SMUS Microsoft Teams - Copying Files from OneDrive

If you regularly use Microsoft's OneDrive, you may want to transfer files into your Microsoft Team. This is especially important if the group of people you need to share the file with changes regularly, or you are leaving the organization.

Note that there is currently a transfer limit of 50 MB per file on this copy method. If you need to move files larger than this, please contact the IT department for assistance. We have a workaround that can help you with this.

Log in

Open the website https://teams.microsoft.com and enter your email address
Once redirected to the SMUS login page, enter your password and log in

Follow the team in Sharepoint

You need to make a connection between your OneDrive and Microsoft Team. Follow these steps once in order to do this.

Click into the Team, then the Channel you want to upload files to
Go to the files tab and click the "Open in SharePoint" button
Click the "Not following" star in the top right corner of the Sharepoint screen
"Not following" should change to "following" and the star should end up filled in

Copy the file from OneDrive

Open the website https://email.smus.ca and click into your OneDrive
Check one or more files or folders, then click "..." and "Copy to"
If your Microsoft Team is not available yet, click the Browse Sites button
Choose your Microsoft Team
Choose the channel to copy into
Choose a folder or create a folder. Once you have reached your target, click the "Copy here" button
The file copies are now separate, so changes made in OneDrive will not be reflected in Teams, and changes in Teams will not be reflected in OneDrive. If you intended to move the files, you can delete the originals in your OneDrive.