Microsoft Teams has been very popular in the business space from the last two years, mainly because it focuses in “collaboration” in the cloud with better productivity outcomes amongst companies who have adopted it already. To use Microsoft Teams to the full potential of it, it is necessary that you integrate it with Office 365 apps for your cloud business.

Microsoft SharePoint integration with Teams

We share a few best practices for a decent SharePoint Online integration with Microsoft Teams to provide Teams business benefits to SharePoint users in your cloud business:

• Keep your files organized

before you perform the integration, it is important to manage all your documents first and keep your files organized. Take advantage from SharePoint’s management capabilities to stay organized.

• Create Microsoft Team from existing SharePoint Site

Even though the SharePoint team site may have all the necessary files and documents you need to continue with the project, a full-fledge chat capability is always missing in SharePoint. Microsoft Teams provide that and you can create a new team in MS Teams and associate that with your SharePoint team site. With SharePoint Online integration in Teams, the files and documents can also be managed from MS Teams.

• Have a good governance plan

To make the integration, it is essential to have a good governance plan. In this way, once the changes being made, you have a strategy planned ahead of time. So, you have a good plan for every stage of your Teams rollout.

• Train your employees

Before you start SharePoint online integration with Teams and to attain Microsoft teams business benefits, you need to educate your employees. To be able to make best use of Microsoft Products that work together, it is important to make your employees aware of all the basic and advanced features of Office 365 tools.

• Establish a decent naming convention for O365 groups

With a well-established naming convention, you are in a position to enforce a policy through Azure AD. In this way, you can get rid of duplicates and have a neat and clean Teams deployment without things being in a mess.

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A new level of collaboration is emerged once SharePoint is used alongside Teams. Let’s have a look at how did the collaboration space has taken the form in the cloud and how Teams work and benefit your business:

Teams are Tasks oriented
It is necessary to keep all things related to one task in one place like messages, notes, and meetings documents. If the relevant teammates are online for immediate access, it is always a plus.

Extra work eliminated
While working with Teams, many things get streamlined and hence the need of extra work is eliminated like extra e-mails, notification to relevant members, or documents being shared explicitly to teammates after each revision. The need of various small tasks is eliminated altogether.

Information sharing gets smoother
Teams provide a great way to collaborate within a channel. Any meeting can be called right on spot. Brainstorming sessions and online collaborations on e.g. whiteboards get much easier while working with Teams.

You might think that in all this Teams scenarios, where does SharePoint come in?  The answer to that is: Both Teams and SharePoint team sites have one thing in common: they are organized by a project, topic, an organization or some other point of focus for a team in the cloud. So, channels and Teams often have a similar structure for project sites and SharePoint team respectively.

Teams Documents can be shared and stored to SharePoint and OneDrive and have a number of benefits for businesses.  Here are major points:

1. There are two special protocols which are common to SharePoint and One Drive along with Teams and that are: WOPI and FSSHTTP. These protocols are responsible for document co-authoring along with dealing of online versions of Office Applications. So, Documents can be worked on Teams alongside Sharepoint without any co-authoring conflicts.
2. SharePoint and Teams both provide previewed and opened in Teams and SharePoint. There is an option to open Files in SharePoint, while working on Teams. There are no compatibility issues.
3. With documents been worked on at SharePoint, they are better protected, automatically classified and labeled, discoverable with eDiscovery and prevented from Data Loss.

With these extra benefits of handling documents in Teams and SharePoint, the project team gets the benefit of both the worlds. Better collaboration leads to lesser complications, both in documentation and in practice. This not only enhances the performance of the team with better collaboration in the cloud, but also proves beneficial for the business.

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