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Kady Dundas
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Aug 31, 2016

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...
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주현 김's avatar
주현 김
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Sep 01, 2016

So eventually, group and teamsite will be the same thing?

 

Or will they have different features?

  • cfiessinger's avatar
    cfiessinger
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    Sep 02, 2016

    They are not the same! Office 365 Groups are Azure AD objects and provides cross-application group membership to enable teams to easily collaborate in their favorite apps: Outlook, Planner, Power BI, Skype for Business, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM etc.

  • Clint Lechner's avatar
    Clint Lechner
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 01, 2016

    Teamsites are (or will be) PART of the Group experience. Groups are really the container for a variety of products/features that one set of securely access people can access -- Planner, Files, Notebook, Teamsites, Calendar, etc.

    • 주현 김's avatar
      주현 김
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 01, 2016

      Got it. That makes sense.

       

      But remaining questions is... Will group file and teamsite library different? or integrated?

       

      teamsite library is PART of teamsite, and teamsite is PART of group.

       

      so... group files and teamsite library are not in same hierarchy.

      • darrellaas's avatar
        darrellaas
        MVP
        Sep 01, 2016
        Good news. This from Mark-Kashman.
        Groups Files [doc library] and the default Team Site library ["Shared documents" in the top level site of the Site Collection] will be one and the Sam library.
        In other words, you will access the same doc library by using Group Files as you will through the top level Team Site Shared documents library.
        https://twitter.com/mkashman/status/771104952701693952

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