Migrating Microsoft Teams to Google Chat: What You Need to Know

The Complexity of Chat Migrations

Unlike email (which is a standard protocol), chat applications are highly proprietary. Migrating from Microsoft Teams to Google Chat is a complex engineering task.

Enterprise migration tools must use the Microsoft Graph Export API to extract channel messages, direct messages, and shared files. These are then parsed and injected into Google Chat Spaces using the Google Chat API. While plain text transfers perfectly, organizations must be prepared that certain proprietary elements (like specific Teams bot interactions or complex Adaptive Cards) may not render identically in Google Chat.