Create Team from existing SharePoint site, and other requests

#1 User Request on SharePoint:
Enable integration of Microsoft Teams to an existing SharePoint site rather than to always create a new site collection

There have been a few ideas raised on integrating lists, OneNote, document libraries, etc. from an existing SharePoint site with Microsoft Teams, but in summary, it will be best if we could create a team upon on existing site, so that the "Files" and "Notes" tabs would directly reference the existing document library and OneNote in SharePoint. It does not make sense to have two separate sites: one for all the usual SharePoint stuff, and another just for Microsoft Teams.

#2: Link to Existing SharePoint Sites

Trying to link my Team up to an existing SharePoint site - only seem to be able to link to individual folders rather than the whole document library, meaning that if i want all folders on the Team i need to create multiple tabs to get this. Would be good to link to a whole document library rather than one folder.

#3: Other Asks

Post Team chat to SP microfeed
Connect team sites onenote if available (replace default notes)
Add links to existing document libraries (replace default files)
Add links to existing lists
Add support for SharePoint taxonomy and managed metadata, SharePoint views etc :D

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Isaac Chua shared this idea · Nov 2, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

on the backlog ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Aug 6, 2018

This feature request is working its way through the backlog queue. No new details are available yet.

-Warren

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on the backlog ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jun 1, 2018

This item is still queued in the backlog. Unfortunately there are no additional details to share at this time.

-Warren

on the backlog ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jan 25, 2018

This item has moved to the backlog. There is no additional info to share at this time.

As things develop we will post updates.

-Warren

under review ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Aug 25, 2017

So, I have got an update for you.

We have pulled this out of “planned” and backwards to “under review” because the SharePoint team is working on a feature to allow you to convert an existing SharePoint site into a Modern Group. And as you likely already know, once it is a Modern Group, it can be easily converted into a team in Teams.

I’m trying to get a status update from the SharePoint team on this feature — once I have it, I’ll let you know.

Thanks for your patience and hope everyone is enjoying their August.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

planned ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jun 21, 2017

Hi everyone, thanks for your responses!

I’ve talked with our Files team (here at Teams) and this item is planned, but note that for this item to happen, it has to be done by primarily by the SharePoint team.

So I’m trekking the long haul across campus to knock down some doors on the SharePoint team to see if we can speed this up. Will let you know how that goes!

Suphatra

needs your feedback ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 23, 2017

Hi everyone, so I think there are multiple asks in this request, as I’m getting messages asking for different things. Can you vote in the thread below and tell me which scenario you are seeking?

Scenario A: When creating a new Team, you want to be able to point an existing SharePoint site to that Team without having to migrate the site over. (For example, currently when you create a new Team, we let you elect an existing O365 Group during team creation so it automatically ports all the people into the new Team.)

Scenario B: You want to be able to “Bring your own SharePoint”, which means you want to be able to add an existing SP site as a tab into a channel.

If you are asking for Scenario A, then can you please answer these follow up items:

Q1: If we made this possible, then would you expect the SP library to auto-generate channels in accordance to the folder structure? What would you expect to happen if you selected an existing SP site in the team creation process?

Q2: How important is this to you, comparative to other asks in UserVoice? The best way to answer this is giving it a 1 to 10 rank, 1 being this is nice but not vital, 10 being there is no other feature you want more.

Q3: Would using the Create Channels API fix this for you, so you could make your own solution?

Thanks everyone, and a special thanks for your patience as we learn more about what you need.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

completed ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 9, 2017

Hi folks,

BYOS — Bring Your Own SharePoint! You can now integrate an existing SharePoint Online library into Microsoft Teams.

Just add your own SharePoint by clicking the little plus sign in your channel, which is next to the last tab in any channel.

Note — this will only work for existing SharePoint Online libraries. We do not have support for migrating existing on-premise SharePoint into Teams.

Thanks and just tweet me if you have any questions.

Suphatra

Twitter: @skprufo

under review ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Mar 12, 2017

Hi everyone, I was reading through the comments here and it sounds like this item was not completed to address your needs. Can you add to the thread the scenario you’re in, or any other relevant information, that I can pass on to this particular dev team?

Thank you for your help! We’ll try to make this work to meet your needs.

Suphatra

completed ·

Angela Sze responded · Nov 5, 2016

Thanks for your feedback! You can currently add an existing Sharepoint library to you channel by clicking the + to add tab, then select Sharepoint. Please let us what you think of this feature!

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RW commented · January 19, 2019 2:49 PM · Flag as inappropriate

So many things are on back-log now - you are Microsoft, I hope you don't struggle for money to hire real developers to, you know, do some tangible work?
Anonymous commented · January 18, 2019 2:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a must, Please can you let us know when we will get it.
Anonymous commented · January 17, 2019 2:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is vital for organizations to not duplicate information regarding projects in progress between teams archive folder and already existing sharepoint project folder. Please let us know any update in this subject since it's difficult to track which ideas are being implemented. Thank you.
Erron commented · January 15, 2019 9:41 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Very necessary
Chris Tobler commented · January 7, 2019 1:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Any news on this? We would like to create a new Team site using an existing SharePoint site and connect the default (Files tab) to an existing document library.
rtsrt commented · December 20, 2018 9:24 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Having the ability to create a Team associated with an already-existing SharePoint site would be a HUGE feature as it would prevent the oh-so-common issue of "The org already stores files in an SP site, but Teams users now store files in the Files tab for the Teams group" madness.

