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Features
Groups Teams
Distribution List Yes Yes
Files Yes Yes*
OneNote Yes Yes*
Calendar Yes Yes*
Landing Page Yes Not visible
News Yes Not visible
Planner Yes Yes*
Yammer Group Yes** No
Persisted Chat No Yes
Channels No Yes
Connectors Yes Yes***
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Access to features
Groups Teams
Outlook Calendar, Files, Notebook Notebook
Office 365 – Mail Calendar, Files, Notebook,
Planner, Site
Notebook
Office 365 – SharePoint Site
Office 365 – Planner Calendar, Files, Notebook Files, Notebook
Office 365 – Group Site Files, Notebook, News Files, Notebook
Teams - Web Files, Notebook, Calendar,
Planner, Conversations
Teams – Desktop Files, Notebook, Calendar,
Planner, Conversations
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Groups - Drawbacks
• Interface
– Disjointed navigation
experience
• Skype
– Very little integration
• Conversations
– Outlook conversations add
nothing new
• Yammer
– Restrictions on integration
• Landing Page
– Does not offer links to all
features of a team (Calendar,
Planner)
• News
– No clear
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Teams - Drawbacks
• Calendar
– Can’t book meeting rooms, or
Surface Hub
– Can’t invite anyone outside of
Team
• Skype for Business
– When S4B client is open,
multiple toasts pop-up
– Joining meetings from Outlook
does not use Teams
• Planner
– Tasks in Teams planners are
not visible in the Groups
– Team Planners are not visible
in the Web interface for Planner
• News
– This is not available at all
• Chat
– This is restricted to the Team
Can share from OneDrvie
Can Collaborate internally with Teams
Can Collaborate externally with Groups
Can Publish with SharePoint, Records with SharePoint
* Split by channels
** If Yammer is a 1:1 network with 365
*** Can connect to some other systems but not in the same way