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Antony Taylor
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Nov 09, 2016
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Outlook Web Access Office 365 Groups "GroupFiles"

Morning all, We saw the new "GroupFiles" view drop into Groups OWA yesterday. Few Queries.

 

  • Can someone link me to the Office blog about this feature? I can't seem to find it. I want to make sure my clients are prepared for this because of the next points.
  • GroupFiles does not actually seem to bring in any historical documents to the GroupFiles view at this time. Only new recieved attachments and newly uploaded documents are shown.
  • There was no pop-up or clear instruction that the "Files" tab in OWA had changed and how to access your other items. Whilst i was able to quickly find the "Browse Library" button I'm sure this will confuse some clients.
  • I assume wrongly or rightly that the "GroupFiles" experience will only apply to the OWA portion of Office 365 groups because contextually it makes sense there.

Bonus question. Any ETA on when the automatic saving of Received attachments into a Group library is going to arrive?

 

Regards,

Antony

    • John Wynne's avatar
      John Wynne
      Silver Contributor
      Great new feature. I find it very useful, especially if Outlook is your home :-)
      • Understood, I was thinking Anthony was referring to another feature :-)...I already had it in my tenants
    • Antony Taylor's avatar
      Antony Taylor
      Steel Contributor
      Fantastic thanks Christophe. I will admit I did not check the Message Center. Obviously wrongly I assume the message center is just a location to find admin information regarding GA releases.
      • cfiessinger's avatar
        cfiessinger
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        Great, please note this has been rolled out to First Release customers only (and not worldwide).
    • Antony Taylor's avatar
      Antony Taylor
      Steel Contributor

      Strangely today the GroupFiles view is working as intended. Here's a screenshot.

       

    • David Margossian's avatar
      David Margossian
      Brass Contributor

      Is this what you are looking for.  We noticed it in our tenant as well.

      It appears to take all files out of the folder structure in one view, and in the folder structure in the other view.

       

       

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