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MicrosoftUPDATE: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups moving beyond First Release
As announced in August, 2016, we are bringing SharePoint Online team sites to Office 365 groups. This change rolled out to First Release tenants in the end of 2016 and is now beginning worldwide rollout. This next phase of the rollout will start Thursday, January 12, 2017, and is expected to complete to customers worldwide in 100% of production by the end of the month.
The new SharePoint Online team site home page for an Office 365 group showcases important news, content and site activity.
When you create a group, Office 365 gives the group a shared inbox, calendar, OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management—and now, a full-powered SharePoint team site. Each group gets a modern home page—with the ability to create additional pages—document libraries, lists and business apps.
The integration of groups and SharePoint team sites means that any time a new team site is created, a new group membership will be created as well. You can easily see the members of the site, if the site is listed as public or private within your organization and how it has been classified. In addition, all existing Office 365 groups will be updated with their own team site. And once the rollout is complete for your tenant, all existing and newly created groups will get a team site by default.
Within a group’s team site, this roll out brings a new home page, features News for highlighting important content in the team, and the Activity web part for showing recently active content. These team sites also include our new responsive and powerful page authoring and consumption experience – all connected to the overall Office 365 group experience.
There is nothing you need to do but collaborate with your team in a more modern, connected way.
Please ask in a reply to this thread if you have any questions. We are pleased to reach this milestone, and here with you along the way.
Thanks,
Mark
Any idea about Yammer interation for Team site groups?
Hi Ben Follow this blog: http://thecloudmouth.com/2017/01/09/integrating-yammer-into-microsoft-teams/
it explains how to add Yammer in teams :-)
Thank you, I was talking about the integration betwen groups and Yammer.
We are supposed to have a team site and a convesation listing and depending on where it is created your conversations are happening in yammer or Outlook
Thanks for the post about Teams and Yammer
Good work team!
Just curious, is there a common navigation framework available for cross site navigation? Something like managed metadata navigation? It would be great to be able to easily navigate between different group sites without having to manually re-create the navigation on each site. Anything planned?
Office 365 Groups do solve a much needed problem that traditional SharePoint sites however the navigation is not consistant and the applications do not all look the same. When moving between Planner, Word and One Note...they all have different button and navigation. In some instances, I cannot figure out how to get back to the "group conversation landing page". Governace is another issue as there are a few ways to create a group that need to be locked down from a centeral location. Please keep this in mind as you further develop this great new addition to the Office 365 suite. I know Teams are coming in the near future and that will further confuse users if there isn't clear guidance on how these tools are used and surfaced in the platform.
Gratz on reaching that milestone :)
Any way to connect my current IT SharePoint teamsite to my Office 365 IT group?
- Mark-Kashman
There is not today. The team is reviewing how we enable classic SharePoint Online team sites to be groups aware. Nothing more to share, other than to assert it's an area under review. And know that classic team site in SharePoint Online already have many of the modern SharePoint components: modern lists and libraries, ability to create modern pages, ability to create a modern page and make it the default home page, modern site contents page, and News is also coming to classic team sites.
Hope that helps,
Mark
Thanks for the update Mark. I have added our Classic SharePoint Site as a tab in our Teams Interface so users can easily get to the documents, but people are confused now as to why there are 2 places to save docs to in teams. I guess I should just take the plunge and migrate everything over to the new site that was created when I spun up the Team/Group for us in teams.
- This is a question for our start up, too! How to get a SharePoint sites with mailboxes (and all those functions - e.g. mailing/discussion, calendar, planner, etc. - which would fit to MS Teams quite well) entirely connected to Office 365 groups to get best experience with MS Teams? Thanks!
- At this moment there is no way to connect an existing SPO Site with an existing Group
If I create a new teamsite i can't see an associated Office Group in my first release tenant. Is that feature already released?
the other way works if I create a Group a teamsite is also created
I'm concerned that the sharepoint online team sites in office 365 groups are not fully featured compared with "classic sharepoint online".
Can we have clarity about permissions that apply to sharepoint teamsites within groups? Is it possible to apply different permissions to folders within an Office 365 group?
- Mark-Kashman
By default, the membership of the group is managed by the group membership capabilities (owners and members). And that suffices for most. But as it is a SharePoint team site, you can certainly adjust the people & poermissions as you had in the past. We promote the top level membeship as where most go to manage the group's team site. And if you need more, and approach it thoguhtfully with good infomration architecture in mind, then you can achieve that as well.
Hope that helps,
Mark
Tamas SzaboMy problem is, I still cannot edit the header if I add a page to the site. Why is that? And by the end of the month is it going to be editable? The issue is it tells me to give a title to the page but there's no way to change the background from that grey default one. Or is there?
- Same request here, you cannot call it "powerful page authoring" when it's not possible to alter the header.
A bootstrap-like layout would be welcome as well!Benoit DELVAUX & Tamas Szabo: The SharePoint team moved the uservoice item to in development in november. See the following link: https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/16538149-title-banner-on-modern-pages
I see we have 2 distinct sets of SharePoint sites...
1) The tranditional SharePoint sites are found under https://<companyname>.sharepoint.com/ with subsites at https://<companyname>.sharepoint.com/<sitename>
2) The new group Sharepoint Team Sites are found under https://<companyname>.sharepoint.com/Sites/<sitename>
For the first set of sites, about 80% of our sites have been updated so that we can create the new Modern Team Sites. None of these have been Groupified.
Anyone know the ETA for converting the old team sites to the new Modern Team Site experience?
Anyne know if Microsoft plans to allow the new Group + Team Site experience to have nested subsites?
- LincolnDeMarisFor converting old team sites to the new modern team site experience - that's already partly happening, with features like modern lists, libraries, pages, and site contents. We want to enable the ability to connect an Office365 group with existing sites, but we don't have a timeline to announce on that yet.
It's already possible to create subwebs in team sites associated with O365 groups! Give it a try!I've been tring to create secondary libraries and the navigation is not consitant. Its a complete show stop issue for our work so we have to give up on Office 365 Groups until there is a consitant navigation and branding.
It's really great but it would be really great to let people to make some changes on the masterpage and CSS.
Many of our customers would like to have their own top navigation bar on all Office 365 applications.
- Does this mean that the new client side webparts can be used in production environments?
- Mark-Kashman
Soon, but not quite, for 3rd party custom web parts built using the new SharePoint Framework - it is still in preview stage. That said, the 1st party components in the service today when you create a new News article or modern page are fully supported by Microsoft.
