Office 365 Groups allow for communication and collaboration. Groups use several Office 365 components like SharePoint, Exchange, and Azure. Groups provide a shared inbox, calendar, documents library and more through a loose coupling of services. Groups can be created and managed through the Azure Active Directory, Office 365 admin centers, Outlook, and via APIs and PowerShell for admins. The document discusses how Groups work and are structured across Office 365 services.

3. TARGET AUDIENCE
ENDUSER DEVELOPER
DECISION
MAKER
ADMIN /
ARCHITECTS

4. TOPICS
Overview Architecture Managing Roadmap
UI
PowerShell
O365 API
overview
creation flow
management
flow
Idea of
Groups
Components
Experience

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7. GROUP PRODUCTIVITY
› Groups are a feature in Office 365 for communication and
collaboration
› Groups are not based in SharePoint Online or Exchange Online
etc. Groups are an Office 365 feature that use several
components from SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Azure and
other services…
› Groups are a loose coupling of independent services.
› Groups host security, identity, governance & compliance

8. BENEFIT
SELF-SERVICE
AVAILIBLE FOR
EVERYONE BY
DEFAULT
SHARING WITH
EXTERNAL
USERS
CONTEXT &
HISTORY
TRACKING
SIMPLE TO
MANAGE
SIMPLE TO
ADMINISTER

9. STRUCTURE AND SERVICES
Team Sites

10. GROUPS EXPERIENCE

14. PLANER ALSO USING GROUPS

15. YAMMER: ACCESS TO SHAREPOINT, ONENOTE
& MORE

16. Picture is taken from Ignite session: “Office 365 Groups | Overview and Roadmap”

18. GROUPS
› Azure Active Directory is the
master
for group identity and
membership across Office 365
› Federated resources – Office
365 services extend with their
data
› Loose coupling - Services notify
each other of changes to a
group: creation, delete, update
Exchange
•Mailbox
•Conversations
•Calendar
SharePoint
•OneDrive
•Documents
•OneNote
other
•Planer
•Yammer
•Connectors
- Group ID
- Resource URLs
- Owners
- Members

19. GROUP CREATION FLOW
Exchange
SharePoint
User creates a
Group using
OWA
Group is
create
via AAD
Graph

20. GROUP MANAGEMENT FLOW
Exchange
SharePoint
Update
Group
via AAD
Graph
Update
Group
Update
Group
Update
Group
FwdSync

22. ADMINISTRATION

23. GROUP MANAGEMENT UX
› Integrated within the Office 365 & Azure
Admin UI
› Office 365 Admin
› Azure AD Admin
› OWA
› Exchange Admin

24. POWER SHELL
› All cmdlets execute against Azure AD
› Create, edit, and delete operations are
available
› Manage members and owners
› Available to tenant admins

25. WICTOR WILÉN - A BIG FAN OF OFFICE 365
GROUPS
www.wictorwilen.se/office-365-groups-for-admins

26. EXTENSIBILITY
https://dev.outlook.com/Connectors
https://graph.microsoft.com/
USERS FILES MAIL
CALENDA
R
GROUP
S
Insights and relationships from Office Graph
TASKS

27. MICROSOFT GRAPH
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups
› MANAGEMENT
› Create a group
› View a group of a given Id
› show a group members
› Update a group's description
› Delete a group
› /CONVERSATIONS
› Create, read, and delete
› Reply, forward
› /EVENTS
› Read; CRUD
› /FILES
›

29. OFFICE 365 GROUPS INNOVATIONS
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=groups

30. OFFICE 365 GROUPS - ROUNDUP
› Office 365 Groups is the cross-application membership service in Office 365.
› A Office 365 Group is an object in Azure Active Directory with a list of
members and a loose coupling to related workloads like a SharePoint Team
Site, Yammer Group, shared Exchange mailbox resources, Planner, PowerBI and
OneNote.
› Office 365 Groups is a service that works with the Office 365 tools you use
already so you can collaborate with your teammates when writing documents,
creating spreadsheets, working on project plans, scheduling meetings, or
sending email.
› Groups in Office 365 let you choose a set of people that you wish to
collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for those people to
share. Resources such as a shared Outlook inbox, shared calendar or a
document library for collaborating on files.

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43. Use Tenant Restrictions to manage
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2019/01/coaching-your-users-
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