How to replace your network fileshare with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a large communication, collaboration and productivity suite with a wide range of embedded applications and workflows. But at the heart of it all is file storage, courtesy of SharePoint Online.

How to replace your network storage shares with Microsoft Teams

The problem is that the Teams app itself is much more focused on messaging and collaboration, so the process of navigating, locating, downloading, opening, saving, relocating and uploading your files is really quite a dreadful fileshare experience.

Fortunately, we have a solution: Cloud Drive Mapper. CDM is the world's leading drive-mapping solution for Microsoft 365. CDM allows you to map drives directly to Teams storage, and it works seamlessly on Windows 11 workstations and laptops, and Windows Server-based VDI including AVD, Citrix, RDS and VMware.

Mapping Microsoft Teams as a drive

You get all the benefits of the collaborative storage within Teams itself, while being able to continue to fully utilise the storage as if it were on your local machine or network.

Cloud Drive Mapper + Microsoft Teams

CDM + MS Teams gives you a fantastic opportunity to move away from network storage, which makes remote and hybrid working significantly easier, and unlocks a host of Microsoft 365 features that don't normally exist on network fileshares.

Better yet, where Microsoft 365 is lacking, such as in its loose approximation of a file-locking system ("check-in / check-out"), Cloud Drive Mapper automates it on behalf of the local application opening the file, so that it works as well as, if not better than, what you had with network storage.

Together, CDM + Teams optimises productivity wherever your users are working, inside or outside of Teams itself. They'll be able to search for files, drag and drop, edit existing files rather than downloading and reuploading, and create shortcuts to commonly used files and folders.

It also eliminates any barriers to adopting Teams storage in VDI or virtual application environments. Because CDM maps drives to drive letters, it has full backwards compatibility and support for desktop applications, legacy systems, and PowerShell-based drive automation.

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