Office 365 Groups: all you need to know about it and

why it is important to you !Patrick Guimonet

Office Servers and Services MVP, Microsoft RD

Office 365 Groups: all you need to know about it and why it is important to you !

Office Servers and Services

MVP ( for the 6th time)

Microsoft Regional Director

Hi, I’m Patrick.

Paris, France

Enterprise Solutions

Architect at Abalon

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What are Office 365 Groups ?

Introduced in September 2014

Regularly improved since that time

Provide a full set of tools : conversation, calendar, notebook, file, plan

To a set of members

An increasingly powerful and crucial feature in Office 365 !

An “intelligent fabric”

Covering is expanding quickly

Find help about groups in Office 365

Mobile apps Demo

Outlook Groups iOS apps

Inspired from Recapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite and Ignite 2015 BRK3114

Office 365 Groups for mobile

Identity

Office 365 Groups

Office Graph

Browser Demo

Inspired from Recapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite and Ignite 2015 BRK3114

Office 365 Groups

Identity

Office 365 Groups

Office Graph

In the browser

Office 365 Groups in the browser

Discover Groups page

Groups details

1

2

Change group image

Group Calendar

Group Files

Group Notebook

Office 365 Groups as a SharePoint security group

Office 365 Groups as a SharePoint security group

Office 365 Connectors for Groups

Office 365 Connectors for Groups walkthrough by Maarten Eekels

Add &EnableConnectorDevPreview=true at the end of the URL

https://dev.outlook.com/Connectors

Office 365 Connectors for Groups

Power BI

Planner

Features and Architecture

How to reach Office 365 Groups ?

Exchange /

Outlook

OneDrive

OneNote

SharePoint Sites

Power BI

Planner

Groups main features

As an object

◦ Has a Privacy option : Public or private, which means people can join or only be joined

As a DL object

◦ Subscribe or unsubscribe

◦ External address available (if checked)

As a security group

◦ Can be used in SharePoint

A set of tools : Conversation

Calendar

Files

Notebook

Plan

◦ And access to others Group meeting in Skype FB

Team Site in SharePoint

Dashboards in PowerBI

Ignite 2015 BRK2113

Governance options

We can:

disable Group creation for all users

allow only certain sets of users to create groups

define naming conventions

blocked word list, pre-/post-fix based on AAD attributes or fixed text

We should:

◦ define a global naming convention

◦ always add a meaningful pictureto group

◦ Be clear on users communicationon what is the purpose for groups (versus Yammer, Mails, DL, …)

In Office 2016…

Groups in Outlook 2016

Inspired from Recapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite and Ignite 2015 BRK3114

Office 365 Groups

Identity

Office 365 Groups

Office Graph

Azure Active Directory

In the browser

Outlook 2016

Outlook Groups app

Administration and Roadmap

Managing Groups in Office 365 Admin Center

In Office 365 Admin center, you can create, edit and delete a group

Managing Groups in Office 365 Admin Center preview (1/2)

Managing Groups in Office 365 Admin Center preview (2/2)

Managing Groups in the Azure Portal (1/2)

In Azure portal, you can see (not edit) groups configuration

Set dynamic membership groups

Managing Groups in the Azure Portal (2/2)

Manage Groups with PowerShell

Cmdlets are in Exchange Online cmdlets.

*UnifiedGroup for managing Group

1. Get-UnifiedGroup

2. New-UnifiedGroup

3. Remove-UnifiedGroup

4. Set-UnifiedGroup

*UnifiedGroupLinks for managing to membership and ownership information

5. Get-UnifiedGroupLinks

6. Add-UnifiedGroupLinks

7. Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks

Set-UnifiedGroup parameters Alias (Exchange Alias)

AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers

AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents

CalendarMemberReadOnly

AutoSubscribeNewMembers

CustomAttribute1 to CustomAttribute15

EmailAddresses

HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled

HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled

Language

MailTip

MailTipTranslations

Notes

PrimarySmtpAddress

RejectMessagesFromSendersOrMembers

RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled

Compare appsIn the browser Mobile Apps (iOS) Outlook 2016 Via PowerShell

Create a group Yes Yes Yes Yes

Change settings Yes No Yes Yes

Browse groups Yes Yes Yes Yes

Delete group Yes No Yes Yes

Add members Yes Yes Yes Yes

Remove members Yes Yes Yes Yes

Promote as admin Yes Yes Yes Yes

Remove as admin Yes Yes Yes Yes

Access Conversations Yes Yes Yes Via REST API

Access Files Yes Can’t upload files Via browser Via REST API

Access Notebook Yes Via app OneNote Via browser Via REST API

Access Calendar Yes No Yes Via REST API

Access Planner Yes Via Mobile browser No Via REST API

Open a group meeting in Skype FB

No No Yes Via REST API

Team sites evolution to Office 365 groups

Hybrid for SP2016Announced at MS Ignite

Announcedat MS Ignite

Office 365 Groups

© Abalon 2015

In green promised and

delivered features

Yammer Roadmap

announced

© Abalon 2015

In green promised and

delivered features

Key investments for 2015-2016

Administration eDiscovery & legal hold

Data Loss Prevention – in Group views

Auditing

Mobile administration

Dynamic and hidden membership

Expire inactive groups

Soft-delete and restore

Multi-domain support

Office 365 admin reports

Hybrid guidance & improvements

Experiences Guest user access (external users)

Continuously improving UI design

Search and discovery

Calendaring improvements

Outlook for Mac support

Integrations Office 365 Planner

Office Graph and Groups on Delve

Skype Meet now

SharePoint (workflow and tagging)

Yammer

office.com/roadmap

Ignite Australia Nov, 16th,2015 PRD313

BRK2113

BRK2113

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