Post #2565120

2025-08-03 00:48 UTC

It&#39;s very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can&#39;t access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you.

Replies (27)

@skribe@aus.social 2025-08-03 00:59

@zanchey@aus.social I showed this to my wife. She read it. Was silent for a moment, then uttered a soft, mournful sigh.

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@gil@hol.ogra.ph 2025-08-03 03:10

@zanchey@aus.social @kern@hol.ogra.ph

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@ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social 2025-08-03 03:23

@zanchey@aus.social Unix: “see this watch? It’s a file. my car? file. my beautiful wife? file. My perfect teeth? file. now get the fuck out of my office”

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@osma@mas.to 2025-08-03 06:31

ngl, this is very helpful. @zanchey@aus.social

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@aslakr@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 06:50

@zanchey@aus.social @osma@mas.to We are introducing (Microsoft) GitHub Enterprise Server at university. Github have teams https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams which has nothing to do with teams in Teams. One might connect a idp group (from scim) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/synchronizing-a-team-with-an-identity-provider-group but that doesn't happen automatically. And teams might be called the same in different GH Organizations but mapped to different groups.

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@kat@is.burntout.org 2025-08-03 08:16

@zanchey@aus.social and chats... Which are really emails but show in Teams

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@drmikepj@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 08:27

@zanchey@aus.social my particular favourite was Microsoft’s same-same-but-different phase, when we had Skype for Business which wasn’t the same as Skype; Onedrive for Business which was only partly related to OneDrive and SharePoint Workspace which was totally not the same thing as SharePoint at all.

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 08:50

@zanchey@aus.social Reminds me of the rules of cricket... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and....

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@m@martinh.net 2025-08-03 08:54

@zanchey@aus.social username_externaldomain#EXT#@tenant.onmicrosoft.com has temporarily joined the chat :bugcatangrycomputer:

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@luddchem@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 09:13

@zanchey@aus.social A really sad thing is that with the current ongoing AI enshitifIcation of Google, Bing is now in practice the less annoyed search engine to use. Come on Microsoft. You need to try harder.

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@bartschuller@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 09:14

@zanchey@aus.social @aerique@genart.social Note that Copilot is not the same as M365 Copilot, but if you login you will be routed to the other one. Also, if your organization has strict data policies then these will only apply when people login and so you are advised to block access to the free Copilot. 🤡

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@expertenkommision_cyberunfall@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 09:24

@zanchey@aus.social Can you run a Notebook in Sharepoint on a Chromebook in Firefox on top of your Lap?

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@wander@twnc.org 2025-08-03 09:34

@zanchey@aus.social Well put. Of course, Channels in Teams are also like Folders, in the sense that they cannot be given the name LPT1. This is for backwards compatibility: without this rule, such Channels would be Printers instead of Folders on CP/M, an operating system from 1973. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#channel-names

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@catbuttes@freeradical.zone 2025-08-03 09:42

@zanchey@aus.social What about Lists? I hear there are Lists as well...

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@jonpsp@mstdn.social 2025-08-03 09:56

@zanchey@aus.social the only answer is to bring back Lotus Domino R5 and whatever chat app they were promoting at the time

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@brothersoul@mstdn.social 2025-08-03 09:58

@zanchey@aus.social I'm beginning my journey. It's gonna be a long and hard one. But one I'm willing to take, because of the benefits that wait at the end of it. Brother

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@agothu@tkz.one 2025-08-03 09:58

@zanchey@aus.social Yes

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@void@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-08-03 10:22

@zanchey@aus.social I setup misroshit stuff on customer machines once in a while and i wish it was as simple as this. I mean you know you can still install skype for business, right? Thats a very significant software in microsoft b2b ecosystem. I was connected to a guy that had the damn thing open just 2 months ago(i wish i took a ss of it, noone believes me). There is outlook(old one), outlook, outlook(classic) and outlook 356, not all outlooks are created equal. old outlook is the only good one.

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@JHB17@mastodon.online 2025-08-03 10:46

@zanchey@aus.social Unfortunately, I think this post has nailed it. Microsoft. I remember when adding programming to Office would make the world a Better Place. Programming, without a manual. Object Oriented Programming, where everything is a method; printing is Inherited by Range and Sheet but not Workbook or Doc. Subject to change with each update.

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@wakame@tech.lgbt 2025-08-03 11:18

@zanchey@aus.social You can always switch to Salesforce and instead try to figure out why Salesforce Documents are now being replaced with Salesforce Files.

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@kaye@cathode.church 2025-08-03 11:30

@zanchey@aus.social Fun fact: A Microsoft Teams Channel cannot be named "COM1," because a Channel is a Site is a Directory, and a Directory can't be named COM1 because that name is reserved for a serial port. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#channel-names

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@SLRE@mastodon.nl 2025-08-03 11:51

@zanchey@aus.social 😂😂

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@joat@mastodon.scot 2025-08-03 12:00

@zanchey@aus.social 365 means that it doesn't work at all if it's February 29?

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@angusm@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 12:06

@zanchey@aus.social Yes, but how many Slurp Juices do I need to mint new Apes in a Channel if I have an Astro Ape on a Site that isn’t also in a Sharepoint Knowledge Base?

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@joannaholman@aus.social 2025-08-03 12:25

@zanchey@aus.social lots of angst in my office last week because coworkers couldn’t see important changes I’d made to files. Turns out something had clashed in SharePoint and Onedrive’s assorted ways of syncing things resulting in my shortcuts redirecting to a copy of the documents the system had made in an obscure very random folder 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ For a while I was running two different versions of outlook simultaneously because they were both malfunctioning in different ways

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@yayroos@tech.lgbt 2025-08-03 12:25

@zanchey@aus.social Don't forget that in a Team in Teams a Channel is a Folder in a Document Library in a Site, unless it's a Private Channel in which case it's a Site as well - with a Document Library with a Folder.

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@trurl@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-08-03 14:36

@zanchey@aus.social but thank goodness we got rid of that desktop files-and-folders thing. It was confusing for users.

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