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Copy a team Coming soon

Team, channels, people, files

Coming soon. This tool is built and shows on its menu, but it does not open in a released build yet. This page describes it as it will ship.

Coming soon. Copy a Microsoft Team to another tenant, or within one tenant: the team, its standard and private channels, its owners and members, and each channel's files. Posts, chats and tabs are not copied in this first release.

Makes changes. Coming soon. When it is released it creates teams, channels and memberships at the destination and copies files into them. It never changes or deletes anything at the source.
On this page What it does How it runs What it will not do

What it does

  • Which teams to copy, picked from the source tenant's teams, with the name each one gets at the destination.
  • Who each owner and member becomes at the destination, mapped before anything runs. On a copy within one tenant, people keep their own accounts.
  • What will be skipped and why, listed before anything is created: shared channels, people with no match, names Teams would refuse, and teams that already exist.

How it runs

  1. Connect both tenants. The source first, then the destination. On a copy within one tenant the same account can be used for both, without signing in twice.
  2. Pick teams. The source tenant's teams, searchable, with Select all. Give each one its destination name: on a copy within one tenant the name must differ from the original.
  3. Map people and set options. Match each owner and member to a destination account, and choose what to copy: members, private channels and files, with the same file options as a clone.
  4. Check first. Everything is read and checked before anything is created, and you choose whether to run.
  5. Run. Each team is created, then its channels, then each channel's files are copied, and owners and members are added last. A compare of the source with the destination is offered at the end.

What it will not do

  • Posts, chats and tabs are not copied.
  • Shared channels are not copied. Each one is named in the report.
  • A team that already exists at the destination is skipped unless you choose otherwise.

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