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Where your files really live

Seven screens. About three minutes.

One large box with the words your file inside it. your file

Your file.

You saved it somewhere. Where?

A laptop on the left, an arrow to the right with a small amber square travelling along it, and a large box labelled one store. your laptopone store

Not on your laptop.

It went to a building you will never visit.

Three boxes on the left labelled OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, each with an arrow into one large box labelled one store. one store OneDrive SharePoint Teams

Three doors, one store.

They look like three places. They are one.

The same three doors, each with a small grey label underneath: just you, a team, the team. one store OneDrive just you SharePoint a team Teams the team

The door decides who else gets in.

That is the only real difference.

The Teams door drawn in amber, with a dashed amber arrow running up from its arrow to the SharePoint one. one store OneDrive just you SharePoint a team Teams the team

Teams keeps nothing.

A file you put in a channel is in that team’s SharePoint.

Do today

Open a file from a Teams channel, then find the same file in SharePoint.

That's the whole thing