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File Collaberation in Teams versus file management on internal coporate servers
We store all our files on internal corporate servers and would not be moving all our files to O365. Is there anyone using Teams for file collaboration, but maintain all their files on internal corporate servers? If so, how is this managed?
- You are free to do it but the user journey from teams to get files in file explorer isnt the best. Bear in mind that Teams has file storage via SharePoint so unless you completely turn this off you may find users start to store files in Teams.
Might be worth looking if you can create links from Teams to your file shares. See what happens when someone shares a link to a file on a file server via teams.
Overall advice is it's not a recommend scenario but if their are business reasons that are stopping you migrating to the cloud write out some user journeys and test then out with your users.- Thanks for the suggestion.
- Yeah! Basically you have to separate the files and file collab and just use other features like meetings and chat! But even then you would have files in the cloud when you attach files / create meeting notes etc. And having files both in cloud and on premises can be a mess if this isn’t planned very carefully and people know what should be where etc..
Links to local files aren’t supported. You can go in and vote for that on Teams uservoice. There are several requests created:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/
Adam- Thanks. Agree that files in cloud and on premises could be a nightmare with regards to versions, which is my concern. We are an Architectural firm and have a lot of large design files that we wouldn't store in the cloud.
- Hi!
Since Teams is a cloud only service, working with files located on-premises in Teams is not possible!
