This is Awesome!! Now the news that you publish on your #SharePoint site can be cross-published to a channel in your #MicrosoftTeam. This really is great news for bringing communications and processes / tools together. I would love the ability to add the communications from my Intranet on the Team though, so let’s go put that request in.

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace that brings together people, conversations, content, and tools for easier collaboration.  When you create a Team, you create or connect to an existing Office 365 group, and the group gets a SharePoint team site. SharePoint team sites include the News feature, which allow you to keep your team in the loop as well as engage them with important or interesting stories. To further enhance collaboration, you can configure a Microsoft Teams channel that is associated with your team site to automatically show news posts from your team site as part of a channel conversation. Read more…

 

Click on the ellipses next to the channel name and select Connectors: 

Search for SharePoint and select the SharePoint News Connector:

Install the Connector:

Then Save the Connector:

This is where you can configure the connector as well, click Configure to make changes:

If you need to remove the connector again, this is where you’ll select to remove:

This is the News Article on SharePoint Home Page:

And there it is in my channel. Voila!!! 🙂

Purpose of this blog challenge:  I will write 365 blogs in 365 days around Microsoft 365. I did a similar challenge with Office 365, blogs can be found  https://tracyvanderschyff.com/microsoft-365/ . I won’t just be talking about the new Microsoft 365 subscription model. I will be sharing any news, tips and tricks around Office / Office 365 / Windows / Mobility and Security. And let’s not forget all the great new Apps & services available.  A lot of what I’ll share on Office and SharePoint will also be applicable to none “Office 365” versions.

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