OneDrive vs SharePoint vs Teams

How does SharePoint differ from OneDrive on Office 365? How can I sync the cloud storage devices to my computer? Share them? Add new files? Upload existing documents? How does OneDrive's new Files on Demand feature work?

Microsoft Teams is exploding, but when we save files, where does the file really live? Sometimes its OneDrive other times SharePoint. Can I create a file in Teams but not SharePoint? What about in SharePoint but not Teams?

[d.peters]

A few comments:

• For those watching closely, you probably noticed that David had two Xconsulting folders. Those are both OneDrive controlled directories but one shows files stored in OneDrive and the other represents files stored in SharePoint libraries. Files cannot be synced between these two directories no matter how nice that would be.

• There is no way to sync FROM an existing OneDrive folder on your computer to Sharepoint (or Teams) no matter how much sense that makes.

• There is no easy way to set up bi-directional syncing for multiple users between OneDrive desktop sync and a Sharepoint library.

Final observation. You may or may not have noticed from viewing this video that these various MS tools force the user to create separate, duplicate files. You can upload to a chat but these are not synced to anything. The upload creates a new file. You can upload from OneDrive to Teams but again, not synced. For an enterprise environment, this is highly problematic since there is no versioning. People can open files and mod them from inside Teams but other versions exist elsewhere.

The expected behavior of syncing files: Teams <-> OneDrive <-> Sharepoint <-> Teams, does not exist.

[rolo]

A fair bit to take in for someone new to 365, but your video and sequence is very well laid out. I’ll probably watch it again as I give it a try and probably get stuck here and there. Thanks for putting this up.

[Usavoicedata]

David is there a way to have applications select my OneDrive for Business folder instead of my Personal OneDrive folder? I am trying to use Zapier to create a folder within my OneDrive for Business folders, yet all that comes up when I try to select the OneDrive folder to put the new folder in is my Personal OneDrive folder (and Zapier doesn't have an integration with Sharepoint). Thanks Sam Sansome

[wannabedal-adx]

So with Teams getting more and more functionality, Why do you need SharePoint??? Files being placed in various areas within Teams (Post, Chat, or the Team's file folder) and then those being sync'd to the business OneDrive account, I don't see a need to spend time with SharePoint!!

[JoshMoore]

So if a file gets uploaded into a chat, it looks like it then gets saved into the "Files" tab in the chat, which won't stay in sync with the file in your personal One Drive - is that correct? If so, what is the recommended way of sharing a One Drive file in Teams chat where you want some collaboration input?

[fleagle]

One is SharePoint, while the other is SharePoint. And the last one is SharePoint

[rfawkes]

is there a way to link a folder from one drive to teams (not just copying it)

[MarkyGoldstein]

Google Drive isn't perfect, but it's way better than this.

[huggekarlsson]

DAH F```k, please bring your volume down man,

[raymondadamsjr]

There's a lot of good information here, but good lord man you blew my eardrums out with your audio levels.

[johncrump]

Good info but that initial loud “hello” was quite off putting— almost stopped right there.

[iainblanks]

I know you mean well but there was far to much waffling, it was painful to view !

[caz]

I like this video - the sequence and the way you explain things is good. My suggestions for improvement are: 1. keep your voice to the level its at when you start talking about a private garden'. 2. close any windows/ internet tabs that you don't need so it doesn't clutter the screen, 3. only move the mouse when you need to perform an action. In certain parts it moves 'a lot'.

[jhtrico]

Thank you. I was intimidated at the 15 minute video, but everything makes sense

[tomotobe]

might i ask, if i open an shared document in teams, then i click to use the desktop version, after editing, will it be save automatically too? or do i have to click save?

[vdamjanovski]

Isn't it funny, at the point of explaining SharePoint, around 40"~50" in the video, you show Mac's, a non-Windows OS?! I wonder when will Microsoft start simplifying things and make them user-friendly, rather than make them as complicated as possible, thus "user non-friendly". For example, why couldn't Microsoft make a simple, elegant and meaningful tool bars that do not have millions of icons and choices which take half an hour to go through and find what you can and can't do? Have you ever heard of "Human interface"? Simplicity and functionality as used by Apple and Humans...

[Mel-rthb]

Thanks! This was indeed useful! Office 365 can be really confusing!

[mownaveena]

Is there a way to protect files on the sharepoint/teams files so that they cannot be altered or deleted by other members or even owners when there are multiple owners?
Thank for the clear explanation of One Drive/Sharepoint/Teams! So helpful.

[kurtglaser]

We have Office 365. Can I have a folder on my desktop 'automatically' sync with a folder in Teams or Sharepoint? Or will I need to manually hit the sync button to keep the folders update today? Thanks

[bwkgroup]

Liked after 15secs. Good visual comparison and examples