What is the best practice for moving 5,000 files between Teams? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“In need of help…I am in charge of taking all of our documents from one Teams account to another. What is the easiest way to do this ? We are talking no less than 5,000 files. Everything was saved under one channel.”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanetÂ
- Joy Apple, MVPÂ @JoyOfSharePoint
- Hal Hostetler, MVPÂ Â @TVWizard
Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:
- You can use the native Move features in Teams to move your content from one team to another.
- OOTB there is no way to migrate a team *in its entirety* to another team, but there are multiple strategies you can leverage:
- Have team owners or users manually move their content/files to an existing (new) team using the native move feature.
- Create a new team using the existing team as a template, which recreates (most of) the team structure, then manually move your content.
- As we discuss in the video, you can leverage a 3rd party tool to more easily identify, organize, and migrate/move your content between teams.
- A quick video by Szymon Bochniak that illustrates how to use a team as a template to create a new site, then use the copy functions in SharePoint to move your content: How to migrate Microsoft Teams team or channel [https://youtu.be/LgR2qP2gZbA]
- And here’s the related Microsoft Support documentation: Create a team from an existing team in Microsoft Teams [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-from-an-existing-team-in-microsoft-teams-f41a759b-3101-4af6-93bd-6aba0e5d7635]
- Depending on the volume of content to be moved, we recommend a 3rd party tool, such as:
