What's imported for chats?

The data import tool copies chat messages from channels in Microsoft Teams to Google Workspace. Importing chats doesn't delete or modify existing Google Chat spaces or messages, but not all features in Teams are supported. Review the following table for details.

Imported features & data

Feature in Teams Feature in Google Workspace & monitoring points
Channel Space
Channel manager or owner

Space manager

If there are multiple managers or owners for a team, only one becomes the space manager in Google Workspace. The other managers and owners become regular space members.
Channel name

Space name

After an import, the space name is the team name and channel name separated by a hyphen. For example, if the channel and team name are General and then My team, the space name is General-My team following an import.
Plain text
Bold
Italics
Strikethrough
Quoted text
Paragraph spacing
Hyperlinks		 Supported
Emojis Supported
GIFs Show as a hyperlink to the GIF source
Microsoft SharePoint links
  • If the SharePoint link doesn't have an attachment, the name of the hyperlink is displayed.
  • If the SharePoint link has an attachment, the name of the attachment is displayed.
Channel types All types import as a restricted space.

You can change this setting after an import. For details, go to Set up space access for Chat.
Mentions Import as plain text
Ordered lists Import as unordered lists

What's not imported?

  • One-on-one chat messages
  • Bot messages (display as the name of the bot)
  • Chat messages where a single user chats with multiple users
  • Underlining and rich text formatting
  • Tables (display as Missing_Table in Google Workspace)
  • File attachments (a Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint item or an item uploaded from a user's computer)
  • Pasted pictures and stickers
  • Code snippets (display as Missing_Code_Snippet in Google Workspace)
  • Streams, praise, and approvals
  • Chat messages to users outside of your organization or from former employees
  • Information displayed in a message card
  • Nested lists
  • Custom emojis
  • Message threads that are longer than 500 messages (for long threads, only 500 replies import)


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