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Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups!
Today, we announced the new guest access feature for Office 365 Groups, the group membership service that provides a single identity for teams in Office 365. The new guest access feature gives you the ability to include people outside of your company in an Office 365 group. Get the details in this blog post Learn more aboutcollaborating outside the firewall with Office 365 Groups at this session at Ignite Check out the whole lineup of sessions on Office 365 Groups at Ignite here! cfiessingerShashi SingaravelNew feature: Recover deleted Office 365 Group via PowerShell
If you've deleted an Office 365 group, it's now retained by default for a period of 30 days. Within that period, you can now restore the group and its associated apps and data via a new PowerShell cmdlet. For additional information please go to https://aka.ms/groupssoftdelete.Announcing Office 365 Groups + Team Sites integration!
Today, we announced the integration of Office 365 Groups and Team Sites. When you create an Office 365 Group, you geta shared inbox, calendar, OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management—and now, a full-powered SharePoint team site. The integration of O365 Groupsand SharePoint team sites means that any time a new team site is created, a new group membership will be created as well. You can easily see the members of the site, if the site is listed as public or private within your organization and how it has been classified. In addition, all existing Office 365 Groups will be updated with their own team site. And once the rollout is complete for your tenant, all newly created groups will get a team site by default. Get the complete details in this post and learn more during the O365 Groups sessions at Ignite. Mark-KashmancfiessingerIntroducing Outlook Groups on iPad
It's been a year since we launched Outlook Groups mobile apps on iOS, Android and Windows phones. The reception thus far on our mobile apps has been extremely positive, and we have made huge improvements across the board with added functionality, as well as improving speed and reliability of our mobile apps with a goal of producing the best groups experience on the go. Ever since we launched the iPhone app, we’ve seen people using it in all sorts of scenarios, many of them on an iPad! We have heard from teachers in classroom who use iPad as their primary classroom device for the need to have Outlook Groups on the iPad so they can share updates and assignments with their class. We have heard from our enterprise users alike about sales teams who use iPad to share conversations, files and events. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of Outlook Groups for the iPad. Office 365 work or school users worldwide can now download the app from the iPad store. Download the app to your iPad today and go here http://aka.ms/o365g to learn more about Office 365 Groups! All the functionality that exists for Outlook Groups on the iPhone is now also available on the iPad. It’s easier than ever to participate in group conversations, share pictures, or view and edit your documents in full screen, and view and create group events to bring your team together on the iPad. Give it a try and send us feedback.Kady DundasUpdate: Auto creation of Direct Reports group in Outlook (MC96611)
Following the publication of this message center post: Auto creation of Direct Reports group in Outlook on March 16 (MC96611), we've seen a few questions and concerns from customers about this upcoming feature slated to roll out on April 13 th , and wanted to provide an update to our community. The goal of this feature is to help managers collaborate more effectively with their team, using groups in Outlook (see thisarticle for more info). We understand your concerns and have decided to limit the rollout of this feature to a small set of customers (notified via MC94808) whom we will work with directly to ensure both feedback is considered, and that feature usage has a positive impact. We thank you all for your constructive feedback, and look forward to continued Group innovations in the future.How to stop users creating new Office 365 Groups using an AAD policy
https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2016/06/07/controlling-the-creation-of-office-365-groups-using-an-azure-active-directory-policy/ The steps necessary to create and enable an Azure Active Directory policy (directory setting) to limit creation of new Office 365 Groups to a set of users defined in a nominated group. All good clean honest fun.What to do when you dont necessarily want a Group?
I'm still concerned about some of the approaches being discussed (every site gets a group and every group gets a site). It seems there will be lots of unwanted sharepoint sites and o365 groups sitting out there, worried about content sprawl (now not only in the cloud, but sprawling into user's Outlook). Will there be a way to disable the SharePoint site if a group is created? Will there be a way to disable the O365 Group is a SharePoint site is created? Can you change the Groups permissions on the SharePoint site - like the Group only has Read access to the actuall Group SharePoint Site, or it could be removed all together technically? I'd really like to see the ability for O365 Groups to have a checklist of services you want activated / deactivated (by services I mean SharePoint, Planner, Notebook) Maybe you want a Group strictly for discussion and internal doc library, but no sharepoint, no planner, etc. Maybe you want a Group strictly for Planner, but nothing else. Maybe you want a SharePoint site for a document management solution, that has no need for a Group at all Everything on and provisioned by default seems like too much to me...Invite who you want in group calendars
Good news! We've heard your feedback here on Tech Community as well as UserVoice that you really just want to: Put something on a shared group calendar Pick whomever you want to invite, which may not be the group itself. Over the next few days, you will have more options when managing yourgroup calendar:Just invite anyone you want.If you want to invite the entire group, simply add the group to the attendeeslist. This change gives a lot more flexibility to the group calendar surface: Invite no one: this is good for putting milestones on the calendar as a visual reminder that it's coming up. If you want to add a copy of it to your own personal calendar, you can "Add to my calendar". This is also great for a vacation calendar, where you can create a ? vacation ? event on the group calendar. "Brownbag-style events": A lunchtime learning session is typically not mandatory for attendees, but is required for the organizer and the presenter. Now, you can create an event on the group calendar and add specific individuals without adding the group itself to the attendees list. This way, those individuals will get an invite from the group, and group members can freely add the event to their calendars. This is also good if you want your vacation time on the group calendar, as well as your manager's calendar. Invite the group and anyone else: For group meetings where you'd like everyone in the group to attend and edit, this is best. This is particularly handy for recurring meetings that take place over the course of many months where the a single organizer may not be around for its entire desired lifetime (i.e., if someone goes on vacation or leaves the team). Across Outlook, not much is changing: In Outlook for Windows, removing the group from a group meeting will now, in fact, actually not sent the group an invitation. In the new Outlook on the web, we've updated the tooltips to match the functionality. In the classic Outlook on the web, we won't be supporting this update. In Outlook for iOS and Android, group calendaring is coming soon. 😉 Try it out, and let us know what you think! Cheers, Ethan[New!] Drag and drop conversations into groups
Good news! We're currently rolling out drag and drop for messages and conversations into groups in Outlook on the web first for First Release customers, then Standard release customers. It's much easier to explain with a GIF: Support for Outlook 2016 for Windows is coming soon--stay tuned. You can find the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/24e809db-70e1-45b7-8d54-efac7951dc95
