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Convert SharePoint Team site to Office Group
Dear Experts, is there a way to extend existing SharePoint team sites so they become Office 365 groups? There is already a migration option for distribution list but I suspect some customers rath...
The option to groupify an existing classic team site has been promised by MS.
No ETA though..
We are doing this manually at the moment (and taking the opportunity to clean up some other spilled milk at the same time).
We have self-service Group creation turned off, and we invested in ShareGate to migrate content from existing sharepoint sites into Group sharepoint sites. We are implementing Groups only for formal workgroups and organizational units at the moment.
It is greatly helping with our adoption to just move the content where it needs to go as opposed to waiting in limbo. Its a bit more manual work at the moment, by my time is less valuable than groups adoption success at this point in time.
Rumor has it if they are going to "groupify" sites, it would only be at the site collection level. So if you like us, we created a site collection called "Workgroups", and have subsites for each major workgroup. So in this case, it doesnt make sense to have a Group connected to the "Workgroups" site. We did this all of the place (cause remember with Information Architecture used to be a good thing?).
I suspect the complexity in what and how to "groupify" will get messy.
We have self-service Group creation turned off, and we invested in ShareGate to migrate content from existing sharepoint sites into Group sharepoint sites. We are implementing Groups only for formal workgroups and organizational units at the moment.
It is greatly helping with our adoption to just move the content where it needs to go as opposed to waiting in limbo. Its a bit more manual work at the moment, by my time is less valuable than groups adoption success at this point in time.
Rumor has it if they are going to "groupify" sites, it would only be at the site collection level. So if you like us, we created a site collection called "Workgroups", and have subsites for each major workgroup. So in this case, it doesnt make sense to have a Group connected to the "Workgroups" site. We did this all of the place (cause remember with Information Architecture used to be a good thing?).
I suspect the complexity in what and how to "groupify" will get messy.
Before you migrate anything manualy or automaticaly I suggest you to make yourself familiar with Group Sites