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What is the future of Groups and SharePoint Team sites?
Thank you, John. So what I understand from what you've said in your reply is that SharePoint will eventually become Groups, but with retention of some of the formatting? If so, is there any idea when this transition might occur?
SharePoint is not going anywhere. It provides the file storage functionality for many other services, in fact MS recently announced that there will be a SP 2019 version issued for on-premises deployment.
Groups contain people/accounts and SharePoint is one of many apps that are linked to these Groups. These Groups have many names (modern groups, unified groups, and Azure AD Groups) which causes a lot of confusion.
Yammer groups are now linked to the O365 groups. Files saved in Yammer will start to be automatically saved to SharePoint in the near future
MS Teams uses SharePoint as its primary method for file storage
Power BI uses O365 groups to control who can use its dashboards and other items
you may find this infographic from Deleted helpful, http://icansharepoint.com/everyday-guide-office-365-groups/