Teams

Who is Teams For?

Teams is great for any group of people that have to work together on a common task or goal.  This could be your department, it could be a committee, it could be a working group across the whole school.  The best thing is that it can span many people across many departments and instantly give you a communal space to pool all your effort and resources.

Senior Leadership, Management and others are using Teams to store meeting notes and share files quicker.

How do I migrate to Teams?

The first step if you want to start using Teams is to have a discussion with the Network Services Manager.  He will discuss your departments readiness for Teams and help you decide how best to begin migrating over.  At the time of writing the only department to have fully migrated is the Network Services Team but others are adopting a hybrid approach and we hope that others with start following suite.

Next if your department is ready to begin using Teams we will help you setup a new Team with your department as members and show you how to access your SharePoint files.  You can then start storing files together and working on them.

Once you are comfortable with Teams you can begin planning how to migrate all your files over to Teams/Sharepoint.

The final goal will be to then delete your entire department space from the local network as you will no longer need it or see any use in keeping it!

Teams and SharePoint

One of the most confusing concepts with Teams is the difference between SharePoint. SharePoint is simply a strange name for a OneDrive folder that is shared with the whole team. Whenever you create a Team, you automatically create a SharePoint library that only that Team can see and access.

You can think of these Teams and SharePoint spaces as a direct upgrade to the traditional Department folders on the S: Drive. Each "Channel" in your team will automatically get its own folder in sharepoint for you to store and organise files into.