Migrate Teams Classic to New Teams

Microsoft Teams doesn’t require any introduction as the world uses it now. But with the recent change in Microsoft about Teams Classic retirement many organizations are looking for options to migrate to new Teams. This article will guide you on how to Migrate Teams Classic to New Teams.

You can go through the article which Microsoft has been published – End of Availability of Teams Classic

Prerequisite

There are some prerequisites for the upgrade.

  • Microsoft Teams-wide installer should be available.
  • Access to Teams admin center

Process

The process is pretty simple to follow:

  • Log in to the Microsoft Admin portal and go to Teams admin center.
  • Expand the team section from the left-side panel
  • Click on “Teams update policies”

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  • In the Manage policies section, we will not disturb the existing Global (org-wide default) policy, we will create a new one
  • Click on Add to create a new policy
  • Provide Name and Description as per your organization’s standard rule
  • Turned off preview features, in the production environment, it is always good to have an update from the current or enterprise channel.
  • Select New Teams as default or New Teams Only

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  • Click on Apply
  • Now let’s apply to employees
  • Go to Group Policy assignment
  • Click on Add
  • Select Mail-enabled security or All Company.
  • Select the Policy which you created.
  • Select the rank, which will create the priority that rank 1 will apply first

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  • Click on Apply

That’s it, now wait until the policy is applied to users and then try to open Teams on the user’s system. That will open New Teams.

 

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