Office 365 Groups Explained - New blog series
Hi everyone, Noticed that Office 365 Groups are still a topic that starts a lot of discussions and often associated with those I hear things that are simply not true 🙂 So I decided to start a blog series to explain what they are from A-Z, here is what I am thinking: The Office 365 Groups Complete Series: The Office 365 Groups Basics Office 365 Groups – what you get and what to use How to Manage Office 365 Groups Office 365 Groups permissions and external sharing Office 365 Groups Tips from Microsoft and Experts on the field The first blog is released and the second with a more in depth look at things coming next week. Let me know if you'd like me to dive into something in particular I will definitly be looking at your comments. https://en.share-gate.com/blog/office-365-groups-explained ned
New infographic: Explaining Office 365 Groups
On a user level, Office 365 Groups are one of the biggest selling points for moving to Office 365. They provide quick, easy access to an online workspace for communicating with colleagues and collaborating on documents and files. There’s little-to-no learning curve: get in and start working. But they’re also one of the most confusing new things in Office 365. Below is my take on how Groups (and Yammer and Teams!) works from an everyday user's perspective. Use it for training, for explaining, and as a go-to resource when Groups confuses you. Below is just a small part of http://icsh.pt/O365groups. Read that in full and share with your colleagues!Check out the Office Online Interactive Guides (click-through demos)....Feedback needed
Hello IT Enthusiasts! I'm on the Office IT Pro readiness team at MS and am always looking for impactful resources that make it easy for our customers and partners to get up to speed on Microsoft technologies. If you have attended past events (MS Ignite, Tech Summits, Build, etc) you are probably familiar with the many labs that we provide in our dedicated lab rooms, covering a wide range of topics (Azure, Office & Windows). We also have an inventory of Click-Through demos (aka. Online Interactive Guides), that cover a range of Office solutions. For those of you interested, please run through a few of these and let me know what you think. Do you like the "click-through" format? Do you like to learn this way? Do you prefer labs or Online Interactive Guides to see first-hand how MS technologies work? What products/services would you like to see? (The guides listed are Office focused but feel free to name any product) There are certainly pros and cons to both labs and Online Interactive Guides (labs mirror the "real" experience but take longer to complete and can be prone to more errors, while OIGs almost always work as expected and take less time to complete but don't allow for exploration within the enviroment and tend to get outdated quickly). Please let me know your thoughts on the below Online Interactive Guides. If the community finds these valuable, we will make them a priority and ramp up our current inventory with new experiences (Microsoft Teams, MyAnalytics, updated Office Pro Plus apps etc). Online Interactive Guides Thanks Michael KophsSocial Media Connections: Let's Network!
I love the Microsoft Tech Community and find it to be an incredible source of information, discussion, feedback, and comradery. I also use LinkedIn and Twitter to keep in touch with my professional network. Do you? Share your usernames in the comments and let's connect! I'll start 🙂 Twitter: Brian_Levenson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianlevensonTake the Office 365 IT Pro Challenge (online quiz)!
Greetings fellow Office 365 IT Pros! Are you an Office 365 IT pro guru? Test your Office 365 and Microsoft 365 knowledge by taking the IT Pro Challenge, an interactive online quiz including up to 25 questions designed to test your proficiency in Office 365 and Microsoft 365 administration, teamwork and collaboration, deployment, device management and more! Several of the questions have short 30 second to 1 minute product/service showcase videos as well. Feel free to share the IT Pro Challenge with your colleagues. You can even add the IT Pro Challenge to your IT staff's required/optional training. The IT Pro Challenge is an HTML5 web app designed to run on a large, touch enabled display or on a standard pc/laptop display (touch or mouse). Option 1: Run the IT Pro Challenge on a large (any size) touch display in a common area that is frequented by IT staff. Just open up Edge or Chrome on a large touch display in your office and enter Full Screen Mode (for Edge: win-shift-enter, Chrome: F11) and let the challenges begin! Option 2: Simply send the link out to your staff and they can run the challenge on their own PC/Laptops (optimized for Edge, Chrome and Firefox). Take the IT Pro Challenge here: http://aka.ms/itprochallenge Enjoy and please post any feedback that could make the IT Pro Challenge more effective in your organization. Michael Kophs IT Pro Readiness MicrosoftInterview: Yammer connected Office 365 Groups
I managed to snag espnguyen and Angus Florance to talk about Yammer connected Office 365 Groups rolling out this week. Loryan Strant and a live audience helped us put some pertinent questions to Steve and Angus. After 18 months of plumbing and "non-sexy" updates, it looks like Yammer is ready to start ramping up on feature releases. I expect many will be in-line with the Office 365 Groups fabric, bringing parity to teams that choose the Yammer experience for their conversations. We had some curly questions around compliance and the different waves of updates for Yammer connected Office 365 Groups. It's 30min interview via Soundcloud or YouTube. RE:Office 365 - Interview: Yammer connected Office 365 GroupsWhat new in Office 365 in 2017
Last year I posted a big list of changes in Office 365, this year I have done the same but put it in a free TechNet report for the community. It's my way of giving back and hopefully, it's a useful resource. I put some predictions in there looking at the year ahead plus some additional commentary. It's been a labour of love, as it's taken a while to complete and bring together. Please check it out if you get a chance or have any feedback, thanks. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Office-365-Year-in-Review-23dfad49 Big thanks to the people I mention in the credits and more besides, you guys rock! What's stood out for you in 2017, any particular features that jump out at you when looking back?Yammer integration with Office 365 Groups now rolling out
Really pleased to see this, bringing the best of Office 365 together. https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/02/yammer-integration-with-office-365-groups-now-rolling-out/ "Today, we are pleased to announce the integration of Yammer with Office 365 Groups. Now, when you create a new group in Yammer, it will automatically be part of the Office 365 Groups service, giving the group a OneNote notebook, a Planner for task management, a SharePoint Online team site and document library. With the integration, you and the members of your group can readily access these shared resources directly from Yammer." Check out the https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/02/yammer-integration-with-office-365-groups-now-rolling-out/for more details including a useful FAQ. There is also a Yammer AMA coming up, March 7 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. PST / 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. GMT, a great opportunity to ask product and engineering teams questions!Trying to make sense of Groups, StaffHub, Planner, Teams, Sites, etc.
I thought I'd try to create some clarity as well as explain some of the confusion and integration points between the various communication and collaboration apps and services inside of Office 365, specifically: StaffHub, Office 365 Groups, Yammer, Planner, Teams. Have a read: https://thecloudmouth.com/2017/01/18/hubs-groups-teams-sites-trying-to-understand-them-all/
