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Copper Contributor

May 11, 2020

Automatic updating teams files from a shared drive

Hi I wonder if you can assist me. I have a shared drive that I would like to share onto teams. I would also like teams to automatically record any updates I make on the shared drive on any file or doc...

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Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

May 11, 2020

Hi benpace-87 ,

Basis behind file sharing in Teams and SharePoint is you move your files into Teams, give everyone access and then remove them from Shared drives.

You can still sync the file structure to your devices but the master copies are always in Teams/SharePoint.

benpace-87
Copper Contributor
May 11, 2020
Andrew Hodges do you have to upload all the files from the shared drive manually to teams? Also once this has been done are you saying to use teams as your main shared network? Rather than the local shared network. Thanks
- Andrew Hodges
  Bronze Contributor
  May 12, 2020
  Hi benpace-87 ,
  
  You can manually upload them but there are migration tools available. Microsoft provide 2 free:-
  
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool
  
  https://mover.io/
  
  My tool of choice is ShareGate as it has many enterprise features and I have used it on over 10 projects so far.
  
  Shared Drives are definitely replaced by Teams/SharePoint, the only thing you may keep them for is very large files or for interfacing with other systems that require import/exports from Shared Drives.