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Add OneDrive to a workspace. SharePoint Communication site.
Hi I'm using Power BI Service. I am an admin.
I have a new workspace that I'd like to add a Workplace OneDrive to.
Workplace OneDrive: (optional)
The site library will not appear here. It looks like I created the site as a communication site and not as a team site.
I'm guessing that there's no way to link this libary to Power BI Service. Because you don't specify site URLs in the OneDrive box, you specify email addresses for group sites.
This workplace has been around a while. It has a lot of dependencies so I'm not going to do anything that will break the existing connection between datasets and this site.
The answer is no.
There's no way to upgrade a Communication site to an Office 365 Group, and therefore no way to set a communication site as a OneDrive site for a workspace. You can, however, type that URL in every time that you need it.- "It is not supported to connect a Communication site to Microsoft 365 group."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-connect-to-office365-group - "The Workspace OneDrive feature allows you to configure a Microsoft 365 group whose SharePoint Document Library file storage is available to workspace users."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-create-the-new-workspaces#set-a-workspace-onedrive
- "It is not supported to connect a Communication site to Microsoft 365 group."
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Thank you for your attempt.
I'm trying to add a OneDrive site to a workspace (new workspace not classic).
Please see the image in the original post. That's the dropdown to add a document library to a workspace. It doesn't take an URL. It only takes an email address of a SharePoint Team site. Since SharePoint Communication sites don't have an email address, you can't add the site to the workspace. There are two types of SharePoint sites: team sites and communication sites.
I should clarify that the workspace is new workspace, but it's not new. It's been around for a while. If you don't know the answer, that's ok. I can keep typing the OneDrive URL in the field when I get data from the service.
(also, I'm the same person as above. I just have 3 accounts, which I use based on the company email I'm using when I login to the community site. I have my day job email, my side-gig email, and my personal email for my consulting. You'd think that Microsoft would take a clue from LinkedIn and support multiple email addresses).Modern workspaces no longer come with a Onedrive/sharepoint attached - that was a thing for Classic workspaces.
Technically it doesn't matter - you can use whatever Onedrive you want, and store source files there.
What are you trying to achieve?
The answer is no.
There's no way to upgrade a Communication site to an Office 365 Group, and therefore no way to set a communication site as a OneDrive site for a workspace. You can, however, type that URL in every time that you need it.- "It is not supported to connect a Communication site to Microsoft 365 group."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-connect-to-office365-group - "The Workspace OneDrive feature allows you to configure a Microsoft 365 group whose SharePoint Document Library file storage is available to workspace users."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-create-the-new-workspaces#set-a-workspace-onedrive
- "It is not supported to connect a Communication site to Microsoft 365 group."
