Microsoft Teams OneDrive Integration Tutorial 2021 [END THE CONFUSION]

[@MeeTime]

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[@marivonneessex6699]

Wow. This answered so many of my questions! Still somewhat confused but not near as much as I was. Great job!

[@MeeTime]

No worries, thanks for the comment 👍

[@amycooper5348]

Great info, but my OCD really wants you to download that PPT. again and let it open. It was so close to being finished!😀

[@MeeTime]

Haha. I hate it when things are just left hang......

[@nikkidehart4315]

Thanks. Is "SYNC" creating a pointer back to Sharepoint or is it replicating the object? In Teams you can "create a shortcut to OneDrive". How is this different from "SYNC"? Is this "shortcut" a pointer back to Teams (which is really Sharepoint)? I've just started with all this so maybe the "shortcut" feature didn't exist a year ago but thought I would ask. Thanks! Great job!

[@MeeTime]

Great question - I need to do another video on this. Microsoft is getting rid of the sync button and only having the "Add shortcut to OneDrive" button. To the end-user both of these do very similar things, but apparently one is technically superior to the other in the background hence why MS is removing one. If you "Sync" this uses the OneDrive app to sync the files and appears in a separate place on your computer. If you "add shortcut to OneDrive" this places the synced folder in your OneDrive amongst all your other OneDrive folders, making it more difficult to see which is shared and which is actually in your own private OneDrive IMHO. However because it is in your OneDrive, it works the same in practice, i.e. files and folders from Teams or SharePoint will be accessible from File Explorer and therefore can be worked on offline. (P.S. if this was useful, consider supporting the channel through "Super Thanks" under the video above or via www.buymeacoffee.com/meetime 👍)

[@hunterhill9494]

Is there no way to sync individual folders from one drive to an individual sharepoint that syncs with a specific teams?

[@MeeTime]

No but you can do this the other way around. Have something in SharePoint/Teams then sync that back to your computer for ease of retrieval.

[@ontheroadagain5402]

Still confused. How do you determine that a local file is synced to SharePoint, not just OneDRive?

[@MeeTime]

It will be in a completely different folder. For example, my OneDrive is synced in a folder called "OneDrive MeeTime Ltd" but my SharePoint/Teams files sync to a folder called "OneDrive - Shared Libraries - MeeTime Ltd" and has subfolders named as each Team/SP site at the top level.

[@danc1323]

Yep, I was confused about this before. The video started well, but just when you asked for feedback (10'45"), you managed to throw a monkey wrench back into it. Will see what the other 8 minutes bring :-)

[@MeeTime]

How did you get on?

[@glamnevis3847]

By chance do you have a video to do the opposite., unsync/unlink Onedrive from teams. My personal onedirve is currently linked to my work teams account and I have seen a few of my personal files located in their teams files. I have no idea how I made that mistake Help!

[@MeeTime]

Hi Glam - Even more confusingly, Teams will show files from your OneDrive in the Files app (left hand side rail) but these will not be "in Teams," they are still only available to you. If you have seen your files showing up "in Teams" (i.e. in a files tab of a channel) then these must have been moved or copied somehow from your OneDrive into a Teams channel - possibly by accident if you synced both, but these are quite far away from each other in File Explorer so I would not think this is likely. If you do see any files in a files tab of a channel that you didn't mean to be in the Team, then just delete them (or download them before deleting).

[@charlesthompson1795]

helpful!

[@MeeTime]

Thanks, Charles, glad it helped 👍

[@nickw2271]

this was a very informative video, thanks! One recommendation: if you add chapters in the description, it will make it easier for us to find a specific solution that we're looking for, especially in a video as comprehensive as this.

[@MeeTime]

I think KZbin is adding auto chapters to all videos now - feel free to timestamp sections you think are useful in the comments

[@Lukas_Teo]

Thanks - but it just tells you everything wrong about Microsoft. The fact that an explainer is needed for three things that should be the same thing with the same name highlights how bad Microsoft is at this.

[@MeeTime]

They don't help themselves sometimes 🤦