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Linking Teams to a Communication site?
When you create a new Teams channel, by default it will deploy a linked team site in SharePoint for the files to be stored in. However, we need to create a Teams channel that links to a communication...
the only way to do that is as you have already mentioned - add a document library tab.
I think this is such poor design from Microsoft. We can add the Communications site as an additional document library tab, but it just means any documents uploaded to the Teams channel are stored on some other random team site. We end up with two SharePoint sites linked to one Teams, and one of those sites is just an empty site clogged up with Teams attachments. All it does is creates a mess on our tenant.
- I agree, this is frustrating. It is helpful to allow users to discover a Communications site through Teams where people are very accustomed to working.
- The intended approach is (in my view):
Use Teams (and it's associated SharePoint team site) for a group of users to collaborate.
Use a Communication site to inform a wider group of users, by creating news articles, uploading approved policies, processes, forms, etc.I can understand that approach. However, we need a department site that's visible to all employees for our department to share information. Since it's such a public site, we want it to be a Communications site. We also want a Teams channel connected to it, since it will let the entire department communicate on it.
- in terms of the entire department communicating on it - do you mean your department communicating with the rest of the company, or just internal communication in your department?
