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Hybrid deployment and on-prem Office Group Ownership
cfiessinger We are in the same situation. We are ready to give access to OneDrive and SharePoint Online and would like to leverage groups features but mailboxes are not migrated to O365 and the Exchange administrators are not ready for that.
We can start to assign licenses, that is not the issue. Exchange owners still need to figure out all the impacts of moving mailboxes on the mail retentions, shared mailboxes, public folders...
I found that, if we enable Teams on a group, members can be managed in the Teams UI. It's a workaround but some other features are missing or links lead to error pages.
Any way to start using Groups while doing a gradual migration of mailboxes or it's a big bang thing?
Thanks
Have the same use case with 30K users and a longer term effort to move mailboxes but all collab in o365. With the exchange online license disabled and no mailbox, users can't add folks to the group without using planner or the mobile app which have been the two work arounds we've found. Especially with the link from team sites to conversations this may be a worse experiance
Yes, the lack of access to the shared mailbox components (discussion threads, calendar, tasks) are also major inhibitors to making the groups a feature to promote. Instead I have departments actively pursuing various third party products like HighQ, where they don't need their email on the cloud to collaborate...
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
Great arguments to accelerate the transition to Office 365 then :)
Really, it's giving our various departments great arguements that "Microsoft's product is not polished" and justifying their alternatives.
- cfiessinger
Not sure I understand your comment, Office 365 Groups are natively integrated will all key apps in O365: Outlook, SharePoint, Planner, OneNote, Skype for Business, Power BI and soon Yammer.
