Migrate Slack to Google Chat With Chat History and Memberships
When it comes to migrating from Slack to Google Chat, ensuring the chat history and Slack channel memberships remain intact after the migration is undoubtedly one of the biggest priorities for business of any size. But how to preserve the entire chat history without disrupting their time-based sequences? And more importantly, how to preserve the memberships of both public and private channels?
Let’s delve into the approaches that can help your company and team overcome these core challenges, which will help replicate the Slack environment in Google Chat:
- Migrate Group and Direct Messages of All Users
To get started, it is important to migrate messages in groups/channels as well as one-to-one messages (direct messages). Ideally, you would want to migrate all the group and direct messages when moving from Slack to Google Chat. However, if you feel there are several channels/groups that are no longer needed, you can skip them.
To keep the sequence and metadata of the messages intact post-migration, it is best to partner with a migration vendor like CloudFuze. Their tool can migrate Slack direct messages to Google Chat with 100% accuracy. CloudFuze’s chat migration tool can also help your team migrate messages of all public and private Slack channels while preserving their metadata.
2. Preserve Message Threads
If you would like the end-users (employees) to visit older chat messages, including person, date, and time post-migration, your IT team can retain them in the destination cloud. This is possible by preserving the threads of all the messages, including group and direct messages, that you plan to migrate from Slack to Google Chat.
When transferring Slack message threads to Google Chat, your team must keep the sequence of the messages intact, ensuring to maintain the same pattern and order of the messages at the destination cloud (Google Chat). As a result, your team can trace back to previous messages whenever necessary.
3. Migrate Message Attachments
As part of retaining the chat history when migrating from Slack to Google Chat, migrating the attachments in messages is equally important. Similar to other types of features and metadata, attachments are integral to all messages, especially for user collaboration. Check the scope of migrating attachments with your migration vendor and add them to the scope of work.
4. Migrate Channels and Members
Public and private channels regularly store vital information, documents, and attachments that are often used for reference purposes. Therefore, make sure to migrate channels from Slack to Google Chat spaces while preserving their memberships.
Streamline Your Company’s Slack to Google Chat Migration
Partnering with a vetted migration solutions provider, in most cases, helps streamline the entire transition without risking security compromises and disruptions in ongoing operations.
With industry-leading migration vendors like CloudFuze, you can align the migration for your company’s use case and ensure complete success. You can check with their team and learn how their solutions may help you achieve your company’s migration goals.
