The document discusses Office 365 Groups, highlighting their role in enhancing collaboration and information sharing among team members through integrated tools. It elaborates on the components of an Office 365 Group, including group mailboxes, Azure AD groups, and SharePoint site collections, as well as the visibility and access management for groups. It also addresses group creation policies and future developments within the Office 365 Groups framework.

1. Office 365 Groups: Deep Dive
Alex Pearce

2.  Alex Pearce (Office 365 MVP)
 Director @ BFC Networks
 BLOG: http://www.bfcnetworks.com
 apearce@bfcnetworks.com / @alex_pearce
 Interests in Office 365 Education, Configuration
not Customisation, integration.

3. Office 365

4. Office 365SharePoint
Office 365
SkypeforBusiness
Yammer
Exchange
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5. Office 365SharePoint Office 365
SkypeforBusiness
Yammer
Exchange
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6. Getting things done at work means sharing
information and collaborating across ad hoc
groups and project teams. But, often times the
tools we use to bring people together are
different in each app—distribution groups in
Outlook, buddy lists in Lync, groups in
Yammer. That’s why we’re introducing Groups in
Office 365, so you can easily connect with the
colleagues, information and applications you
need to do more. Blogs.office.com
What is an Office 365 Group?

7. So, is the team site dead?

8. CREATING AN OFFICE 365 GROUP
Creating and navigating through a Office 365 Group

9.  Exchange distribution group
 Email address
(%%GroupName%%@%%defaultdomain%%)
 Emails all members
 Stores the email in the group
 Group Mailbox
 Stores all emails and calendar items
 Get-groupmailbox
Under the hood - Conversations

10.  Azure AD Group
 Admins and Members
Under the hood – Group
Membership

11.  SharePoint Site Collection
 SharePoint document library
 Content is loaded from the Site Collection
into OneDrive
Under the hood – Files

12. WHERE IS MY GROUP CONTENT?
Where can I see this information in my Office 365 Tenant

13.  Anyone can see Public and Private Groups
 Groups set to Private, users can request
access
 Group Admins Manage Requests
Visibility of a Group

14.  No Content Management
 Content Types
 Tagging
 No External Access/Contacts
 No True Private Groups
Features not in a Group

15.  Creates Group based on the name you give it
 Alias
 Email Address
 Site Collection
Query in Creation

16.  Everyone can create a group by default
 PowerShell
 Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity "OwaMailboxPolicy-Default"
-GroupCreationEnabled $false
 Update to OWA-Policy
 Assign new Policy to users who you want to
create Groups
Preventing Creation of Groups

17. PREVENT USERS FROM CREATING
GROUPS
Updating the OWA Policy

18.  Azure AD Management
 Company Administrator
 Helpdesk Admins
 Add themselves as Admins to Group (no
approval required for Private Groups)
Accessing Office 365 Groups

19.  Default anyone can create a group
 A Group Name could be someones name
A few gotchas…..

20.  Roadmap.office.com
Futures of Groups

21.  Roadmap.office.com
Futures of Groups

22. Thank you for attending!
Alex Pearce @alex_pearce
apearce@bfcnetworks.com