SharePoint behind every team and Yammer community
In the previous chapter, we discussed how M365 Groups provides the foundation for many connected services in the cloud. SharePoint Online sites are always created whenever a Groups-connected artifact is created. SharePoint becomes the place where files are stored for these services. Nowhere is this more visible or more important perhaps, than two of the other key collaboration tools in M365 – Microsoft Teams and Yammer.
Teams and SharePoint
Microsoft Teams is a chat-forward collaboration tool with a desktop, web, and mobile client experience that leverages storage in both Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. All chat messages are stored in mailboxes. If we have a 1:n private chat or private chat group, each individual message is stored in a hidden folder in the mailbox of the chat participants. Any file shared is uploaded to the sharer’s OneDrive for Business location. If there is a chat within the Posts area of...
