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Merge 2 communities in Viva engage and delete one
Hello Members,
Please help me with this requirement below
a) Remove/close this viva community - News - 6.2k users
b) Continue with this community only - News in Exchange - 4.7k users
When the News group is deleted, it would be good if the people that are in group a) are automatically added to group b) so they don´t need to enter another group on their own.
Is there a proper process/solution for this?
Thanks!
Hi chiragshukla20,
I am currently in a similar situation where we are about to merge two existing communities into one.
I am wondering how you went about preserving the content from community A. Did you keep anything? Or just accepted by importing users to community B and deleting community A, all posts from community A would be deleted as well?
If anyone knows anything about archiving content from Viva Engage communities (even if just to store in a separate folder somewhere) - would be highly appreciated!
- Login to portal.Azure.com.
- Select Entra ID >> All groups >> find Group “A” >> select the group
- Navigate to “members” in the left pane.
- Click on “bulk operations” >> Download members.
- The members list with object IDs and UPN will be downloaded.
- Save it.
- Navigate to Entra ID and find Group “B” >> select the group.
- Click on “bulk operations” >> Import members
- Download CSV template which gives you a format to enter the details of the members i.e. with object ID/UPN.
- Copy and paste the details of the members in appropriate format in the file and upload the file in the group.
- You can also find the duplicate members in the list; however, it will give a “bad request” message, and you can remove those members from the list.
- Refresh the page and you can see expected members in Group “b”.
Nothing that Microsoft provides natively. Possibly look to third parties/ISVs for this.
Thanks for the reply. I just have to import users from Group A to Group B and it worked and then to delete Group A. New members will get email notification that they got added to the community.
hey how did you manage to import from on group to the other
