Is this a usage for Groups?

I am new here so please forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong place, or in the wrong way. I just want to be accepted by the cool kids! Anyway, some background and then the question. We w...

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darrellaas
Aug 19, 2016
The use case is good. A project can use a Group and members will benefit from a central place to store files, notes, have conversations, set events in a shared calendar - among other Group experiences.
Your main limitation as you rightly identified will be the number of Groups you create. Each will have a SharePoint Site Collection for the files. There is a limit of the number of Site Collections you can create in SharePoint Online. It's a high number. 500,000 per tenant. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-8f34ff47-b749-408b-abc0-b605e1f6d498

If you're creating 1000 projects a year, you should be ok for the next 500 years ;)

darrellaas

MVP

Aug 19, 2016

The use case is good. A project can use a Group and members will benefit from a central place to store files, notes, have conversations, set events in a shared calendar - among other Group experiences.
Your main limitation as you rightly identified will be the number of Groups you create. Each will have a SharePoint Site Collection for the files. There is a limit of the number of Site Collections you can create in SharePoint Online. It's a high number. 500,000 per tenant. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-8f34ff47-b749-408b-abc0-b605e1f6d498

If you're creating 1000 projects a year, you should be ok for the next 500 years ;)

Bill Dodson

Copper Contributor

Aug 19, 2016

That should work. I plan to retire in the next 290 years or so.

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Is this a usage for Groups?