We are using Office 365 Groups with Dynamic Membership (Azure AD Premimum). These Office 365 Groups do not appear in Outlook Desktop alongside Office 365 Groups that have Assigned Membership. Outlook Desktop Cached Exchange Mode is enabled for all users. ...
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We are using Dynamic Membership on a few O365 Groups, and they show up fine in Outlook.
(We are not hybrid tho)
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I find that in two different Office 365 tenants my organization is unable to create an event and add a skype meeting to that event on the Office 365 group calendar via the web interface (outlook.office.com). We seem to be able to create the event with an ...
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I have not seen this kind of issue on the tenants I manage
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The campus recruting team was looking to create an external network for candidates, university faculty and our recruting team to connect. They were thinking of using an external network (to allow for university staff to connect). We were wondering if O365 ...
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Please let me know what you think: - "Beginning in March 2017, managers who have 2-20 direct reports, do not already have a direct reports group, and have permissions to create groups in Outlook, will automatically have a private group created for them wit
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So our tenant organisational config says this is enabled although the number of mailboxes is way more than 50,000. I don't see any direct report groups created for any u ...
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Things like this make me check the O365 Message Center/Centre regularly...that's good right :-) The best thing about this new feature,...is that it is easily disabled. O ...
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Can someone please explain what will happen for a automated group where the manager leave the company, also whant will happen when a replacement of the manager is assigne ...
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First of all, Kudos is deserved @Christophe Fiessinger for making this change known via the message center in a timely manner, and making sure people know how to opt-out. ...
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So, I'm trying to wrap my head around my current problem and could use a little help. What we have: - Office 365 with a verified custom domain (e.g. contoso.com)
- Exchange 2013 onPrem
- also the MX records for contoso.com point to the onPrem environment
- therefore
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I asked Mr. Van Hybrid about this issue. Here's his response: So, I'm trying to wrap my head around my current problem and could use a little help. What we have: ...
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I would log a call with Microsoft support and get some help to work through this scenario. It is definitely supported to have Office 365 groups synchronized back to an on ...
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I am running a hybrid environment, and mailflow still goes through our on-premise exchange server. Due to other circumstances, we are unable to change our MX records at the moment. In the meantime, we are moving our on-premise Distribution Lists to Offi ...
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We hope you join our 'Ask Microsoft Anything' AMA!
The AMA will begin shortly today, Thursday, April 13, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the Office 365 Groups AMA space. Add the event to your calendar and view in your timezone here.
An AMA i ...
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there goes another missed AMA due to no mobile push notifications of this platform :(
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Missing a feature in ECP. We can't sent to a distribution list on behalf of an Office 365 group. I'm a member of that office 365 group and also have the authorization to send on behalf set, however that office 365 group is not authorized to send to that ...
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Well the UI is only exposing few of the options that control this feature. Simply use PowerShell: 1) to add user: Set-DistributionGroup DG -AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom @{add="u ...
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Can someone please let me know if the content gets deleted when a user who is a group owner leaves the company or his O365 license gets unaissigned? Will the data be deleted? Or will it stay forever? Thank you in advance!!
When the Office 365 groups owner leaves the company the group remains in the tenant. You should ask your Office 365 admin to add a new Group admin to the orphaned group. ...
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Hi, just wanted to find out if anyone else is having issue with TeamSite languages for Office 365 Groups? I have one group where 3 different languages are shows, but most show up in a language that I can barely read. My languages and the teamsite languages ...
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I am now seeing this too. I'm based in the UK and I've seen Swedish then German across different sites!
For a moment I thought they fixed it, but now it's back to showing a different language everytime I close my browser:  
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Can I assign Exchange folder permissions based on an Office 365 Group?
If you mean delegation, the answer is yes
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Under "Following" (left on top) on the SharePoint home page i see deleted O365 Groups. Why? When are deleted groups no longer appear?
I don't there is any automation, and never was when using this on-prem either. Would be great if there was auto-cleanup, or you could create something yourself. Following ...
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There's been plenty of buzz about which new Office 365 tools to use and in turn it's generated a lot of great content. We struggled with the same problem at AvePoint and decided to create a simple framework to help those in charge of collaboration pick th ...
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Shyam, this is good stuff. I have been mulling over how to break down factors for our organization so I like that you have simplified it to 3 factors and like that you us ...
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Hey Sheyam, this is perhaps the first explainer I've seen that I actually like. I think I agree with the position of Yammer in the formal tone, it kind of makes sense whi...
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More and more I use the tool that connects me to the people I want to work with; all this old-style talk of "deciding", you have to go where the people are and use the ch...
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Interesting that you consider Yammer to be formal, as quite often I see it used in a more informal or conversational way. I would worry that if Yammer became too formal, ...
