Forum Discussion
How do large corporations handle MS groups integration with SPO?
My company has around 6,500 people, and we are migrating to SPO. One challenge, among many, is that we are switching form Publishing pages to Communications for the top level department sites for the Intranet.
Some of our Dept Sites, (like HR), have calendars on them. In SPO it looks like I need to link the calendars to a MS Group, which is fine for the Team site, (HR will have a separate Teams site for just the HR folks), but they also want to publish a calendar of important dates for the whole company on the top level HR communications page.
Since there is no way anyone is going to manually add the whole company to a MS Team, (since you can't have nested AD or AAD Groups), I can't see this working for us.
Is there a better way to have a basic calendar app in SPO for reading by the whole company?
All-staff calendars are a perennial issue that comes up a lot. There's not a great way to get a calendar-looking view in modern without groups - Microsoft is trying to push people to use the Events web part instead, which stores things in a classic calendar list on the back end but looks shiny on the front end. Honestly this is kind of a nice approach most of the time, because it filters down to just the upcoming events automatically, but some people REALLY want it to look like a calendar.
I don't know of a "best" way around things - you could design a Power App I guess, but that seems like overkill. I have also seen people embed Smartsheet calendars with the embed web part as a workaround.
