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Document storage locations: The basics

Document storage locations: The basics

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Document storage locations: The basics

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- [Voiceover] Before we take a deeper dive into libraries, let's look at storage locations more generally. First, even if you aren't using SharePoint you have places to store files. Locally in a My Documents folder, on external drives, on network shares, and before SharePoint and similar products this was our universe. If I wanted to share documents for collaboration, I'd put them in a network share, or I would e-mail them to someone else, or put them on an external drive and we would pass it around. But when I add SharePoint I get not one type of storage location that's cloud based, but two and an optional third choice as well. First, I have team site libraries. By default, every new team site has a documents library. You can add more libraries if there's a reason to separate access to different types of documents within the site. But you also automatically get OneDrive for Business and OneDrive for Business is part of SharePoint. If your organization allows, you can also set-up a…

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