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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 is...
- 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
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.
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.