How to Build a Website in Microsoft Teams - Using SharePoint

[@ujjwalaapoorva]

My goodness, this video has helped me so much. I was about to create a normal webpage with all these features, which would have definitely taken me more time and money......I am so happy I came acroos your video. Thankyou so much for your help. and yes, I subscribed.....

[@LearningandTechnology]

That’s great! Glad it was helpful!

[@DonnaShanks]

Woo hooo!!! This was super!! I learned so much!

[@kellyboville3086]

What a great video, I wish I had of seen it weeks ago. I learned more in this 20 minute video than from any of several learning modules that I have taken. Thank you and I certainly have subscribed.

[@nurinathirah1224]

It's very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

[@deepakkumar-cl6hs]

Cheers Frank very useful and nice presentation

[@mandyf994]

Thank you so much for this video. Lots of great content!

[@mdibrahimayaz6626]

well, the test is on my birthday itself. By the way great content and love the way you explain.

[@ewulbrecht85]

This is great! I am starting to build a sharepoint now. Really helpful!

[@tgroppi]

Tx great video, when i link our SP community Site to Teams, the navigation bar do not show up, and quick links are broken, any idea?

[@taraneer3075]

Great video and just what I was looking for!! Thank you!

[@desireevandelangenberg7113]

This was so eye-opening! Already knew a lot, but the architecture explained learned me new things, appreciate it!

[@meganlongwill1430]

Brilliant! Thank you, Frank. Just what I was looking for.

[@LearningandTechnology]

Awesome! Glad it was useful. It’s a feature/function that I think is very useful and not as well-known.

[@piscesrastakween]

Wonderful video. Wonderful teaching!

[@fairygeekmother]

Good video, What are the differences between this and your video of Nov. 16, 2021? When to use one method versus the other?

[@LearningandTechnology]

The newer video is a bit of an update - I think it’s even easier to use the News plugin and that video is (in my opinion) a bit better - at least I hope so! Haha 😂

[@rebeccagirson1087]

This is something I didn't know was possible and wish a bit more time was spent on linking the site as a webpage. How is this different than adding a tab in Teams to the Sharepoint site? Thanks for the content.

[@andrewbalzer6263]

I'm wondering the same thing. So far it seems the SharePoint site app is a little more streamlined and purpose built for displaying just the SharePoint site contents. However, it seems that this view also omits some of the navigation elements that you get with the full site. The site I'm working on is still in its infancy and doesn't really have much navigation in the first place so I don't yet know how impactful this difference is. Once I get a few pages set up and some navigation between them I'll compare the two options and try to remember to come back here to comment on my findings.

[@amitgoyal5729]

Hi I have multiple box folders with different owners in it. I wanted to show these folders content in nice searchable one page. Also i want atleast subfolder name should be visible to all. What os the best way to do this ?

[@mazevedopro]

Thank you Frank! You were perfect in your tips!

[@stenzstenz5848]

I really love this video. Thanks Mister.

[@kvdp1805]

Very useful information. Thanks from the Netherlands, Frank!

[@danielparchment]

Great video Frank, I wish I saw this before I created the SP site separately is there a way to unlink a SharePoint site from teams and connect to a different SP site so I could have the syncing capabilities?

[@LearningandTechnology]

I haven't done this, but now it's on my "experiment" list. I'll try to get to this soon.

[@vishalsaraswat947]

In an enterprise licence, is it possible to enable Site Creation option to a few identified resources and disable for rest of the resources.

[@67Keldar]

Awesome 👏

[@pdgoptics]

This is awesome. Is there a way to have this home page appear when clicking on the TEAMS site? It appears that the user must navigate to the home page by clicking on the "our class" tab of the General" channel. Otherwise, what we see is the posts to this TEAM, not the home page. Or...?

[@joenorton2552]

Great video - thank you. I have built a site, how do I fix it so that when any user logs in it will appear?

[@baye3513]

That's great content and very well explained! Got me subscribed.

[@joec6968]

Recently, I get the following error: The URL provided is already in use and the target site is based on a template that is not valid for the current package. Please provide a different URL. Anyone know if this is no longer available?

