New features ease adding SharePoint content to Teams

Microsoft has announced that they have made further steps into a deeper integration of their two main collaboration tools. As a result, it is now possible to bring Teams into your SharePoint site, as well as the other way round – pin certain documents or lists to be added to the Teams channel separately, via the improved SharePoint tab.

All these recent changes focus on a stronger collaboration experience and ease team members’ access to all the important files that are work-in-progress in one application or the other.

This is not only making it more comfortable for team members to collaborate on the same resources, but it also encourages organizations to adopt the Microsoft suite on a larger scale, given such transparency and clarification features.

How to add Teams to your SharePoint space?

1. While logged into SharePoint, select the lists, files, or pages that you want to add to Teams as tabs.
2. Click the Add Teams button.
3. Your team site home page will be selected by default, but you can change it according to your needs.
4. If you need to navigate through the document library for selection, use the breadcrumbs.
5. To collaborate in Teams on the recently added resources, make sure that all team members open the same document.

Using the SharePoint tabs into Teams

In addition to the mentioned new feature, same-team members can also pin  pages, library news, or lists to their Teams channel by clicking the “+” button and choosing SharePoint and the content.

Users will also see a new Recommended tab which contains the most relevant SharePoint content their team is working on, for a more direct access and selection.

On this occasion, the SharePoint pages app in Teams also brings a few changes. Namely, users can now add a page from any SharePoint site link and then paste the URL of the page or news post that has to be added as a tab. Upon permission verification, users will either be taken to the respective page or offered the possibility to request access.

With such useful options, it is likely that SharePoint will become even more popular than the benchmark 200 million daily users announced recently.