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This is really really really great! I like the phrase-ology for tempo. Ive been calling it "slow collaboration" versus "rapid collaboration". I would like to see it referr...
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By default, an O365 Group provisions a SP Team Site with "Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization's directory". How can we modify the default SharingCapability to Disabled upon creation? Obviously we can change t ...
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Are you looking to have the ability or control external sharing specifically at the site level vs the external sharing of the Group itself?
AFAIK, the link you referenced is the state of the art, at the moment. Hence, no way to change the default and no UI setting, at least for now. Only PowerShell.
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So I know there is an automated way to migrate traditional DLs to Outlook Groups but they come with some eligibility requirement. I was hoping if someone can point me to, or share their experience of moving/migrating/converting Nested DLs to Outlook Group ...
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My recommendation is to avoid doing this type of migration just for the sake of it. Distribution groups are still a viable solution and as long as they do the task you sh ...
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Vipul you are correct these can be upgraded, we will be updating our documentation shortly.
Blocked words policy only works when you create a Group from OWA...we still don't have the Azure AD policy for blocked words. In regards of the upgrade of moderated distr ...
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It's great Groups have become an integral part of so many different pieces of Office 365, but the fact that there are so many different ways to interact with groups from different locations makes it rather confusing. I'd like to start switching some of o ...
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The majority of my current Groups is through Outlook on the Web but newer Groups for me are more commonly based through Teams. A great power of Groups is to be adaptable ...
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yes more and more apps are built on Office 365 Groups.
The easiest is to present groups in Outlook as a natural evolution of DLs with history and context, no need to cha ...
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Microsoft Teams is my interface for Groups. :) Show your boss how a new member to a Group/Team gets immediate historical access to all prior conversations, and then show ...
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Hello: I am the PMO Senior Manager for a large global CPG company's R&D department. Note: I am in the business (not IT), and can't get the guidance / options / clarity I need before choosing to implement SharePoint Online or Microsoft Teams for the purpo ...
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If you utilized a team based structure you could still set up a centralized search environment outside of the SharePoint site collections built for the projects. If you u...
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The big big big negative that I see with Microsoft Teams is that you cannot search for project documents across private Teams SharePoint sites OR repurpose MS Teams Share
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I have been getting quite a bit of flack for not releasing O365 Groups on my campus. While I would love to release Groups and its other apps, I have some concerns. 1. Naming policy still not in Azure AD. We are trying to avoid namespace issues. This is t ...
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We had some of the same concerns. Retention policies were a big thing. We were also worried about multiple groups being created and not being managed. With a lot of th ...
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We are struggling with this exact same problem on our campuses, as well - and according to the latest release regarding management features, the Group Naming Policy featu ...
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i can only give you some answers to point 3 and 5 :) 3) When deleting a Group, things still seem to hang around(SharePoint space Yes i can confirm that (at least for our t ...
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We have lots of users who are using Outlook, and use the "reading pane" aligned to the bottom Group conversations are a bit hard to digest this way, and they are asking if there is a way to open up in a new window. If they get long emails, they typically ...
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Hi Brent,
This is a very popular request and we are working on it this quarter.
Thanks,
Krish
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I'm not seeing an option to share Contacts Lists in Office 365 Groups. Are there any plans to add this? Thanks...
Sorry can you be a bit more specific as to what you're hoping to achieve? Are you wanting to create a contact list inside of an Office 365 Group that people can access?
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According to the artricle article below I should be able to create an Office 365 from the Admin Center, but that option is not appearing for me even though I am a global admin. I only see the usual options of "Distribution List", "Mail-enabled security g ...
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The article I mentioned had a link to email the documentation team about the article and as a result they updated the doc to include the following requirements. What you ...
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it does apply to global admins as well, you need to make sure you are in that group. My colleague, also a global admin couldn't until she was added to our group creation ...
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As announced today in this post by @Anne Michels:
The Office 365 Groups activity report helps you understand how groups facilitate collaboration across your organization by surfacing information about which groups are active, how many members and guests t ...
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That's going to be useful. I see the graphic inside the post shows Group name and Group owner as GUIDs rather than names. Can we assume this is just an early screenshot a...
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Not seeing the new report in at least two of my tenants
Christophe, is it deployed? Found no such report (i'm on FR).
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On April 6, 2017 Microsoft announced updates to Office 365 groups and a look at the roadmap for the next three months. New enhancements for administering Office 365 Groups include;
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Is it possible to default the permissions for "everyone except external users" to Read instead of Edit for the SP Team Site that is provisioned with a Public Office 365 Group? When a user creates a group they can cleary see that a Public group allows "any ...
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It's been discussed numerous times, there was even an UserVoice item on this. But Microsoft is sticking to the "everyone except external users" can edit by default config ...
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