Best Practice for replacing File Servers with Teams

Jleebiker 

What we did was to create an org-wide team (Team_All) that has channels in it for each team and that has info that will be consumed by other departments. Those files are copied from the department's folders to the org-wide one via a Power Automate script.

Then each department gets their own departmental team with any number of channels that made sense to how that team organized their work. Only that team can see that content.

Thanks, I actually think your approach looks very interesting as if I understand correctly you are basically using the org-wide Team as an org-wide document library where content from departments is placed that they want to be publicly available to other departments.

Regarding the syncing with File Explorer: I understand that users like this approach but I'm uncertain if that is the correct way to go because of the limits of synchronization that were already mentioned. I'd rather prefer that users are getting used to access files directly from Teams as this currently seems like the best compromise between usability and future-proofness to me.

Any other thoughts on this topic are still highly appreciated! I'm going to check User Voice now for voices requiring the ability to pin shared folders and files directly within Teams. That would solve a lot of usability issues IMHO!

Thanks
Michael