Shared Home Folder in SharePoint

[SalesServiceGuy]

For SharePoint users, what is the benefit of scanning documents to a shared Home folder?

For one, everyone with access to a specific SharePoint site, the user group could easily scan to and see the paper documents that were intended to be shared.

[SalesServiceGuy]

For SharePoint users, what is the benefit of scanning documents to a shared Home folder?

For one, everyone with access to a specific SharePoint site, the user group could easily scan to and see the paper documents that were intended to be shared.

... so I decided to ask CoPilot AI.


A Shared Home Folder in SharePoint is a special type of workspace that allows you to share the contents of a folder across all computers where you have your account, and with other users by invitation.

The main purposes of a Shared Home Folder in SharePoint are:

1. Collaboration: It enables multiple users to work on the same files simultaneously. This is particularly useful for collaborative projects where team members need to access and edit the same documents
2. Access Control: When you share files and folders, you can decide whether to let people edit or just view them. You can also see who a SharePoint file is shared with, and stop sharing SharePoint files or folders, or change permissions, at any time.
3. Organization: Instead of sharing multiple items at the same time, you can add the things you’d like to share to a folder and then share the folder[.
4. Integration with Microsoft Teams: A Teams-connected SharePoint site is created automatically whenever you create a team in Microsoft Teams. By default this SharePoint site will have a document library named Documents (Shared Documents) where you can add shared files which can be used/co-authored by your team members

Remember, when a user shares a folder that contains items with unique permissions, no edit permissions will be removed or restricted. Instead, sharing will only add or grant permissions

[SalesServiceGuy]

Toshiba just released a new MS365 SharePoint Online app version 4.6.03 that adds a new feature called scan to "Shared Home Folder".

I am not a big SharePoint user but I am trying to figure out how this benefits IT Admins and site users.