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My company is converting all our network drives from Windows file system on local servers into SharePoint drives. We have a team of 12 engineers who use a shared network location to access our Macros, Materials, Appearances, Templates, Sheet Formats, Blocks, Custom Properties, etc. I predict that SolidWorks is not going to be able to find these files anymore since it will expect typical file system paths which SharePoint doesn't seem to have.

Have you you experienced a change like this and do you have any feedback/advice. I don't see how this could possibly work and not break SolidWorks functionality.

We do something similar to that, but we use Teams / Onedrive. I know all of that is tied into sharepoint somehow, so maybe we are talking about the same thing. If not, you might recommend investigating the above solution. WIth it, you get a local path to all of the onedrive folders. You can also cache locally any folders you want, so they don't have to be downloaded to open them. I would ask the network people if the Sharepoint drives can be setup the same way.

We went thru this last year and they had to create a mirror copy of the file on my local drive, if not the file paths references for assemblies and drawings get messed up. By default the path is username/......folder path, and since each user has a different username the paths are different and we got a lot of file not found message for files not in the same folder.

SharePoint:

The solution desperately in need of a problem.

We "tried" to instantiate a SharePoint instance once. All it did was generate a bunch of FTE's to support what was a useless data depository that everyone hated.

It took about 18 months before no one would use it and it was a complete cluster trying to coordinate files and such.

Good luck

doobes wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:52 pm SharePoint:

The solution desperately in need of a problem.

So True

SPerman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:29 am Should I store my files in Microsoft Teams or in SharePoint?

Ever since our company went to MS 365, everyone here has gone hog wild in putting files in this environment instead of our old server locations which were standardized. So now its a game of "where did we put that file"?

• Teams meeting files.
• Teams "Team" folder/channel.
• Shared SharePoint folder.
• User SharePoint but shared to other users.

Search works to point, and its certainly better than searching a server, but the more we add, the more stuff you have to look through.

As I understand it, per our IT guy, Teams is the framework for the file storage. The actual storage is done in SharePoint, and the interface is OneDrive.

We've never done anything with SharePoint. At first we used teams quite a bit, but over time it has just become a big sink hole of information without a good way to sort or store. It is still used for day to day chat, but not much else these days.

SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 6:50 pm We've never done anything with SharePoint. At first we used teams quite a bit, but over time it has just become a big sink hole of information without a good way to sort or store. It is still used for day to day chat, but not much else these days.

This is an understatement. Be glad you work for a small company because our "Global" corporation has gone all in. They want most all our server VMs gone and to use SharePoint/Teams/OneDrive for all files. Which would be fine for the most part if we had some organization but instead we have a 1000 people just putting stuff everywhere all willy-nilly.

Their solution is to subscribe to Co-Pilot. (Their AI.) It will find and sort all of the information for you.