This one has been a long time coming! After many requests from customers and countless workarounds, I’m super excited that the ability to favourite files and folders in SharePoint and OneDrive is now available. Whether it’s a personal working file in your OneDrive or a shared document in a SharePoint library, you can now “favourite” files to easily access them in one place.

With so many tools at our fingertips in the Microsoft 365 suite, you might have found yourself asking “what tool should I be using for what purpose?”

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive all enable users to manage and collaborate on documents, however their subtle differences and unique features make them ideal for different purposes.

As we have previously covered, Version History is turned on by default in all document libraries, tracking any change that is made to a document.

We know it’s easy to view previous versions and restore them directly within SharePoint, but what if you want to compare one version to another?

If you’ve been working with Teams for a while, you may already be familiar with the ability to share files with your colleagues, either in a channel or in private chat.

However, you may be surprised to learn that no documents are stored within the Microsoft Teams application itself. Teams utilises document storage tools that already exist within the Microsoft 365 suite. These are OneDrive and SharePoint.

Many of us are familiar with OneDrive Sync – it offers a convenient way of accessing SharePoint documents from your windows explorer, which many users are comfortable with.

However, last year, SharePoint Online released a handy new option to “Add a shortcut to OneDrive”.

So what’s the difference?