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The quick way for users to understand O365: The Periodic Table of Office 365
- Thanks for your continued contributions to the community, Matt! Great job; we have referred to this many times in the past few months.
Where does groups fit into this table? or does it? I am building a governance plan with my team and going through each of the apps with them and I realised that groups was not mentioned on here. I know it is not an app in its own right (except on mobile devices) but it does need to be considered with the Office 365 eco system.
Hi Deleted, try this infographic I made for Groups. It's a confusing topic for sure and I tried to distill it down to a digestible format. Let me know if that helps. http://icsh.pt/O365groups
Office 365 Groups are a crucial component of Office 365 underpinning many services as well as a function in their own right and arguably the successor to Exchange Distribution Lists:
You can see how https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/office-365-groups for example and more in general https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-about-Office-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2. Definitely well worth covering groups in your governance plan, for example, looking at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-who-can-create-office-365-groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618, how they are managed and whether the capabilities of https://www.petri.com/aad-licensing-groups-teams could be beneficial, as that provides a lot of extra features for groups management.
These presentations may be worth checking out as well:
- I really enjoy reading all the great material you produce Matt, thanks a lot for this!
Glad you find it useful, Lisa MARTINEZ. :)
