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Iron Contributor

May 17, 2017

Full SharePoint vs. O365 Group Site

Hi, There are still some gaps between what you can do with a standalone SharePoint site and what you can do with an O365 site. One that stands-out as the most critical is security management....

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Anonymous

May 18, 2017

the current info is maybe in what to use when. But main difference.

Outlook mailbox

calender

Onenote default in group

Planner default in groep

but security wise it is not so management of a group is not as big and no subsites..

Jorge Carvalho

Iron Contributor

May 19, 2017

Thanks Paul.

I'm looking specifically for the differences in SharePoint only.

The SharePoint site collection that is created with a new group has a subset of the full sharepoint site collection features.

I've mentioned permissions, but are there site collection features or site features that we cannot use in in a Group site? Maybe some web parts that are inaccessible? Any restrictions on theming or workflows ?...

I'm guessing the gap varies between first release tenants, first release users, different roll-out schedules, and that makes it hard for anyone in the community to keep a tally.

Even if not entirely accurate, it would be a great help to have a checklist against which to match our tenancy.

Cheers,

Pieter Veenstra
MVP
May 19, 2017
There is a great tool available to check your Secure Score in Office 365

https://securescore.office.com/

This will give you an overall score and idea on how well configured your office 365 site is.
It also tells you what you should do to imporve your score.

Just to give you an idea my development tenant is giving me the 75 out of 344 score: