Adding a team to an existing SharePoint Online Team Site

Question

How do I add a Microsoft Teams team to a SharePoint team site that already exists? 

Solution

Creation through Teams

SharePoint team Sites are internal websites that can be used to collaborate with your colleagues in Office 365. Similarly, teams within Microsoft Teams are collaborative groups that you can use to collaborate with your colleagues in Office 365, with additional instant messaging and videoconferencing capabilities.

If you have a previously created SharePoint team site and would like to enhance the collaboration features of the group by linking your team site to a Microsoft Teams team, you can do so by following the instructions below. 

1. Open the Microsoft Teams app. 
2. In Teams, select the Teams button 
3. Near the top-right corner of the screen, click the +Join or Create Team button, then select Create Team from the drop-down menu.
4. Select a Teams template of Class, Professional Learning Community, Staff, or Other, then click Use this template at the bottom of the dialog box.
5. Select From group on the left side of the screen.
6. A list of the SharePoint team sites you have access to will appear in a menu. Select the one you want to have linked to a Microsoft Teams team, and then select Choose team.

A Microsoft Teams team will be created that is linked to its corresponding team site. All members of the team site will now have access to the Microsoft Teams team. 

Creation through SharePoint

1. Navigate to a group-connected team site you own
2. Select Add real-time chat in the lower left corner of the home page of your team site.
   1. Or you can find the Add real-time chat entry point in the Next Steps panel which is accessible from the top right section of your team site.
3. Select Add real-time chat to open a panel that walks site owners through a quick tour about the value of adding Microsoft Teams capability to their SharePoint sites.
4. Select Continue to view options to add SharePoint resources as tabs in Teams. Select SharePoint pages, news posts, lists, and document libraries to add to Microsoft Teams that enables your team to work in one place.
   1. Note: Notice the default document library of the team site is pre-selected and cannot be un-selected. This library will be made available as part of the Files tab in the Teams channel. The home page of your site will also be pre-selected, but you can be un-selected. Select resources from the Recommended section to view of the most used resources in your team site.
5. Select Add Teams to create your new Team channel that contains the selected resources as tabs. Once your team is successfully created, Microsoft Teams will be launched automatically and takes you to your newly created Team channel.
6. Find the resources you selected as tabs in the General channel of your new team.
7. A link to the Teams channel now appears in the site navigation of your SharePoint team site.