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Hybrid deployment and on-prem Office Group Ownership
cfiessinger We are in the same situation. We are ready to give access to OneDrive and SharePoint Online and would like to leverage groups features but mailboxes are not migrated to O365 and the Exchange administrators are not ready for that.
We can start to assign licenses, that is not the issue. Exchange owners still need to figure out all the impacts of moving mailboxes on the mail retentions, shared mailboxes, public folders...
I found that, if we enable Teams on a group, members can be managed in the Teams UI. It's a workaround but some other features are missing or links lead to error pages.
Any way to start using Groups while doing a gradual migration of mailboxes or it's a big bang thing?
Thanks
MicrosoftOur mailboxes are currently still on premises and we are looking at Office 365 as a collaboration platform where we can share dcouments and have conversations with our customers in an ad-hoc way. Today it seems that we need to migrate mailboxes in order for people to own groups and read the messages in the threads even though there are + buttons to create a group that people can see, and then they get informed they have to have a mailbox to create the group.
Have the same use case with 30K users and a longer term effort to move mailboxes but all collab in o365. With the exchange online license disabled and no mailbox, users can't add folks to the group without using planner or the mobile app which have been the two work arounds we've found. Especially with the link from team sites to conversations this may be a worse experiance
Yes, the lack of access to the shared mailbox components (discussion threads, calendar, tasks) are also major inhibitors to making the groups a feature to promote. Instead I have departments actively pursuing various third party products like HighQ, where they don't need their email on the cloud to collaborate...
