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When to use O365 Groups - is the Intranet dead?
Hi Eric.
My advice is not valid in every situation...
You previously wrote: "A marketing team working together in a Group for a campaign, is going to create and collaborate on documents for that campaign. With the Intranet "source of truth", they are going to have to remember to copy the final versions from their Group, to the intranet for all to consume."
Well, in such situation, a feasible solution is, IMHO, to put in the Intranet links to the Group documents, instead of remembering to copy such documents to the Intranet. In such a way, subsequent versions of the documents never need to be copied again to the Intranet.
On the other side, there is not another solution: either you copy the documents, or you point to them, makes sense?
Other situations could need different solutions, of course... ;-)
Dear Eric
I tend to think of Groups more broadly to connect people together in a project or team. Those members can cross over departments, divisions and sites. Groups gives you a way to define that team and easily share information. Since groups is an object at the AD level you can associate apps and information at the group level. This is a powerful concept in the long run and one of the reasons everyone is taking an interest in groups.
I could argue groups could replace all the scenarios discussed here but we are too early in built out of groups to know for sure. There are limits today on what you can do and a lot is still undefined. I would say that all customers should begin to use groups as in many ways as possible. If in the long run groups becomes the "go to" way to organize work, then that will pay off. I think that is where groups is headed.
Feel free to reach out to me. You can schedule a quick online meeting with me using our bookings site Use the option for the free "Products questions and answers" session and we can talk more about some of your issues.
