Forum Discussion
Office 365 Groups - Active Groups versus All 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
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...
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!
Hi, this thread surfaced a question I have about group activity. I thought I read somewhere that activity was defined by uploading files but now that I see this conversation I see this might be different, is that correct?
Activity on that page is defined strictly in terms of conversation activity.
Thanks!
- David Rosenthal
Microsoft
Blake T Walsh If this is the first signs of what will become the Expiry Policy features we've all seen mentioned, I can't possibly stress how incredibly important it is for you to go deeper than simply the email based conversations as the signal of activity/life. I probably have thousands of Groups now in my org that have never sent a single email, because they are using Microsoft Teams as their conversation vehicle.
I've come across some Groups who talk to each other in the description boxes of their Planner tasks...
There are tons of flavors out there around how this stuff is used, and that is exactly what Microsoft has been advertising. Empower your users, let them use things how they want to! Please don't deploy a feature that ignores that guidance and can only be taken advantage of if you're using Groups in this one specific way... :)
