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Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team
Ladislau Conceicao Hi, is it possible to let us know status of the Office Groups Guest access for Planner? I understand that its not part of current rollout so is this matter of weeks, months? just curious and also wanted to say big thanks for this long awaited feature.
best regards
JK
- http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=#I-38607 tracks planner support. It's in development.
- Guest Access. Bring it on! :)
- David Rosenthal
Microsoft
Standard pester question for you Ladislau Conceicao since Jim Van Eaton told us to, what is the current status of Guest Access and when can we expect to get our hands on it? :)
- Ladislau Conceicao
We are working to get Guest Access available to all customers with First Release option by September 1st. There are few things in our internal processes that we need to close on before we can confirm that date however, so the data might change.
Currently managing a programme for a flagship pharma authority in UK and DK market.. 37k public folders, 13TB shared folders, ~20TB Documentum / Lotus Notes and a dash of SP2003+2007content is being planned for migration into O365 - SPO + potentially Groups (expecting 60%+ of content to be archived on Azure BLOB storage)...
EA, Info Management & Records Management teams need to make a decision within a month on the new IA and architecture design principles. O365 Groups seem to lack 3rd party governance tools... any suggestions Ladislau Conceicao & team?- Ladislau Conceicao
I am not best person to answer on the 3rd party governance tools for Office 365 Groups, but I am looking for the right person to answer this.
What I can tell you right now is that migrating 37K public folders should not be a problem at all, since Exchange Online supports up to 100K folders and up to 50GB of total content in public folders in a single tenant.
- Prayer.
- Hi Boris, sounds like some of these requirements will justify more structured storage options using managed metadata etc. This doesn't normally exclude other areas of content being group and individual owned.
It's alerady been mentioned in the roadmap that groups will gain a feature for users to declare the classification of the group, and there will be some point of extensibility to allow a governance process to operate.
See roadmap at http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap#R-31831
No one knows everything about public folders... The cockroaches of Exchange persist because their workings are shrouded in mystery, even to those who have access to the code.
- Hi Jim, is there any news or schedule about when we will see expiry for groups, and how it will work. As we are adopting groups at a rapid place we really need to start planning for the disposition plans.
Expiry for groups is in planning. It's one several things that we are currently working on for Groups Lifecycle management.
Eric Zenz if he wants to add more specifics.
Short term, we're releasing group activity reports in the Report center so you can do some self-directed pruning of obviously inactive, unloved groups. Expect this in the next month.
Later this year, we'll release time-based expiry where owners can reattest the use of their group to extend expiry. We won't release expiry until we release deletion recovery - so you can recover a group that's been undesirably expired.
