office 365 groups: deep dive

Office 365 Groups: Deep Dive

Alex Pearce

Alex Pearce (Office 365 MVP) Director @ BFC Networks BLOG: http://www.bfcnetworks.com apearce@bfcnetworks.com /

@alex_pearce Interests in Office 365 Education,

Configuration not Customisation, integration.

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Getting things done at work means sharing information and collaborating across ad hoc groups and project teams.  But, often times the tools we use to bring people together are different in each app—distribution groups in Outlook, buddy lists in Lync, groups in Yammer.  That’s why we’re introducing Groups in Office 365, so you can easily connect with the colleagues, information and applications you need to do more. Blogs.office.com

What is an Office 365 Group?

So, is the team site dead?

Demo

CREATING AN OFFICE 365 GROUP

Creating and navigating through a Office 365 Group

Exchange distribution group Email address (%%GroupName

%%@%%defaultdomain%%) Emails all members Stores the email in the group

Group Mailbox Stores all emails and calendar items Get-groupmailbox

Under the hood - Conversations

Azure AD Group Admins and Members

Under the hood – Group Membership

SharePoint Site Collection SharePoint document library

Content is loaded from the Site Collection into OneDrive

Under the hood – Files

Demo

WHERE IS MY GROUP CONTENT?

Where can I see this information in my Office 365 Tenant

Anyone can see Public and Private Groups

Groups set to Private, users can request access

Group Admins Manage Requests

Visibility of a Group

No Content Management Content Types Tagging

No External Access/ContactsNo True Private Groups

Features not in a Group

Creates Group based on the name you give it Alias Email Address Site Collection

Query in Creation

Everyone can create a group by default

PowerShell Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity "OwaMailboxPolicy-

Default" -GroupCreationEnabled $false

Update to OWA-PolicyAssign new Policy to users who you

want to create Groups

Preventing Creation of Groups

Demo

PREVENT USERS FROM CREATING GROUPS

Updating the OWA Policy

Azure AD Management Company Administrator Helpdesk Admins

Add themselves as Admins to Group (no approval required for Private Groups)

Accessing Office 365 Groups

Default anyone can create a groupA Group Name could be someones

name

A few gotchas…..

Roadmap.office.com

Futures of Groups

Roadmap.office.com

Futures of Groups

Thank you for attending!

Alex Pearce @alex_pearceapearce@bfcnetworks.com