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SharePoint Online vs. Microsoft Teams for Project Management and Cross-Site Document Searchability
The big big big negative that I see with Microsoft Teams is that you cannot search for project documents across private Teams SharePoint sites OR repurpose MS Teams SharePoint sites as SharePoint Online sub-sites.
Doug, this hadn't occured to me until now. I share your curiosity around this question, and likewise agree that ability to search across these Team sites would be important.
Can't you use the new search capabilities on the SharePoint home page to search across all the modern team sites (Office 365 Groups) you belong to/have access to? Wouldn't this allow you to search across team files in multiple SharePoint sites?
https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Find-news-sites-and-portals-in-Office-365-6b85097a-87e0-4611-a29a-dfd49b1a1220
Agree.... All Teams docs are stored in the docs library for the SharePoint Teams site mapped to the Group/Team. Each Teams channel gets it's own folder in the SharePoint docs library. The is the exact value prop of Teams being mapped to a Group-- you get the best of both Teams and SharePoint for doc management.
BTW-- The attachments uploaded to planner also go into the SharePoint docs library for the Team/Group. Yammer is currently the only service that doesn't play by those rules.
Thanks for the responses EricDavisTech, Edward Lee, & keith Caravelli,
Microsoft Teams does not build a Sharepoint site that automatically imbeds into a seperate full-scale SharePoint Online site collection. Microsoft Teams generates its own mini sharepoint site collection that does not integrate into SharePoint online; unless the IT department enables Enterprise Search capability and Publishing functionality. The SharePoint Online site that I was provisioned unfortuatly was a basic Online site with no advanced functionality (including Enterprise Search)....to search across multiple site collections.
-Doug
