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Jim Van Eaton
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Jul 21, 2016

Hello 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...
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Jim Van Eaton's avatar
Jim Van Eaton
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Jul 21, 2016
Fabulous.... The first like I get is from my EM Ladislau Conceicao. :-) BTW - He owns Guest Access, Shared Mailboxes and knows everything about Public Folders so please pester him. :-)
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Boris Kapitanovic
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Jul 23, 2016

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's avatar
    Ladislau Conceicao
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    Aug 02, 2016

    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.

  • Dennis Wilson's avatar
    Dennis Wilson
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    Jul 28, 2016
    Prayer.
  • Steven Collier's avatar
    Steven Collier
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    Jul 24, 2016
    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
  • Allan Bau Madsen's avatar
    Allan Bau Madsen
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    Jul 23, 2016
    Hi Boris

    At LEGO we are looking at the Danish MS partner ProAvtive who has a tool WorkSpaces that looks to be a tool for the job when it comes to governance on O365 Groups, Sites and even Yammer Groups.

    We are in the process of implementing it so no real experience yet. But it looks promising.
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      Aug 30, 2016

      Hi Allan,

       

      I would love to hear more once you have implemented the tool and used it more.

       

      Many thanks

    • Eric Zenz's avatar
      Eric Zenz
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      Aug 03, 2016

      Allan Bau Madsen - what governance features did you need to jump to ProActive for - especially related to Groups? 

       

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