This would also help those users who are annoyed by the fact that you cannot change the SP site location for the Files tab in Teams.
Nathan Berger commented · December 18, 2018 12:09 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Just a gentle reminder that some of this is already possible: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-connect-to-office365-group

Along with this, some members are saying below that there's a link on the root of a SharePoint site collection that can do this as well.
Anonymous commented · December 17, 2018 3:42 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Adding support for linking to a site and not a site collection so team sites reside within the one site collection. Information managers and SharePoint governance would greatly benefit.

I understand Microsoft has struggled with its culture of Teams not collaborating. But other organisations don't operate like this, especially academia. Reduce information silos and empower cross team communication/rollup. Remove barriers, don't create them by default.
Anonymous commented · November 28, 2018 10:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I cannot locate the link to create the MS Team from the SP Team Site, and I'm in the Root site of the site collection. Where is this link located?
Anonymous commented · November 23, 2018 1:36 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Quick update.. The link to create an "MS Team" from a "SP Team Site" will only appear in the "Root" site of a site collection. It does not appear for "sub sites" that may themselves be "SP Team Sites" /Marcus
Anonymous commented · November 23, 2018 1:18 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Hi All, I noticed that a link appeared yesterday (22 Nov 2018) that allows me to create a "MS Team" from my existing "SP Team Site".
The only confusing thing for end users is that "Conversations" in the "SP Team" links to the "Group" in outlook whereas in the "MS Team", the tab "Conversations"relates to the threaded "MS Team" discussion.
The "Files" tab in the "MS Team" now correctly navigates to a folder in the "SP Team Site" document library to a folder with the same name as the Channel.
I also noted that the the "SP Team Notebook" did not come over to the "MS Team" automatically and needed to be added manually as a tab in Teams - but it DID work nonetheless.
Also when I went back to the "SP Team Site", the Quick Links menu automatically gets a new entry "Team" - which links directly to the corresponding "MS Team".
This is a great feature. Thanks to all those on the Microsoft team that made this happen.

PS. Whilst this is a fantastic feature, it would have been even better had the "SP Team Site Notebook" been added automatically and "Conversations" in the Quicklinks was renamed to "Group Conversations" so end users realised it was different from the "MS Team" "Conversations"
Revathi SC commented · November 22, 2018 12:04 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Adding to the request for integration with SP site, it will avoid duplication of effort and documents. During actual execution, there will unwanted confusions of which document to use.
Can also enable the calendar feature or integrate with SP calendar to track leave and enable in resource planning. The current feature only has task tracker
Anonymous commented · November 14, 2018 9:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I need the "files" tab in a channel point to an Existing SharePoint Site. Having existing SharePoint libraries linked to as "tabs" does not help us. If someone accidentally uploads a file in the "conversations" tab, now it's in the New Team SharePoint and not our existing site. Having more that one place where files are stored and not being able to control where files get uploaded is pretty unmanageable.
Anonymous commented · October 30, 2018 9:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

this needs to be a thing..... we are looking to deploy teams around our company and like the teams integration it has with SharePoint team sites. BUT all of our SharePoint sites are legacy sites and we cannot link them to teams. cannot believe this is in back log and not urgently being worked on! also when you are trying to push a product like teams having the functionality working before release would be advised! but we area ware that this is unheard of by Microsoft so i guess ill just have to wait for a long time!
Anonymous commented · October 17, 2018 7:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

When is it expected to get this feature to link to sharepoint sites as this is required to really benefit from using Microsoft Teams and not having to copy paste which is WASTE in my books.
Bart Louwagie commented · October 16, 2018 12:30 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Agreed. Is crazy how complex Microsoft makes this. Why is there a "open this in Sharepoint" when you then can't really connect to a Team's location from SharePoint.
If that is not possible then make Flow be able to use/be triggered by Teams's lists.
Anonymous commented · October 12, 2018 9:41 AM · Flag as inappropriate

please get this off the f-backlog and into f-development!!!
Martin commented · October 5, 2018 1:38 AM · Flag as inappropriate

We really need this function in our organization... Please add it.
Anonymous commented · October 2, 2018 6:38 PM · Flag as inappropriate

2000 Votes! Please make this available. I followed the post shared by @Nathan Berger but this option isn't available to me in our sharepoint environment.
Anonymous commented · August 8, 2018 4:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

@Nathan Berger. Its still here because Microsoft is insistent on creating thousands of site collections. Furthering the SharePoint Governance mess. Teams should be one site collection with subsites for each Team. Site Collection administrators IS NOT a permission level for users.

A Governance mess doesn't even touch the sides.