Bring your team. Bring your channels. Bring your history.
A weekend-shaped migration from Microsoft Teams to OmniTeam. Concept mapping, week-1 timeline, downloadable runbook PDF. No sales call, no implementation services to buy.
THE TEAMS → OMNITEAM MIGRATION
What you bring with you, and what stays behind.
We are honest about which Microsoft Teams concepts import directly, which we approximate, and which we don’t handle yet. The table below is the contract — if a row says imports, you can rely on it.
CONCEPT MAPPING
From Microsoft Teams terms to OmniTeam terms.
| Microsoft Teams | Our equivalent | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tenant + Team | Workspace | ✓ imports |
| Channel | Channel | ✓ imports |
| Threaded conversation | Threads | ✓ imports |
| Chat (1:1, group) | DMs | ✓ imports |
| Files (SharePoint-backed) | Files (Hetzner-backed) We move files to EU-owned storage | ✓ imports |
| Meetings (video) | Voice/video via Jitsi/Whereby v2 native; today: integrate | → approximated |
| Tabs + Apps | Webhooks + integrations | → approximated |
| Outlook integration | Email integration Tutanota/Proton/standard SMTP | → approximated |
| Loop components | Plain Markdown for now | ✗ not yet |
| Microsoft Graph data | Standard exports | ✗ not yet |
WEEK 1
What the first week actually looks like.
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Get organized
Identify which Teams channels actually carry critical conversation. Most M365 deployments have 80% dormant channels — those don’t need migration.
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Spin up {brand}
Create workspace, import core channels, identify pilot teams (the ones who already complain about Teams).
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Pilot teams cut over
Run pilot channels in OmniTeam. Multi-account means pilot members keep Teams for the org-wide announcements.
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Org-wide rollout
When pilot teams report cleaner workflows, expand. Teams cutover is slower than Slack cutover — 3-4 weeks is normal.
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Decouple from M365
For the chat surface specifically. Outlook + Word + Excel can stay; the chat product no longer has to.
FAQ
What people ask about migrating from Microsoft Teams.
Can we keep using Word, Excel, and Outlook?
Yes — those tools have nothing to do with team chat. We replace the Teams chat surface specifically. Office Apps continue to work as before.
What about Teams meetings?
For launch we integrate with Jitsi, Whereby, Google Meet (yes, despite the irony — meeting tooling is a separate sovereignty question). Native voice/video is a v2 commitment.
What about SharePoint files in Teams chats?
Files migrate to EU-owned storage during the import. Permissions are preserved at the channel level. Deep SharePoint links remain functional in messages.
Will procurement accept this?
Procurement that is genuinely sovereignty-driven prefers us. Procurement that is structurally Microsoft-aligned will resist any move. The conversation is about who picks the chat tool.
What about Teams Connect / external tenants?
Cross-workspace channels are a v2 commitment. For external collaboration with non-{brand} parties, Teams or Slack remain the path of least resistance for now.
Is there a Teams-specific import tool?
We import via Microsoft Graph export (the standard format). Channels, threads, files, members all come over. Meetings recordings and Loop components do not.
How do we handle the org-wide rollout?
Pilot teams first (typically engineering or product), then expand. Teams rollouts take 3-4 weeks vs Slack 1 week — the bundling makes it a procurement conversation, not just a tool change.
What about regulated industries?
Audit log architecture, retention policy, DPA, sub-processor list are all available self-serve at /trust. Most regulated buyers prefer our enforced-at-database audit log to Microsoft’s application-layer audit log.
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