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Office 365 Groups - Active Groups versus All Groups
When searching Office Groups in OWA, a distinction is made between "Active Groups" and "All Groups". What officially defines an Active Group?
I can guess what it means, but I would like to know the actually configuration as I've been asked this question by end-users and would like to pass the correct information along. A search on this didn't turn up the right information.
Thanks in advance for sharing this information!
- Hi there,
An "active group" on that page is defined merely as a group that has had some sort of conversations activity in the past 30 days. It's a binary state, meaning that in that view there is not a notion of groups that are "more active" than others.
This heuristic helps identify groups that still have some sort of conversation happening in them, as sometimes groups stop seeing usage or people create lots of test groups to try things out and don't take the time to go back and clean them out.
Hope this helps!
Blake, PM @ Office 365 Groups
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- Hi there,
An "active group" on that page is defined merely as a group that has had some sort of conversations activity in the past 30 days. It's a binary state, meaning that in that view there is not a notion of groups that are "more active" than others.
This heuristic helps identify groups that still have some sort of conversation happening in them, as sometimes groups stop seeing usage or people create lots of test groups to try things out and don't take the time to go back and clean them out.
Hope this helps!
Blake, PM @ Office 365 GroupsThanks Blake for the info!
Conversations is in my opinion a bit limited for an Office Groups as document movement, planner, etc are also usefull activities. But now I know how to explain this metric to the rest of the world.
Kind regards,
Mark
100% agree that conversation activity provides a limited signal, but at least it is a signal... and this is only for Outlook groups, not Yammer groups.
I guess it might be quite an overhead to make multiple calls to the Graph to retrieve all possible signs of life in a group from calendar, conversations, plan, team, Power BI, or document activity...
- It really helps @Blake!!!! Do you have this documented somewhere?
I'm interested in the answer as well. Did you ever find an answer?
We had a discussion about this a while ago (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Active-vs-Inactive-Office-365-Groups/td-p/28308) and to me it's not clear what an active Office 365 Group means or not cc cfiessinger TonyRedmond VasilMichev
Thank you for sharing the discussion. The link in the article to the https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-Reports-in-the-new-Admin-Center-SharePoint-site-usage-4ecfb843-e5d5-464d-8bf6-7ed512a9b213?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1contains the same question for me. The SharePoint reporting also makes use of total sites & active sites (point 7 in the explanation). Someone on the product team should be able to find out which forumula is used if this is not yet documented anywhere :-)
