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DL vs Group vs Yammer vs Teams
Does anyone know of any good blogs/documentation on where/when is the best use for the following
Teams
Office 365 Groups
Mail DL
Yammer
One Drive
Sharepoint Team Site
We have just migrated over from Google (Yea) and all our Google Docs got migrated to OneDrive, but the sharing capabilities isn't the same and the end users are not happy so I want to put out something to my end user community.
Thanks.
Here is a hight level guidance, as far as DL are concerned we belive groups in Outlook provides more value, see this article: https://aka.ms/whyupgradedls
Which tool to use? Depends on your workstyle
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There's a lot to like there, but I think your terminology "Feeds" for Yammer will be confusing.
I completely understand and appreciate your desire to differetiate "Outlook Groups" from "Yammer Groups" by not using "Groups" for both. Unfortunately, the "Feed" concept doesn't work natively in Yammer where those things are actually called "Groups" and where "feeds" such as the Discovery and Following feed on the home page mean something else.
- Fair. Personal preference, I guess. Unfortunately Microsoft's tendency to use general words in the language to describe their tools and functions means it's difficult to define these objects separately from similar functions. English lacks the vocabulary to describe all Microsoft suite of products accurately. They need to start their own, I think. XD
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
Matt for your "Outlook" box, I would lead with "Email" and not "Group" since people get confused with the "Office 365 Groups" object in Azure AD, see this diagram as well: https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/06/whats-new-in-office-365-groups-for-april-2017/
Here is the excelent blog:- https://blog.hyperfish.com/groups-in-outlook-vs-microsoft-teams-vs-sharepoint-online-vs-yammer-e20201ba7375#.w6bnj9vw8
- There is too much sprawl and overlap. The average user doesn't know what to use and the seasoned SharePoint admin is constantly trying to catch up with new feature changes. We need a replacement for the typical file share (think OneDrive for Groups) but that really doesn't exist today (please correct me if I am wrong). Office 365 Groups are too elaborate for file sharing and OneDrive for Business is based on an individual users activity. SharePoint libraries do fill the gap but I hate setting up sub sites JUST for file sharing. Anyway, in my opinion, Microsoft should really finish one "platform" then move to the "newest" things. Groups aren't done and already we have Teams which is really close to what we need but again still half way done.
Thanks for all the good info. I do have the whitepaper mentioned and still need to read plus, plus those graphics will also help.
I reworked some material from MS and used this wording.
- cfiessinger
Here is a hight level guidance, as far as DL are concerned we belive groups in Outlook provides more value, see this article: https://aka.ms/whyupgradedls
Which tool to use? Depends on your workstyle
- One of the best, though I havent checked if it is updated for Groups and Teams in a while:
http://www.2tolead.com/whitepaper-when-to-use-what-in-office-365/Does not look like they have updated that white paper for Teams or Yammer connected groups yet.
This shorter document by another company does have Teams in it but does not reflect Yammer connected groups either.
-Geoff