[@thoughtfuldog5424]

Really clear instructions. Great video

[@banihas22]

If we add a template to an existing active channel will it be a problem?

[@scottii]

What can you use to post HTML code? Thanks.

[@michaelshelnutt3534]

Do I need a TeamChannel first before the website?

[@LearningandTechnology]

Every Team will have the General channel at a minimum- so when you open it in SharePoint it will be there

[@TheMrCsan]

Very helpful video. But I have a problem. You modified an already existing site. When I go to lookbook I can only create a new site but not modify old ones... Is there something I missed?

[@luquegm]

I'm not seeing the "Website" app on my list of available apps (even when I search) is it an add-on?

[@LearningandTechnology]

It’s possible that your IT Admin has disabled it in the Teams configuration.

[@VVH2212]

Just wanted to reach out with a big THANK YOU! Thanks to your video I just created a super useful class resource page for my colleagues and students.

[@mkorpalart]

i’m just wondering if there’s already a page on sharepoint if I change it’s url to a lookbook template would the folders from the sharepoint stay or will those get deleted?

[@Olumide.Oyalola]

Great content. Very insightful.

[@camradd3200]

I like the way you explaining the thing. I like your content too, I couldnt create a website due to permission privilege. I sent to them and I'm waiting for their response. Thanks Frank!

[@handersonlima4879]

That is awesome! Your content and how you explain the concepts and the tools are amazing. Subscribing right now for more content. Congrats.

[@LearningandTechnology]

Awesome, thank you!

[@dannyntsoelengoe8265]

Awesome stuff. Straight forward and simply explained.

[@johnpill1]

Hi there. I've been wanting to do this for my own course but my institution sets up new Teams courses each year for the same course. Is there a way to transfer the site each academic year to the new Team created for the same course?

[@sands-tp1ul]

When an administrator adds this template to a SharePoint Teams site, does it literally mean just that one Team site or is it going to try to apply the template to all the sites in my organization/company? TIA

[@LearningandTechnology]

It will depend on what level they set the template - That might make a good video actually.

[@AndreaRodriguez-ci8mm]

Thanks for the information! I'm trying to do this in my spaces, however I'm having permissions constraints, and I'll have to pass for some approvals. Do you know if lookbook has an additional licensing cost??

[@LearningandTechnology]

Look book is just a set of templates - so it’s never cost me anything 🙂 which is nice!

[@mudsweatandtrails]

I take it this only works with Sharepoint Online and not On Premise?

[@LearningandTechnology]

Yes - I believe that is correct. Teams is built on the Office365 platform

[@AndreaRodriguez-ci8mm]

Hi again, I tried to add a template to an existing site, but I got an error message when provisioning saying "Your request to provision Product Support template [the template I choose] failed!", but I didn't get any more info. Do you know what could it be? Thx

[@LearningandTechnology]

Off the top of my head - it could be a setting for SharePoint/Teams permissions. Which may require your IT team to open up.

[@arnaudcote-leclerc9026]

Hi, great and simple explanation. Well done! Insetting a sharepoint site in a Teams seems to cut the navigation bar/menu (top and left when on sharepoint). What have you found to be the best way to put back the navigation bar/menu? Inserting a webpart on all the pages to reproduce the menu? Create a page called "menu" and insert it in a webpart on all pages ? (To avoid manually going back to all individual pages to modify links but modify only one page / webpart and then all pages are updated...)

[@LearningandTechnology]

This is a bit tricky to explain in text :). I’ll try! If you want navigation between SharePoint pages, you can “wrap” them in Teams and let Teams act as the navigation tool. Otherwise, you can treat them not so much as SharePoint sites in Teams, but as websites on their own. To embed these into Teams, click “add App” and select “Website” - put in the URL of the SharePoint site and it will basically make Teams just act as a “Frame” for the website - so all the navigation tabs will appear. Let me know if this made sense. If not, I’m happy to do a video in the next couple of days showing the difference.

