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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.
Hello, Brent - I was wondering how you guys are managing governance of Group. I've few questions if you can answer
1. Since all the group site is a Site Collection, Is there any central location from where we can see list of all the Groups
2. How can we deploy predefined template (list/library/web part) so it is available by default to all groups
3. Is there any we can setup default template for Groups?
Thanks,
Satish
I am looking at doing the reverse.
We launched with a Group - but would prefer to convert this to a SharePoint Team site.
Is anyone aware of this being an option?- What do you mean to convert to a SharePoint Team site? As part of the Group you already have a SPO Site (A modern one) and AFAIK, there is no way to delete the Group and keep the site
- Hello Juan,
Again I can't agree with you :-) Your theory with my practice do not match :-) I've got SP group site originally created as should be with a group, but now group is deleted. Unfortunately button "group Conversation" is still on the site, not working and there is no way to assign another group.
regards
Slawomir
