Move your SharePoint On-Premise to Teams

With the Covid-19 pandemic, remote working has become a must more than a luxury. Many companies decided to adopt Microsoft Teams as a collaboration software between its employees, and others even moved part of their infrastructure to it. This article will explain how Microsoft Teams works and the relationship between it and SharePoint Online.

What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based software that centralizes the way we work on projects, organize information, and communicate. It has robust integrations with other Microsoft and third-party services like PowerPoint, OneNote, and SharePoint Online.

Key components of Microsoft Teams:

• Teams: Collection of people, tools, and content surrounding different projects and outcomes within an organization.
• Channels: Dedicated sections within a team to keep conversations organized by specific topics, disciplines, and projects. Every channel has an email address and when a team member emails the unique address, it creates a conversation in Teams.
• Tabs: Tabs allow team members to access services like Power BI reports, external links, Azure DevOps, Planner, OneNote, and other content in a dedicated space within a channel or in a chat.

What is a SharePoint Team Site?

A SharePoint team site is a modern site template of the famous highly configurable Microsoft web-based collaborative platform SharePoint Online.

Key features of SharePoint:

• Lists: A list is a customizable collection of data that can be shared with team members and other site users. The SharePoint team site comes with five lists: announcements, contacts, events, tasks, and links.
• Document libraries: A document library provides a place to store files that can easily be from any device at any time by the other team members where they can access and work on them together.

What are Office 365 groups?

Office 365 groups is a service integrated with the other Microsoft Office 365 tools that allow team members to share resources like Outlook inbox, calendar…