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Transferring Shared Files to Microsoft Teams
Hello,
My organization is attempting to move our shared files (currently housed on our server) onto Microsoft Teams. For simple files, it appears to work perfectly. I'm experiencing 2 separate issues.
I am running into problems with certain file types. Is there a restriction on the types of files that can be housed in Teams files? There appears to be a syncing error both when uploading to Teams as well as when trying to map it back to the file explorer.
I am also running into issues when trying to map Private Teams and Channels to the File Explorer. The error, "We can't reach this library because of a service issue. Restart OneDrive to try again." I am using the updated version of OneDrive.
Any tips, on either, would be much appreciated! Thanks.
- Also look at the SharePoint Migration tool, it's free and works really well when it comes to moving documents from File Shares into SharePoint / Teams / OneDrive:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool
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- Also look at the SharePoint Migration tool, it's free and works really well when it comes to moving documents from File Shares into SharePoint / Teams / OneDrive:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-toolHello Chris!
Thanks for all of your help thus far. You have unintentionally been a game changer for our organization! Another question...we have successfully moved all of our files using the SharePoint Migration tool. When we transferred them, there were some odd files that appeared (screenshot attached). I am not able to locate the files anywhere else in our storage. Are these files a byproduct of the migration and can be deleted? Are they file types that are not supported? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks again!
- Those are hidden files usually on network shares from Operating systems, there was an option in the advanced settings in the migration tool to ignore hidden files, which would have bypassed these, but since you already did the migration probably too late at this point I suppose? 😛 They can be removed from SharePoint.
Some tips that might help find and get rid of them after the fact, you can go into SharePoint and create a new view, and go into the view settings. Down near the folder section you can tell it to "ignore folders" which will show files only. you can then filter by name some of these common files, and it will then have a view of all those files such as a name filter with "Starts with ~$. Then after saving you can select them all and delete them in one step.
You might have to add some Indexes to your columns thou since you might have more than 5000 items. Anyway, not sure how many files and folders you have with these, but they are pesky.
- I prefer not syncing everything to move documents. Using SharePoint to drag and drop files works fairly well, unless it's 10k+ files in a folder.
Also Internet Explorer has an option to "Open with Explorer" in the views that will allow you to drag and drop without syncing files down.
As for the restrictions there is a list here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-OneDrive-OneDrive-for-Business-and-SharePoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa
As for file types there shouldn't be, but you can customize this in the SharePoint admin center.
