Forum Discussion
Linking Teams to a Communication site?
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.
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?
We'd like to have an IT Communications site, where we can post IT news, updates and documents with the rest of the business.
The teams channel, however, is just for the IT department to communicate internally. Sometimes we have announcements that everyone needs to know about, or just want a quick informal way to send people messages. So the Teams channel wouldn't be public to the rest of the business.