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Mark-Kashman
Microsoft
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
Getting this error. How do I access Office 365 Groups from Sharepoint? It doesn't seem to be an app.
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New Site Mailboxes can no longer be created in SharePoint Online. Consider using Office 365 Groups to connect a team site with an email conversation.
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Tejas MehtaHi Sloane - can you tell us more about where you are seeing that error? What are you trying to do? Create a new site (with a group) from SharePoint? The error you are describing is related to the Site Mailbox feature and not Office 365 Groups.
I created a new private sharepoint site through office365, and I am trying to create a private mailbox (like on my other team and private sites) where only site members can access the mailbox.
I'm trying to create a new MAILBOX on a site's group, so all members can simply log into the site to view the emails.
Hi
I am using team sites/groups throughout my organisation. Loving the ease of set up. I do have one issue where I cannot add a task list webpart to the main page of the site. Given most of these sites are being used in a project type group collaboration it would be great to have this as the first part you see.
Any thoughts or remedies on this?
LincolnDeMarisWe are still working on a modern version of this web part that you can put on modern pages like the new team site homepage.
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.
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.
- Hi, we have a hybrid exchange with onprem/ Office 365 and most users do not have mailboxes in Office 365 but they have E1 with Exchange Online turned off. This seems to cause issues when they try to add new members. What is the solution for this?
- Mark-KashmanAt this stage, Office 365 Groups - the membership component that manages permissions - is deployed into Office 365. Following that, the underlying services, like the modern team site or shared calendar, is created in Office 365, thus requiring the end user to have access rights to Office 365. AKA, to use a modern team site connected to Office 365 groups, the user needs to be assigned an Office 365 license.
Please can someone help detail the search story for Office 365 Group Team Sites.
Currently, it appears that only 'Public' O365 Group Team Sites have contents indexed by the SharePoint search index.
'Private' groups do not.
You can test this by going to a 'Private' O365GTS document library and search for a document using the search box on the top right. I get no results.
Searching using the search box on the top left of the 'Home' page gives results (Office Graph Search?)
Is there is a way to have 'Private' O365GTS contents indexed by SharePoint Search? Please can someone point me in the right direction... It is not a good story for users to not have documents show up in the SharePoint search center...
- Tejas Mehta
Hi Brian - today you should be able to search for content in private groups from SharePoint Home and from within the private group itself. There is work underway to enable private group results from Delve (and classic search) as well. The timeframe on that front will align with 'search with personal relevance' which was announced at Ignite in this session. Bernt Ivar Olsen might be able to share additional details here.
I have also experienced this problem. Please advise why contents of a private group are not being indexed in the Sharepoint Online search index.
How will we know when the change has happened? I keep checking every day to see if the "Create site" link opens to create a group, or checking my Office 365 Groups to see if they have a team site yet. But I'm wondering if there's a better way to know/check?
- No better way to know/check...by the way, you can directly try modern site creation by typing the following Url in your browser: https://<YourTenant>.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/creategroup.aspx
I actually just noticed in our admin settings that the section for "Site Creation" has changed. It now shows the option to create "A site with an Office 365 group or classic site", "A site with an Office 365 group", or "A classic site." So it seems like our environment has been updated.
However, I created a site from the homepage, and it did not create a group. We have the create "A site with an Office 365 group or classic site" option chosen, but I was not prompted with anything when I created the site.
Does this mean that it's not completely rolled out to us yet?
- Fran TookeThanks! this is great!
- Hi Mark,
Will this also include the soft delete and recover functionality?
Thanks.
JohnIt does indeed!
Recovering a group deleted last week that wasnt avialable in Get-SPODeletedSitethat is now.
Waiting to see what happens...
Hi all,
Is there a clear governance and usage guidelines/recommendations about groups published by Microsoft somewhere ? It's hard to define their usage as a self-service for our customers when we do not know their futures.
- Mark-KashmanHi Jean,
Best place to start is here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-about-Office-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1
... and it blends into one or two other articles into more specifics about management how to and guidance.
Cheers,
Mark
