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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.
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So eventually, group and teamsite will be the same thing?
Or will they have different features?
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
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.
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.
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.
Cool!
"To address this, we will increase the SharePoint Online site collection storage limit in the coming weeks from 1 TB to 25 TB."
- Gratz!
- cfiessingerAWESOME milestone! Fun times ahead at Ignite next month.
