What's the difference between Microsoft SharePoint and Teams?
Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams are all part of Microsoft 365, which is a suite of cloud-based productivity tools designed for collaboration, communication, and file storage.
- Microsoft SharePoint is primarily a document management platform. It serves as a centralized location to store, organize, share and collaborate on documents and other content.
- Microsoft Teams offers chat functions and video conferencing to serve as a hub to facilitate collaboration. Within Teams, users can create channels for different topics or projects and organize files within channel folders. Files stored in a Teams channel folder or shared in Teams channel chat are also stored in SharePoint.
Should I use Microsoft SharePoint or Teams to store my documents?
There is little difference between storing your files in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint--they are essentially two views of the same file storage system. Files stored in a Teams channel folder or shared in Teams channel chat are also stored in SharePoint.
SharePoint's interface give users more control and has extra capabilities. However, some users prefer storing files in Teams--it's more intuitive because it fits in better with your team’s workflow, which makes collaboration easy.
Want to learn how to upload files to a Microsoft Team channel, please read this article.
How to upload Y: drive/departmental drive files to SharePoint
- Log in here (my.mines.edu) with your email ID and password.
- Click on the 9 dot icon in the upper left corner of your screen.
- Select the Sharepoint button.
- You'll now see the Microsoft Teams and channels you belong to. Click on the group in which you want to add files to.
- Select document from the left hand menu.
- Select whether you want to upload files or folder.
- In the files explorer, open the shared drive and select the file and folder that you want to upload.
- Click upload to upload the file.