All, We would really like to get O365 Groups exposed in Outlook for Mac as it is in Outlook for Windows. The lack of this feature makes deployment of Groups much more difficult in the executive levels of our company. (Keep in mind, without executive buy in, driving technology change is much harder).Any idea on timeline yet?Can we at least get an icon in Outlook for Mac's toolbar that launches the browers to the OWA page to ease the pain?

There should be a Mac Office section in these forums, rahter than having all the Mac topics spread throughout... just my .02. It was very helpful in the yammer-based community. Thanks,Rob

If you are in Mac Insider program, you should be geting the Outlook Mac build with Groups in a week or two. Feel free to drop me an email at amitgu@microsoft.com if you have set of users/customers waiting for it. We would like to get connected to get early feedback as we continue to iterate before going world wide.

Starting today, Office 365 Groups in Outlook for Mac will be rolling out gradually to Insider Fast over the new few days! With the first update, you can view your top 10 groups in the folder pane and read/compose/reply to group conversations. We are continually adding new capabilities, and you will see them in future updates. We’ve also created a group where people can ask questions and share feedback on the early bits of Groups on Mac Outlook. Please little r me with your email address if you want to join the group.

We are actively working on it. It is currently in Internal Dogfood stage and we will be opening it for Mac insider ring in Jan/Feb timeframe. As for public release it is still few months away. We will add this on our Public roadmap in new year.If you have a customer blocking usage of Groups because of MAC, we would like to engage early and may be bring them into early adopter if they are willing. Let us know. Thanks.

Our Team is working on bringing Groups into Outlook Mac client. At this point it is hard to give a more concrete timeline. We will provide an update on timeline through our roadmap in couple of Months.

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Krish Gali
Microsoft
Apr 18, 2017
We are excited to announce that we have started rolling out Groups experiences in Outlook for Mac. Here is a blog post with more information - https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/18/introducing-groups-in-outlook-for-mac-ios-and-android/
- Dean Stein
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 18, 2017
  Thanks Krish - glad to see this is coming.
  
  Any plans to allow working with Group files directly in Outlook for Mac?
  
  Also - noticed that you had "Send to OneNote" activated on your Outlook. Any idea when that will be released as well?
  
  Thanks.
  
  -Dean
  - Krish Gali
    Microsoft
    Apr 19, 2017
    Hi Dean,
    We are constantly working on adding new capabilities into Outlook for Mac and also to groups experiences in the app. We don't have much to share now about the specifics or timelines. Looking forward to hearing feedback about what we shipped yesterday once it becomes available for you.
    Thanks,
    Krish
TonyRedmond
MVP
Feb 02, 2017
I think an issue here is that the current Mac client is based on EWS (Exchange Web Services). Groups are not supported by EWS, so some work is required to enable Groups using another protocol (the Graph API perhaps). I bet there's some delay caused here.
Martijn Steffens
Copper Contributor
Dec 28, 2016
Hi,

so we're a couple of months further. No info about Groups in Outlook for Mac on the roadmap.
I hard to "sell" if a neat feature isn't availble on all clients.

In this blog post "Christie" mentions in the comment that it's on the roadmap for this year. https://blogs.office.com/2016/02/17/updates-to-office-365-groups/
- Amit Gupta (UC)
  Microsoft
  Dec 28, 2016
  We are actively working on it. It is currently in Internal Dogfood stage and we will be opening it for Mac insider ring in Jan/Feb timeframe. As for public release it is still few months away. We will add this on our Public roadmap in new year.
  If you have a customer blocking usage of Groups because of MAC, we would like to engage early and may be bring them into early adopter if they are willing. Let us know. Thanks.
  - Jonathan Oakden
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 22, 2017
    Any update here Amit? Nearing the end of Feb and its still not here on the fast insider track?
RobOK
Bronze Contributor
Aug 04, 2016
There should be a Mac Office section in these forums, rahter than having all the Mac topics spread throughout... just my .02. It was very helpful in the yammer-based community.

Thanks,
Rob
cfiessinger
Microsoft
Aug 02, 2016
yes we plan support Groups in Outlook for Mac in the future but do not have a date to share at this stage (fyi @Amit Gupta )
- Ethan Li
  Microsoft
  Feb 01, 2017
  Just a quick update: Supporting groups in Outlook for Mac is now on our roadmap: https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=#I-72294
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jul 17, 2016
There is nothing in the roadmap about Groups in Outlook for MAC...maybe cfiessinger can tell us if this is something that we will have in the future
- Amit Gupta (UC)
  Microsoft
  Aug 02, 2016
  Our Team is working on bringing Groups into Outlook Mac client. At this point it is hard to give a more concrete timeline. We will provide an update on timeline through our roadmap in couple of Months.
  - AZOMP
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 23, 2020
    Any update on this issue - I have an open case [Case #:20795784} and the tech does not seem to know how to help. We just purchased a MAC for our office and did not know we would not be able to send from our group.

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