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SharePoint & Teams Folder/Directory structure
jeffburkholder You have probably considered this but mapping drives is the old way of working. It keeps the File Explorer as the starting point and excludes any other productivity that is to be gained from Teams. Its a mind shift away from everything being architected around files.
We also see the lack of a mapped drive as a distinct bonus, as this is one of those things that was forcing us to maintain VPN's and Citrix, as people couldn't access files remotely. Mapped drives also mask out a lot of the power of SharePoint. Seems a shame.
Syncing is the solution to having "local" file structure to work with when speed is required.
I'm having to re-educate my usership on how to get the most of the suite. It is not by clinging to previous ways of working. We're telling people that Teams is your aggregation of all the tools and a great way to start performing work. Work fro anywhere on any device etc too.
A lot of tasks can be done from within its walls (view/edit docs, tasks, convos) and then you can always hop out to the full version of the app.
I have my hold outs too, however between Teams and Slack, this is the way that things are moving to. My biggest request would be a better way to move work that started in Outlook to Teams and (if necessary) back again. A much harder problem to solve.
I agree. I like the power of Teams and SharePoint. Just wish as IT person, that I can make shortcuts to specific folders that are in our SharePoint (data archives/company resources) instead of the whole Dir. structure of SharePoint.
See my screen captures and all will get it. If a company wants to have a company wide SharePoint structure for data archives, file resources company wide, accessible on any device with SharePoint, why can't I have just the Marketing Folder that's in the 'Shared Doc' of SharePoint linked in Teams instead of the whole SharePoint Folder structure. Again, shortcuts would be a perfect resolution to direct people in a team to specific Folders in/on the SharePoint. Not some other Dir./Folder structure that Teams makes that's outside the SharePoint.
OR, is MS trying to get rid of SharePoint 'Shared Docs', because if that's the case then allow access in SharePoint to get to the Teams Library, because I see no way to get to those inside that Library, unless I use the web SharePoint, which is slow and clunky... sure like a mapped drive that's right in the OS... fast, easy and because I built it I know it... along with my other IT/Web teammate.