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MicrosoftHello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team
Hi everyone! I am the Group Engineering Manager for O365 groups. I will be encouraging more of my engineers to participate in this forum to help answer questions and share solutions.
Let the fun begin!
Hi Jim Van Eaton - When I describe O365 Groups and how they related to other services that depend on O365 Groups I say that an O365 Group object is created in Azure Active Directory and this triggers the creation of an associated SharePoint site, Exchange Online Mailbox and an instance of Planner or at least a 'slot' for a future instance of Planner. I say that about Planner because of the differences in Planners created with an O365 Group (e.g. they are listed when you select Planner on the App Launcher) vs. Planners created on channels in MS Teams. My two questions are: 1) Does each O365 Group get a Planner or is the idea of a 'slot' for a Planner more accurate? 2) Is the O365 Groups team and the MS Teams team going to make the Planner experience consistent across O365 Groups and MS Teams? Thanks - Greg
Greetings, not sure where to how to post in the regular blog.
My questions does the next version of Office 365 (2019) bring GAL support to Outlook for Mac?
Bob,
Oulook 2016 does now support GAL access on Mac.
Open Outlook
Click the Contact Search button in the ribbon at the top.
(You can also use the address book icon
when composing an email)Make sure either All Folders or "Account Name" Directory is selected, and enter your search query.
Sorry I did not explain the concern correctly. When comparing Outlook Windows / Mac, the Windows version has always had the ability to open the contacts section or click on the address book icon and see the whole GAL if the user has the GAL as the default address book. The Mac, uses EWS (Exchange Web Service) You have to submit a query to get a result.
So my question should be, when will MS meld both products Outlook Windows and Mac so that they work the same at functionally. As our Org grows, it would sure be nice to be able to scroll down the address book and see all the company employees, conference room, groups etc.
This has been a request since at least Office 2011
Not sure if this group conversation is still active? There are suggestions in this group conversation to use Set-UnifiedGroup xxxx -CalendarMemberReadOnly however is appears that parameter does not currently work. I raised a support request and was advised it was not working as this time. Is this currently a known bug and being worked on or is the documentation wrong and the feature not implemented yet?
- Krish Gali
"CalendarMemberReadOnly" Functional description:
This functionality was built for education, where in a classroom students do not have the ability to move events or appointments that a teacher adds in the group. Any member can still create a meeting event and send to the group, however they cannot add an appointment in the group calendar or edit any existing meetings or appointments added by their teachers. Currently this feature works only in Outlook for Web (OWA) which is the prominent app that is used in education, especially by students.To set this property, run this command -
Set-UnifiedGroup <group_smtpaddress> -CalendarMemberReadOnly:<$true/$false>To view whether this property is properly set, use this command -
Get-UnifiedGroup <group_smtpaddress> -IncludeAllProperties | fl *calendar*Please let us know the use cases you would like to have this functionality for, and the clients you would like to have it, so it will help us prioritize future developments on this better.
The case for me that is most important is Education, I imagine I will have some companies with this need as well. Scenarios is Sales and Project teams where members should not ne anle to delete meetings only the manager and an assistant.
It's a while since the topic was discussed, but I believe that Microsoft withdrew the parameter to improve how it worked. As you note, the parameter has not yet reappeared.
EDIT: Please ignore. Restarting my Outlook web session made the popup menus on the three dots activate instead of opening the side bar.
Hello Jim Van Eaton,
With the new people "side panel" I cannot remove people from a Group. If i click on the three dots menu, the sidebar opens with the persons profile. There is no Remove command that I can see.
I am using Safari on MacOS.
Am I missing something?
- cfiessingertoo easy! thanks for sharing the update Rob and keep using Groups and share you feedback
- Jim Van Eaton
Great! :-)
Hi,
is it possible to create modern groups without an Exchange mailbox or calendar? I'd love to see the possibility to seperate different parts of modern groups.
k. r.
Alex
- Not possible, Groups is based on Azure AD, EXO and SPO and you need the three blocks to have them working
Kolvekar Loveleen RamachandraAntony - We are working on adding Soft Delete capability for Office365 Groups and this should be available soon. Ove - You can set "-CalendarMemberReadOnly" property on the group that will give only read access to members and they cannot delete any events. Please see the details on how you can do this at https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt238274(v=exchg.160).aspx . Gregory - The naming policy feature is currently available only for groups created from Exchange endpoints (i.e. OWA & Outlook). We are working on adding this capability across all workloads like Planner etc.Hi Jim,
Glad to have your team on board and working to demystify some of issues with Office365 Groups.
My question specifically is when can we expect soft delete functions from SPO to come into Groups? The ability for an accidental deletion to have serious repercussions is holding back some of my clients from adopting groups as readily as they were.
- cfiessingerAntony, "soft delete" is on our public roadmap and expected to arrive to a tenant near you in the fall timeframe: http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=#I-31837
We have disabled group creation by end users due to group creation getting out of hand and not following our governance model for sharepoint sites. This also enatialed disabling planner. Now I hear Yammer groups are going to create an office 365 group and a teamsite which I dont govern... WHY...When will we be able to see and manage the site collections created by office 365 groups?
- Jim Van Eaton
Jeremy Mazner will you give Robert Woods some commentary on this? Thanks
- Jeremy Mazner
catching up after vacation, I can respond to this:
>>When will we be able to see and manage the site collections created by office 365 groups?
right now! You can use SharePoint Online PowerShell commands Get-SPOSite and Set-SPOSite to see any site, including those created as part of a group. The actions on these sites are limited today to only setting storage, because other options (owners, guest policy, delete/un-delete) are controlled by the group object in AAD.
We are working on also making these sites appear in the SharePoint Tenant Admin web interface.
Always happy for feedback on how we can improve manageability!
Robert, I am not in control of our groups or decisions, but the governance is something I worry about. We do have the Planner enabled which does give a back door to create a group. We are on a University campus and if every student creates a Planner for each of their courses that could be as many as 8 planner/groups/file storage/calendars/OneNote's created. That is assuming they don't also create one for other activities they are involved in. If you conservatively say 500 students create just 4 planners, that is 2000 planners inthe first year alone.
- Jim Van EatonI would love to see your students use Planner to that extent! How can we help make that happen. :-)
I am curious to know if there will be a possibility to have a group admin create events that members can´t delete. Today are these events possible to be deleted by members. I have schools that see a benefit for class schedules with groups.
Or do you have any better solution?
Best regards, Ove
Hi, we'd like a way to hide, by default, all O365 groups from our GAL. We want users to be able to create groups (both directly and/or via Planner), so controling/locking down that aspect doesn't solve the problem. Currently, we're having to run a Powershell script at regular, daily intervals to hide O365 groups.
Any advice welcomed!
Thanks,
Mike.
+ 1 on setting a default to hide group email addresses from the gal by default. we are in the exact same boat.
Although you can't set a default to have Office 365 Groups hidden from the GAL, it's easy to do in PowerShell:
[PS] Get-UnifiedGroup | Set-UnifiedGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $True
Voila! All groups will now be hidden. They can still be used, buit they will be hidden.
Not that I would want this to happen...
