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Mark-Kashman
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Aug 31, 2016

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...
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Joe Fedorowicz
Iron Contributor
Sep 02, 2016
A question for the people in the know. How will the new Group Sites handle permissions. Will we be able to set different permission levels on a library basis, like on a SharePoint site? Will we be able to use the Group Admin level in our permissions, sort of like Site Owners - Site Members - Site Visitors? Thanks!
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techchirag
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Sep 02, 2016

Joe Fedorowicz Office 365 Groups was always based on SharePoint Site Collection (i.e. top level site with one library).

The integration now expands this site into a full-blown SharePoint site as we know it. Therefore, more site ownership controls such as permissions and create other business apps, etc. 

  • Joe Fedorowicz's avatar
    Joe Fedorowicz
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 02, 2016

    Yep, but we are now adding "Group Managers" into the mix. Are they going to live in the "Site Owners" by default? or will they just be members with permissions on the "Group" level?

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      techchirag
      MVP
      Sep 02, 2016

      Joe Fedorowicz currently the permission groups consist of owners, members and visitors. For each of the group, the group name permission object (i.e. test 3) resides in all of the above permission groups - screenshot below.

       

      Makes perfect sense to use at least the owners and members group. We'll have await further information as how this will pan out.

       

       

       

  • Brent Ellis's avatar
    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Sep 02, 2016
    Can an O365 group be deleted and leave the SharePoint site intact?

    And vice versa, can the SharePoint site be deleted and leave the O365 Group intact?

    I'd really like to see something where you can enable/disable features in an Group/SharePoint site

    e.g.
    - I want JUST a sharepoint site with no group
    - I want a group with no sharepoint site, and planner, and discussion turned on
    - I want a group with a sharepoint site
    - I want a group with planner turned off, and everything else turned off, just the discussion and document library
    etc
    • Tejas Mehta's avatar
      Tejas Mehta
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      Sep 02, 2016

      Hi Brent,

       

      Office 365 Groups weren't designed to have workload components removed, and as such you cannot keep the an orphaned SharePoint site after removing its parent Group (or vice versa).  There will still be ways to provision traditional SharePoint sites that are not connected to groups though.

       

      Can you comment further on the scenarios where you would want to have stripped down functionality (e.g. just conversations and files)?

       

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