Forum Discussion
Solved
Office 365 Groups - Active Groups versus All Groups
When searching Office Groups in OWA, a distinction is made between "Active Groups" and "All Groups". What officially defines an Active Group? I can guess what it means, but I would like to know th...
- Hi there,
An "active group" on that page is defined merely as a group that has had some sort of conversations activity in the past 30 days. It's a binary state, meaning that in that view there is not a notion of groups that are "more active" than others.
This heuristic helps identify groups that still have some sort of conversation happening in them, as sometimes groups stop seeing usage or people create lots of test groups to try things out and don't take the time to go back and clean them out.
Hope this helps!
Blake, PM @ Office 365 Groups
Hi there,
An "active group" on that page is defined merely as a group that has had some sort of conversations activity in the past 30 days. It's a binary state, meaning that in that view there is not a notion of groups that are "more active" than others.
This heuristic helps identify groups that still have some sort of conversation happening in them, as sometimes groups stop seeing usage or people create lots of test groups to try things out and don't take the time to go back and clean them out.
Hope this helps!
Blake, PM @ Office 365 Groups
An "active group" on that page is defined merely as a group that has had some sort of conversations activity in the past 30 days. It's a binary state, meaning that in that view there is not a notion of groups that are "more active" than others.
This heuristic helps identify groups that still have some sort of conversation happening in them, as sometimes groups stop seeing usage or people create lots of test groups to try things out and don't take the time to go back and clean them out.
Hope this helps!
Blake, PM @ Office 365 Groups
Thanks Blake for the info!
Conversations is in my opinion a bit limited for an Office Groups as document movement, planner, etc are also usefull activities. But now I know how to explain this metric to the rest of the world.
Kind regards,
Mark
100% agree that conversation activity provides a limited signal, but at least it is a signal... and this is only for Outlook groups, not Yammer groups.
I guess it might be quite an overhead to make multiple calls to the Graph to retrieve all possible signs of life in a group from calendar, conversations, plan, team, Power BI, or document activity...
- Agreed - there is a lot more activity that can happen around groups than just conversations (and there is as you mention the Yammer special-casing that this doesn't capture). This is something that we are looking at from a more holistic perspective going forward, but don't have an answer for as of yet - and for many groups, their "liveliness" generally maps to the conversation activity.
As for the documentation side of things, there will be a sweep across a number of pages and articles in the near future that should catch this.
Thanks!
- It really helps @Blake!!!! Do you have this documented somewhere?