[@LearningandTechnology]

This video may help with the Website embedding part: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnzGpoWDn753sNU

[@arnaudcote-leclerc9026]

Hi, Thanks for the tips. Using Teams (multiple tabs) to navigate between differents sharepoint pages is a good idea, but you need to have only a few pages to make it usable. Any given website that is embended in a "web" tab in Teams work fine... but not for a sharepoint site. I only have the "main" pages, the content (no top or left part) if you like, embended. I suspect a security parameters deep in the site "obscure" parameters config. The result is that Teams shows the specified pages and no hub(tenant) menu, no quick lanch menu, no navigation menu (comunication site)... can't figure out what i'm missing.

[@LearningandTechnology]

@@arnaudcote-leclerc9026 hmmm. Now you’ve started me thinking 🤔 I will need to experiment a little on this

[@arnaudcote-leclerc9026]

I found this "explanation".. : "Home pages (or any other SharePoint pages) pinned as tabs in Channels provide ways to bring content directly into Team collaboration scenarios, and these pages have navigation and search elements removed to facilitate focus on the page content itself. " Ref : techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/the-home-site-app-for-microsoft-teams/ba-p/1714255 Again, microsoft is thinking in a strange way...

[@moodberry]

You are a good teacher. But I wonder, why should I use Teams to show a website when I can do the same thing in Sharepoint. If I am going to teach a class, I have to first get all my students to log in to Teams, then I start presenting. Once I start presenting, I am showing students what I want them to see. But when students are studying on their own, they are going to go to a website to study the material I presented to them in Teams. Therefore, they would want to go to whatever website I set up for them or they will go to other sites for research. Isn't it easier to just send them an appendix of all the URLs they will need to study the material I want them to know, rather than forcing them to go to Teams? In fact, isn't it just as easy to tell them to go to Sharepoint? I suppose I am wondering about what the advantage is to use Teams as you showed here, but you did do a great job explaining the relationships in Teams, Sharepoint, addons, etc. Thanks.

[@LearningandTechnology]

You are correct - you could easily give them a list of websites and send them to SharePoint. The reason I like Teams is that it can act as a unified platform. One place where I can set-up discussions, meetings, resource links, websites, etc. So students can just go to Teams each day and have one place to find many of these resources. It’s just one way though. The ways you mention are completely helpful as well. One area of feedback students have given us when we went to more remote learning is they sometimes felt “lost” on where to go - especially if they have different instructors teaching different subjects. By using Teams they have one place to start.

[@moodberry]

@@LearningandTechnology Thanks. I thought I was missing something about Teams. Yet, I do think there is a missing "connection" in both Teams and Sharepoint. You demonstrated how putting a file in one or deleting it does the same in the other. That is a valuable thing to know. But re: files, what is missing is INFORMING students that a new file has either been posted, or deleted. What would be really useful i s a popup or similar method to let students know that something has changed since last time they logged in. Like, suppose there was a collaborative file students work on, and if student A makes a change, all the cohort needs to know that change happened, Likewise, if the instructor posts a file that all students need to read. Since the last time they logged on they figured they had read the teacher's file, but the teacher might have revised something, or even added a new file. I don't see this capability. Is this possible? If so, I would love to see yo udo a "how to" on this.

[@LearningandTechnology]

Doug Moody ah! Yes. Notifications. I will dig into that. There are a few more cool videos I need to do for Teams :). We can actually do some really interesting things in service of notification and automation for students and staff. There are even some AI functions that are amazing. I’ll be posting some videos that I think you may find very interesting. I’d like to do some on more formal academic collaboration functions - cohort research, etc.

[@moodberry]

@@LearningandTechnology I would LOVE LOVE LOVE such a video on notifications. Please notify me :)

[@imotumbokanaka4157]

@@moodberry adaptive card

[@suzmaxim2282]

Sadly, teams has removed the "open from sharepoint" function, so, while this is a great video, I cannot use it (and yes, I am pouting)

[@LearningandTechnology]

Ah… it had its day in the sun. I’ll need to update the process of connecting

[@sirmycho]

having the voice in only one speaker channel is driving me batty

[@LearningandTechnology]

I hadn’t noticed that! - this is a very old video on my channel. So I think it was during a period where I was struggling to figure out sound. My new videos have definitely improved in this regard - and I’m still learning. It might be best to listen to this one without headphones - or check out the newer version 😀 This video seems so old to me know - makes me wonder what things will be like in another 2 years