many more can be integrated within Teams and we need not navigate to their actual location to use them 

Teams Migration, Adoption & Governance 

With the exponentially increasing popularity of Microsoft Teams, adapting to it has become a necessary norm for any organization. And with the emergence of migration options, migrating to Teams is a great idea. But manually migrating requires writing scripts for the content to be migrated, manually creating the corresponding teams in the New destination and a lot of other steps to ensure that the elements of the source and destination are mapped properly. Along with it, adoption and governance too play a major role in ensuring it’s successful utilization. 

• Sharepoint being utilized by more than 70% companies worldwide, SharePoint to Teams Migration can be a great move to integrate the flexibility of Teams to the powerful adaptability features of SharePoint   
• Slack & Skype for Business have been the pioneer business communication apps for quite a time now.  Migrating them to Teams will ensure much greater connectivity. 
• Teams Best Practices such as taking care of Naming conventions, Channel creation, access control, setting up moderations, privacy settings etc can work wonders to give your teams a super-power to establish great professional feats.  
• Teams Governance plays a vital role in ensuring that the MS Teams platform is utilized to the best of its ability, thus amplifying collaboration and productivity. 

 

We at Saketa believe in modernization and fulfilling every need of our clients to deliver the best digital workplace experience. Our years of dedication has earned us a spectacular client base in quite a short span of time and we are glad to be a catalyzing part of their digital transformation journey.