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MicrosoftAbility to connect existing SharePoint team sites to Office 365 Groups is coming later this year
Hi all - yes our plan is to provide the ability to connect only root site collections to new Office 365 Groups. We've considered enabling subsite-to-group connections, but there are enough gotchas both architecturally as well as from a design standpoint in delivering an experience that is comprehensible to most humans. One example is that when we start rolling out classification-based policy (e.g. Confidential classification equates to group guests being disabled, SharePoint external sharing turned off, etc. - this is just an example for discussion), those policies apply at the site collection container level. If we enabled subsite connection to groups, we would have to deal with site parent-child policy conflicts, inheritance-based permissions, etc. Not saying it's impossible but cleary stands in the way of shipping an experience sooner.
Having looked at all site collections in the service, the vast majority are flat (i.e. no subwebs), for which this experience should work seamlessly. That said, we acknowledge that there are some very active site collections with subsite hierarchies. For these subwebs, there are a couple of paths to get to 'modern'. One is a migration effort from subsite to root site collection, and then connecting the collection to a new group with the feature described in this thread. The other, is a 'modernize this site' type of experience that brings the classic subsite to the modern experiences without a group connection. This is also a body of work we are investing in and will share additional details in the future.
Hope this helps to clarify. We'll definitely be talking more about this in the coming months as we make progress on the feature.
Thanks
That's what we're waiting for.
Note that it will only work for sites, not webs / sub-sites ...
https://blogs.ibs.com/2017/10/17/connecting-existing-sites-to-office-365-groups-kind-of/
MicrosoftHi all! We are absolutely working on a feature that will connect an existing classic team site to a new Office 365 Group. We had a session at Ignite that covers the mechanics in more detail - you can have a look at this session: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/Microsoft-Ignite-Orlando-2017/BRK2434 and the 'groupify' portion starts at around the 19:13 mark of the video.
I don't believe you can do the main site as a 365 Group. Only the top-level sites, i.e. the ones in /teams or /sites can be converted.
Group-connection can be performed for top-level site collections only. You cannot connect subsites to Office 365 groups.
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/groupify/groupify-overview
do you know if there's a workaround or solution to get my main domain connected to an o365 group?
- This option is not available for all the templates available for classic SPO sites
is this live yet?
I'm new to o365, but my main domain does not have that "Connect to O365 Group" as an option yet. however, some of my newer team sites do have that option.
So I was just wondering how to get my primary main domain (ex: mycompany.sharepoint.com) to have that option to connect to an O365 group, for the sake of having Teams show those sharepoint files in the Files tab.
Mmm, delayed three times, to be delivered in two chunks, and with a PnP (unsupported, open-source, if it works it works, but if it doesn't you're on your own in the forums) preparation scanner.
Why do I get these two familiar "Microsoft v.01 product" feelings? ...
(1) Microsoft really don't want to own it.
(2) An overwhelming urge to invite you and everyone else to go first in running it on your production "classic" sites and let me know how it goes - and then I might touch it with a barge pole.
So it's now Q2, rather than April.
Which means end of June, followed by an announcement that it's slipped again.
- cfiessinger
Please see this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-connect-to-office365-group
- cfiessinger
Tejas Mehta shared the following timeline at Ignite: https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/59122 "early 2018"
- I usually post here and on twitter to gather more attention and a faster response. But I agree, this was announced eons ago and still nothing, plus I've been planning my role out of Groups contingent on this functionality.
- My thoughts exactly.
- Yes, it has been there some time (added in June last year) but apparently it has been updated yesterday and now the ETA is Q1 CY2018 so fingers crossed! :) It would be nice to hear some insights from the product group here in the tech community as this should be place where IT experts and customers could get closer to the product group and development, and not just follow general road map items.
Yes I know that. Most of the Team Sites we use are separate Site Collections with just few having subwebs (subsites).
Not sure if it helps but it seems that the item is on the Office 365 roadmap under the name 'SharePoint: connect an existing site to a new Office 365 group' and currently under development. You can find the roadmap here: https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-roadmap?filters=%26freeformsearch=connect%20an%20existing%20site%20to%20a%20new%20Office%20365%20group
- Hey Teemu, are they all separate site collections? Just wanted to make sure you know that the proposed solution is only for site collections and cannot be applied to subsites.
Yesterday it was eight months since this was announced, how long do we need to wait Tejas Mehta and cfiessinger? We have hundreds of classic Team Sites which we would like to modernize to get them smoothly connected with Teams and Planner.
Hi,
When exactly is this being rolled out? It was announced during Ignite in September. It's been 3.5 months with still no estimate date when to be rolled out?
I have been planning my rollouts based on this announcement to avoid migrating sites.
I'd really appreciate a more SMART goal, with specifics as to when we can expect this to be usable.
- Great news.
When can we expect this feature to be rolled out.
I read "later this year" on https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/05/16/new-sharepoint-and-onedrive-capabilities-accelerate-your-digital-transformation-2/ but nothing yet as of today right?
I'm planning to write some internal policy and I need to know when this can be expected to be available.
Thanks - No, ability to add a Group to classic SPO sites means to add it to site collections...there are not plans to add Groups to subsites
An existing team site if it is a subsite of a site collection? Tejas Mehta
