Forum Discussion
DL vs Group vs Yammer vs Teams
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
I put together an infographic to cover it. A part of it is below, but review http://icsh.pt/O365groups.
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/
- Also, explain to me how Skype has any interaction with Groups? I've seen none and your graphic doesn't actually show any real functional connection to Office 365 Groups. An article or two would be great to understand that.
- cfiessingerSince Office 365 Groups are objects in your global address list, you can initiate an ad-hoc IM or call with all the members using Skype for Business (we demoed this at Ignite 2015).
- I'll think about that. The fact that it's more than just email makes calling it "Outlook email" not accurate.
The issue at hand, though, with all due respect, is these are your terms. In fact, your mobile app is, verbatim, "Outlook Groups". If the parlance in the systems were clearer, so too would be the training.
We users are running with your language, even if there aren't enough words in it to correctly describe the entities.- cfiessingerGoing forward we refer to groups in Outlook, see this recent blog post about adding groups in Outlook to our iOS & Android app: https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/18/introducing-groups-in-outlook-for-mac-ios-and-android/
