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Office 365 Basics
Hey Adam Ochs,
thank you so much for the quick and detailes reply.
That already helped me a lot.
I got an idea where to look and start now.
Do you have any recommendations for help documentations or tutorials on how to set this up properly?
I haven't managed to find something yet.
Thanks again!
Flo
Hey Florian Maaß,
This guide is great is you are going to try teams, and like i said I am a huge fan of theres. Think of Skype on steorids (in a good way). It does chat, video, screenshare, plus some additional great collaboration options such as the file sharing you were looking for.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/microsoft-teams
Just start on the getting started section of that doc, and it will guide you through what you need to know.
If you just want to stay simple for now, and tackle teams later, this doc will walk you through setting up a document library in Office 365.
Goodluck, if you start getting into it and have any questions, just come back here or shoot me a PM and I will be happy to help!
Adam
Hey,
this is great. Thanks again.
I will work my way through those guides. Right now I'm feeling like it might be a good idea to stay simple for now to get it started and then switch over to teams once I fully understand whats happenning in O365.
Also thank you for the offer of help in the future. I might come back to that! :-)
Cheers,
Flo
- If you are knowing you are going to be splitting folders / permissions up. You need to design your Teams around that. Don't create one Team and expect to split permissions, you will want to design multiple Teams around the permission group of Files. So say you have an HR Folder usually. You would want an HR Team and so on. So think top level files and and folders would be multiple Teams.
You can use a SharePoint document library and have custom permissions per folder but Teams has been the go to since you also get all the other collaboration surrounding your file spaces / Teams. You can also restrict folder access inside of Teams to non owners but it could get a bit confusing if you go in and start messing around with sub permissions on a Team, the idea is that if your in a Team you should have access to everything in that Team.Hello again,
after looking at sharepoint / O365 I'm getting the feeling that this system is to huge for what I want.
I'll try to describe what I am aiming for and I would like to ask you guys to tell me if sharepoint / O365 / OneDrive is what I want to use for that.
We are a small company with around 10 employees. We need a storage including a structure where different people have access to different folders, files and data. I will have an folder for HR, Sales, Costumers, Projects and so on and the employees form different projects won't be able to access the data of a project they are not involved with. Also we need a new solution for our Mail so O365 seemed like the perfect choice.
What I am wondering about in Sharepoint:
- It feels uncommon to me to set up some kind of website to enable people to access files and data. It seems way to inconvenient for everyone if they have to up- and download files prior to editing them. Or do I understand something wrong about how Sharepoint works in this matter?
- Why are the users in O365 not connected to sharepoint? I set up a few users in O365 to test different szenarios. Now that I am trying to set up Sharepoint, none of those users show up. Why were I setting up Groups and Roles for Users if they wont be used anywhere?
Maybe someone can give me a hint if I am looking at the right solution.
Thanks a lot for the help.
