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The quick way for users to understand O365: The Periodic Table of Office 365
I consider myself a SharePoint geek, but I play more and more in the larger Office 365 (O365) sphere these days. In doing so, I’ve noticed that O365 as a concept is difficult to explain… both to IT folks and the everyday workers who are expected to use it.
So I put together a new infographic that (hopefully) provides a quick intro to O365, its apps, and how they're all related. Good for both the IT crowd and lines of business. Check out my https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyday-intro-office-365-matt-wade below.
[http://periodictableofoffice365.azureedge.net/#/office365/en]
- Thanks for your continued contributions to the community, Matt! Great job; we have referred to this many times in the past few months.
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Where does groups fit into this table? or does it? I am building a governance plan with my team and going through each of the apps with them and I realised that groups was not mentioned on here. I know it is not an app in its own right (except on mobile devices) but it does need to be considered with the Office 365 eco system.
Office 365 Groups are a crucial component of Office 365 underpinning many services as well as a function in their own right and arguably the successor to Exchange Distribution Lists:
You can see how https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/office-365-groups for example and more in general https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-about-Office-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2. Definitely well worth covering groups in your governance plan, for example, looking at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-who-can-create-office-365-groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618, how they are managed and whether the capabilities of https://www.petri.com/aad-licensing-groups-teams could be beneficial, as that provides a lot of extra features for groups management.
These presentations may be worth checking out as well:
- I really enjoy reading all the great material you produce Matt, thanks a lot for this!
- Whahoou!!!! Thank's
- Thanks for your continued contributions to the community, Matt! Great job; we have referred to this many times in the past few months.
Deleted has subsequently updated the graphic to include Forms. He keeps the graphic up to date at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyday-intro-office-365-matt-wade. He also has an infographic about Office 365 Groups is at http://icansharepoint.com/everyday-guide-office-365-groups/.
The caption for Forms, "code free forms", I feel isn't very explanatory, especially to regular end users. I think a better caption for it would be "Surveys, Quizes, and Polls".
Michael Blumenthal Yeah, I've considered that and am still debating a change in the upcoming next version. To play devil's advocate, the product is called Microsoft Forms.
True, but "code free forms" equally well described PowerApps, does it not? The goal here is to highlight how each one is different.
- Hi, can I make a Japanese translation of this??
- Glad you posted this here Wade. Being a big fan of both Science and Office 365 I enjoyed and shared this around.
It's so hard to accurately portray everything because a lot of the time the answer is "It depends" but I think you've done a good job of it.
