Managing Microsoft 365 OneDrive/Teams Files and Folders

Note: As you start to utilize all the Microsoft modern workplace applications, it becomes a daunting task of where to go to easily find files you own, files you shared with, other people’s files that were shared with you as well as Microsoft teams files. The below guide will help you navigate all the options you have with managing your files.

Shows my.mines.edu website

 

1. Navigate to my.mines.edu and search for Microsoft OneDrive. Click to open.

Shows OneDrive on the web

2. This will be your one stop shop for any and all files. On this first section, you can search for any file/folders across your personal OneDrive as well as files shared with you.  I will go into a bit more detail on the other sections below.

OneDrive web options

OneDrive on the web shared view

OneDrive shared options

3. Two features to pay attention to here. Shared, you can see what was shared with you and files you have shared out. You can manage each file differently. As seen above, you can even add shortcuts to files that have been shared to you. Also, the recycling bin is where your data goes when you delete certain items from your OneDrive.

OneDrive web browse by file options

OneDrive web people view

OneDrive web Meetings view

OneDrive web media view

4. This section is pretty slick. It can show you the people that you collaborate with and the files you have shared between each other, Meetings you have attended and files shared within the meeting, as well as all media which shows a lot of the screen shots you may have taken with snippet. 

OneDrive web quick access Teams

OneDrive web Teams view

5. The next section shows all of the MS Teams you are a part of and the files that are within those Teams. This is a nice way of seeing all Teams and files you are a part of