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ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
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.
First, I'd say the main differrence in how to think about it is that it is not Groups vs Team, it's Office 365 + the full power of a SharePoint Online team site. Groups is the list of members, and SharePoint is where they get work done - right alongside the ability for the group to have a shared inbox and calendar, a team notebook, group Skype ("Meet now"), etc. SharePoint Online team sites have always contributed the default document library for the group, "Files." And with this update, we more fully expose all SharePoint capabilities within the same site collection.