Forum Discussion
ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
what will the groups app give us over the sharepoint app or the onedriveforbusiness app and why do I have to have 3 different apps for the same things?
Good question! Robert Woods
Not everything is created from SharePoint and more often OneDrive tends to be a starting point for a document lifecycle and eventually will end up in a SharePoint team site or even in Groups! Overall for me they are the endpoints to get to the information relevant to me.
I've highlighted the key differentiators between each of the apps.
OneDrive app
- lets you work with your personal (OneDrive) and work files (OneDrive For Business)
- access all your OneDrive files and files shared with you
SharePoint App
- access to intranet
- quick access to your team sites and the people you work with
- to see the site activity, sites you frequently visit and the sites you follow
- share a site (subject to permissions)
- access to recent and popular files spreasd across multiple document libraries
Outlook Groups (Office 365 Groups) App:
- Easily participate in group email conversations
- Work together using the shared team OneNote's notebook
- Discover and join Office 365 Groups relevant to you
Hope this helps.
techchirag These apps should all be combined into one. There is no way my end users can manage having 3 different apps for basically the same functionality.