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Former Employee

Sep 08, 2016

Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups!

Today, we announced the new guest access feature for Office 365 Groups, the group membership service that provides a single identity for teams in Office 365. The new guest access feature gives you th...

David Slight

Iron Contributor

Sep 13, 2016

These direct links work for my group members - of course you don't have an invite so they won't work for you :-) so you need https://TENANTNAME.sharepoint.com/sites/GROUPNAME

Sharepoint team site for the group is: https://davidslight.sharepoint.com/sites/CAF/SitePages/Home.aspx

Document library for the group is: https://davidslight.sharepoint.com/sites/CAF

Discover and a directory of sites also works in Outlook client quite nicely try Browse Groups.

Would be nice if the Group Description field also was part of the Group listing ...

Barry Cohen

Copper Contributor

Sep 13, 2016

Thanks for the replies. Especially the assuarance that navigation is being looked at as an important update.

David, thanks for reminding me of the path statement. I may be able to get my users to understand. The users in question are salespersons for whom curiosity about and actually investing energy in using the software tools we have made available to them is severely limited.

For the sales people, if these links, such as https://TENANTNAME.sharepoint.com/sites/GROUPNAME, don't appear magically on the devices, they don't want to bother and will continue to use other, non-collaborative means.

OTOH, if I can get them to use Groups in Outlook, we might get somewhere :)