Microsoft Teams: Enable Microsoft Teams for an Existing SharePoint Site

Overview

This article provides step-by-step instructions for connecting a SharePoint site to Microsoft Teams, enabling document collaboration and the use of Teams channel features.

Instructions

  1. Open the SharePoint site you wish to connect to Teams and select the Announcements (Megaphone) icon in the top-right corner of the page.
     
     
  2. Locate the Add real-time chat option and select View options.

     
  3. Select Connect to Teams to begin connecting the SharePoint site to a Team.

     
  4. Choose which SharePoint resources you want available as tabs in Teams (for example, Documents). When finished, select Add Teams. Note: You can add, remove, or reorder tabs later in Teams. 

     
  5. A Creating your Team status message will appear. This step may take a few moments.
     
     
  6. When prompted by your browser, select Allow to let the website open Microsoft Teams.
Your SharePoint site is now connected to Microsoft Teams. Team members can chat, collaborate on files, use other Microsoft Teams features, and meet using the same shared content. 
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