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layer9de
Oct 02, 2020Brass Contributor
Coming from file server: Idea for file and folder structure in Teams / SharePoint
Dear all, we're working with Teams for a year now and are now considering to move some parts of our files and folders from a file server to Microsoft Teams. Or organization structure is as follows...
Andrew Hodges
Oct 04, 2020Bronze Contributor
The approach in 1 + 2 is pretty standard. The only thing to note is that the folders that are used for storing channel files are used for any file that is attached in the respective channel and dumped in the folder at the top level so you may end up with a bit of a mess if users share files that way.
3 - if I was doing it I would create an Intranet for that and create a navigation structure in SharePoint. With the new functionality that is coming out you will be able to add an "Home Site" app to teams for all users. Other people may have other opinions but for cross-company communications I still think an Intranet in SharePoint is the way to go rather than org-wide Teams.