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SharePoint Online vs. Microsoft Teams for Project Management and Cross-Site Document Searchability
Thanks for the responses EricDavisTech, Edward Lee, & keith Caravelli,
Microsoft Teams does not build a Sharepoint site that automatically imbeds into a seperate full-scale SharePoint Online site collection. Microsoft Teams generates its own mini sharepoint site collection that does not integrate into SharePoint online; unless the IT department enables Enterprise Search capability and Publishing functionality. The SharePoint Online site that I was provisioned unfortuatly was a basic Online site with no advanced functionality (including Enterprise Search)....to search across multiple site collections.
-Doug
Hey Deleted, are you saying that when you use the search box at the top-left of the "SharePoint" home page you cannot find the file you stuck in the Teams app? I've taken a look under the hood at the SharePoint sites provisioned with groups I created in Microsoft Teams, and they look like full-on, modern SharePoint Team Sites.
I did a quick test and tried the following-- are you not seeing similar in your tenant?
1- Add a file to a channel in Microsoft Teams (or even better, do this test using a file that is already uploaded to Teams so you don't have to wait for SharePoint to index the file):
Add a file to TeamsAccess SharePoint Search from the SharePoint landing pageSearch for and find your MS Teams file