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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 get a shared inbox, calendar, OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management—and now, a full-powered SharePoint team site.
The integration of O365 Groups and 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.
- No news...roll out seems to be a little bit slow :-)...be patiente
I came back from vacation today and saw that in my Group view (in OWA) that I now have "Site" as a link. But when I click on it - it still only goes to the Files/Document Library - with no option to see the rest of the Site - like a Home page. See my pics attached.
Thoughts? What am I missing?
Jill
Jill, you missed nothing, same is with me - all such links forward on Group OneDrive. I guess the deployment is still "in progress"
- Mid Oct. and I haven't seen it in my tenant yet, just wondering, has anyone seen the update?
Are there any updates on this release for FR, now that Ignite is about to wrap up?
We're on full tenant FR, and I we haven't received neither the Modern Pages nor the Group/Teamsite Integration.
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
It's still being rolled out, thanks for your patience. Until then see this demo I gave this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9KJq_5BP8&feature=youtu.be
One thing I'm not sure on is when this comes online does it mean there is now no difference between a Team site created by a Group and one created within SharePoint? Would all the navigation options etc be the same.
Also is a normal intranet site meerly a public group without a fixed list of members?
This new feature is not showing to my tenant yet, even it is set to first release.
Question;
We have "Team" group, and basic sharepoint site "Team site".
If those are going to be integrated as one, what whould be the name?
"Team" group gets it's sharepoint site named "Team",
and "Team site" sharepoint site gets it's group named "Team site"?
And let's say, I have same name group and site, like "Idea" group, and "Idea" site.
Will they merged into same one? or having different naming policy?
little bit confusing here.
- The group is exposing it's existing teamsite features, the sites name follows the name of the group. This feature doesn't merge existing SharePoint sites with existing groups.
- Modern team sites are being rolled out gradually...and I'm pretty sure the kind of "merge" you are describing is not going to happen / be provided
jcgonzalezmartin - yes I can understand now how that would not be feasible to "retro-fit" existing groups. Now I'm just trying to find an "identifiier" that will indicate that we have the new feature - ie something I can have our IT Team look for in the Admin Portal. Right now - I just keep trying to add a group - and see if I get the new Team Site. I'm just a Project Mgr/Power User - I don't have the technical background - so apologize if my questions seems stupid or silly.
Thanks for your reply. I'll just keep reading and watching for posts on the subject.
Jill
I am the owner of my new group. Every time I click Add an app, I get redirected to my group Document Library. Clicking Site Contents also leads me back to the Document Library. Are there features not enabled yet?
- cfiessingerLauren this feature is still being rolled out to first release customers.
Christophe, are you saying I'm not on new groups yet? My org is a first release customer. How would I know if I am working with new groups?
How does navigation work between groups and team sites?
For example how does a member of groups A, B or C navigate to the team site D and back? As I understand it each one is it's own site collection and so not necessarily related.
Can global navigation schemes be implemented that link group sites to team sites?
- IMHO, Microsoft has still to explain/disclose their approach to may stuff such this global navigation experience that I'm afraid is not being cooked yet...IMHO the approach to navigate between Groups is just by using the new SharePoint landing page
- But still no guest access?
- cfiessingerAnnounced today: Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/08/introducing-guest-access-for-office-365-groups/
Guest Access is coming soon - keep your eyes on Office Blogs!
- No yet, it's coming...the bad news are that there is, for now, no ETA defined
- Do you know if there is an ETA yet? With unlimited space for each one drive employee who could then share out folders it would be nice to have more space not owned by an employee.
- I can't figure out if the storage limit means just that you can go beyond the free 1TB per tenant, or if they're expanding the free storage per tenant to 25TB. Anyone have insight?
- The storage limit means that a single site collection in SPO can store up to 25 TB. It does not means, at least for now, that the free storage is going to be increased from 1 TB to 25 TB
- So what happens when I've already created a group and had a Team Site created for us (for the same group of people)? Do I need to re-do everything?
- IMHO, It will receive all the stuff that is part of modern team sites
