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Mark-Kashman
Aug 31, 2016Former Employee
ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
Today marks the beginning of bringing the full power of SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, with additional benefits to SharePoint Online all up! New and existing groups will get modern team sites, whic...
Liesha Eggink
Sep 01, 2016Copper Contributor
Hi, This sounds great! But I'd love to get some steer from Microsoft about what they see the purposes of Team Sites vs Groups are. It seems like they are getting closer and closer together in functionality. Some examples of when you see each being used would be great.
LincolnDeMaris
Microsoft
Sep 01, 2016The purpose of groups is for getting work done together. SharePoint is one of the tools the group has. Outlook for mails, calendar for calendar, planner for tasks, SharePoint for files, pages, lists, apps, Flows, PowerApps, etc.