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Team Sites
vs
Office 365 Groups
Team Sites vs Office 365 Groups

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What are the building blocks for these collaboration solutions?
WHAT ARE GROUPS/TEAM SITES TECHNICALLY?

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Groups and Team Sites are similar and differ technically in a lot of ways
WHAT ARE GROUPS/TEAM SITES, TECHNICALLY?
Team Sites

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CREATION PROCESS
How does the Team Site creation process and Group creation process differ?

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ONBOARDING
How do users get notified when they’ve been added to a team site or a group?

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UPDATE SETTINGS
Want to update your newly created Team Site or Group?

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INTEGRATION
Want to integrate or surface external data?

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INTEGRATION?
Want to integrate or surface external data?

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POWER BI
Create a workspace to collaborate with your team.
Leverage the Groups collaboration &
communication capabilities to create
and review insights.

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OFFICE 365 PLANNER
Create new plans, organize & assign tasks, share
files, talk about what you’re working on, and get
updates on progress.
Integrated with Office 365 Groups, so all of the
conversations in Planner are available in Outlook
2016, Outlook on the web and the Outlook Groups
mobile app.

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DYNAMICS CRM
Groups experiences are surfaced
in-context within CRM
Create Office 365 Groups for opportunities,
cases, accounts and all other entities.

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WHEN TO USE WHAT?
When does it make sense to use over another?

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MOBILE EXPERIENCE
How do you collaborate with Team Sites and Groups?

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GROUPS AND TEAM SITES
What does the future hold for Groups vs Team Sites?
All groups will surface their team sites
Connect existing team sites to Groups and vice versa
Permissions will be synchronize between Group and Team Sites
Better Team Site Home UX is coming
Groups will get default Team Site in the future

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MANAGING GROUPS
You can disable Groups
Admin UI
 Office 365 admin center
 AAD control panel
 Office 365 Admin app
Scripted via PowerShell cmdlets
 Execute against Azure AD as primary
 Synchronous notification/update in Exchange/OneDrive
*UnifiedGroup
 Create, edit, and delete
 Manage single-value properties available
on the Group object
*UnifiedGroupLinks
 Manage members, owners, and subscriber list Use PowerShell to manage Office 365 Groups & http://powershell.office.com/
Convert an Exchange distribution group to an Office 365 Group

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GROUPS POLICY CONTROLS
Creation Permissions and Policy controls on Groups
Naming conventions
 Set on display name during create/change
 Blocked word list, pre-/post-fix based on AAD
attributes or fixed text
 Same policy for DL and Groups
 IT admins can override
Group creation permissions
 Control groups create UI in Outlook web &
desktop for certain or all users through policy
 Does not prevent users from using groups
 IT can still create groups (managed scenarios)
 See Controlling Group Creation New-OwaMailboxPolicy –Name “<policy name>”
Set-OwaMailboxPolicy –Identity “<policy name>” –GroupCreationEnabled $false
Set-CASMailbox –Identity <user> -OWAMailboxPolicy “<policy name>”

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Office 365 unified API overview
Office 365 Groups REST API reference
Deep Dive into the Office 365 Groups API

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OFFICE 365 GROUPS HYBRID SUPPORT
a
Office 365 Groups are created & managed in Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Azure AD Connect enables synchronization of Groups with your on-premises Active
Directory into DLs with:
– Target Address - the service address of the Groups object
– Recipient Type Details - specifies that the Group is not mastered in the on-premises directory
AAD Premium is required
Exchange 2013 CU9 required (individual mailboxes are on-premises)
Resources:
– Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory
– Office 365 Groups write back

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ADDITIONAL SOURCES
Check out more links on Office 365 Groups
• Learn about Office 365 groups
• Delivering the first chapter of Groups in Office 365
• Deploy Office 365 Groups
• Office 365 Groups overview, administration and roadmap
• Office 2016’s Dirty Little secret