How to replace your network storage shares with Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is a large communication, collaboration and productivity suite of technologies with a wide range of embedded applications and workflows. But at the heart of it all is file storage, courtesy of SharePoint Online.
The problem though 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.
Mapping Microsoft Teams as a drive
Fortunately, we have a solution for this. Cloud Drive Mapper. CDM is the world’s leading drive mapping solution for Microsoft 365. CDM allows you to map drives directly to the Teams storage and it works seamlessly on Windows 11 workstations & laptops, and Windows Server-based VDI including AVD, Citrix, RDS & VMWare.
This means that you get all the benefits of the collaborative storage within Teams itself, while being able to continue to fully utilize the storage as if it were on your local machine or network.
Cloud Drive Mapper + MS Teams gives you a fantastic opportunity to move away from network storage which makes remote and hybrid working significantly easier, and unlocks a whole host of nice 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 filelocking 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 when you used network storage.
Cloud Drive Mapper + Microsoft Teams
With Cloud Drive Mapper + Microsoft Teams together you can optimize the productivity of your users wherever there are working inside or outside of Microsoft Teams itself. Your users will be able more easily search for their files, drag and drop, edit existing files rather than downloading and reuploading, create shortcuts to commonly used files and folders and everything else you expect users to be able to do through File Explorer.
It will eliminate any barriers of adopting Teams storage if you are using VDI or virtual application environments. Because it maps drives to drive letters it has full backwards compatibility and support for all desktop applications, legacy systems and Powershell-based drive automation. Cloud Drive Mapper is a simple tool but it unlocks a huge amount of potential for organisations wanting to adopt the cloud.
