the anatomy of office 365 groups
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THE ANATOMY OF OFFICE 365 GROUPS
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REFERENT
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TARGET
AUDIENCE
ENDUSER DEVELOPER
DECISION MAKER ADMIN / ARCHITECTS
TOPICS
Overview Architecture Managing Roadmap
UI
PowerShell
O365 API
overview
creation flow
managementflow
Idea ofGroups
Components
Experience
GROUP PRODUCTIVITY
› Groups are a new feature in Office 365 for communication and collaboration
› Groups are not based in SharePoint Online or Exchange Online etc. Groups are an Office 365 feature that use several components from SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Azure and more…
› Groups are a loose coupling of independent services.
BENEFIT
SELF-SERVICEAVAILIBLE FOR EVERYONE BY
DEFAULT
SHARING WITH EXTERNAL
USERS
CONTEXT & HISTORY
TRACKING
SIMPLE TO MANAGE
SIMPLE TO ADMINISTER
STRUCTURE AND
SERVICES
GROUPS EXPERIENCE
UPCOMING GROUPS
EXPERIENCE WITH DELVE
Picture is taken from Ignite session: “Office 365 Groups | Overview and Roadmap”
GROUPS
› Azure Active Directory is the master for group identity and membership across Office 365
› Federated resources – Office 365 services extend with their data
› Loose coupling - Services notify each other of changes to a group: creation, delete, update
Exchange
•Mailbox
•Conversations
•Calendar
SharePoint
•OneDrive
•Documents
•OneNote
other
- Group ID- Resource URLs- Owners- Members
GROUP CREATION FLOW
Exchange
SharePointUser creates a Group using OWA
Group is create via AAD Graph
GROUP MANAGEMENT FLOW
Exchange
SharePoint
Update Groupvia AAD Graph
UpdateGroup
UpdateGroup
UpdateGroup
FwdSync
GROUP MANAGEMENT UX
› Integrated within the Office 365 & Azure Admin UI› Office 365 Admin
› Azure AD Admin
› OWA
› Exchange Admin
POWER SHELL
› All cmdlets execute against Azure AD
› Create, edit, and delete operations are available
› Manage members and owners
› Available to tenant admins
OFFICE 365 UNIFIED API (BETA)
› https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/myorganization/groups
› MANAGEMENT› Create a group
› View a group of a given Id
› show a group members
› Update a group's description
› Delete a group
› /CONVERSATIONS› Create, read, and delete
› Reply, forward
› /EVENTS› Read; CRUD
› /FILES›
SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 2015
•Outlook 2016 & mobile app
•Office Graph & Delve integration
•Skype, Dynamics CRM, Yammer
•Planer
•Extensible to third party apps
EXPERIENCES
•eDiscovery & legal hold
•Data Loss Prevention
•Soft-delete & restoreADMINISTRATION
•Get/Set Group photo
•Full-text searchEXTENSIBILITY
