All departments automatically get a shared OneDrive Area create, full details are here: Department/School Shared OneDrive. The following instructions are for creating additional private OneDrive Areas/Teams Channels for specific people within your department.
- Click on Teams and then click into the Team where you would like to create the private channel and/or private OneDrive area:
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- Click on the three dots and then click on "Add Channel"
- Name the Channel (ensure you get this correct, a channel cannot be renamed once created, it would need to be deleted and recreated)
- Give it a description if desired
- Under Privacy select "Private....."
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- You can add or remove people by clicking the three dots and selecting "Manage Channel"
- Once the channel is created a shared OneDrive area by the same name is created which will appear within the Shared Libraries section of the new channel member's OneDrive accounts
- To quickly access go into the Channel
- Click on "Files"
- "Open in Sharepoint"
- This will open the web version, if you then press "Sync"
- This will add the shared area to your File Explorer version of OneDrive:
- Please note: for the above sync to work you will need to be logged in to the OneDrive app on your PC/laptop
- To check you will see a cloud icon on your taskbar
- You may need to click on the arrow if it doesn't show like the following screenshot (on this version there is no line through it, which indicates the user is logged in so the sync will have worked)
- To check you will see a cloud icon on your taskbar
- If it has a line through it, click on it and login
- Then try clicking the Sync button in the web version again