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Experiences "migrating" to an O365 Group
So, I am starting to "migrate" the particular team that I work for over to Groups (that means from our existing SharePoint site, existing Yammer group, existing mailboxes, etc). Wanted to share the ...
Thanks for sharing this Brent. It's really useful to see the experince of people and organisations trying to implement something new and the challenge of getting users onboard and adopting the new platform.
As others have said, 'SharePoint Lite' has its limitations when used with Groups or Teams. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft builds on this and how it integrates with both Groups and Teams. Lots of organisations have invested heavily in building and designing SharePoint intranets. Now with 'SharePoint Lite' a lot of that work is being undermined and the users suffer as a result by getting lost in UI and navigation.
- Update on further testing with the calendar, not quite as bad my first testing indicated, but here is exactly how it works:
User A adds a calendar entry to Group X
If User B is subscribed to receive notifications for that Group X, they will receive a MEETING INVITATION in their personal inbox, as well as a NOTIFICATION in the Group inbox that says a new entry has been created (with the option to add it to their personal calendar).
If User C is NOT subscribed to receive notifications, the will receive a NOTIFICATION only in the Group inbox that says a new entry has been created (with the option to add it to their personal calendar).
So bottom line, this will probably drive users away from "subscribing" to groups until they implement some notification changes.
