Microsoft technology is moving at a rapid pace. New ways to work are being developed rapidly as well. A few such new tools are Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. These look powerful and promising but they seem similar. Also, where do they fit with SharePoint? In this session, we will look at what each is, what their differences are, and when is the best time to use each.

1. Which Should I Use When?
SharePoint vs Microsoft Teams vs Office 365 Groups:

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What is SharePoint?
What are Office 365
Groups?
What are Microsoft
Teams?
When would I use
each?
How do I get to each?

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8. ….SharePoint
"SharePoint" is shorthand that
some people use to refer to one
or more Microsoft SharePoint
products or technologies. You
can use SharePoint to set up
collaborative sites to share
information with others, manage
documents from start to finish,
and publish reports to help
everyone make better decisions.

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Office 365 Group is an email
distribution list that includes a
shared document library and a
group calendar. Any faculty or staff
member can create and manage a
group, making it a convenient
option for small project teams and
committees.
…Office 365 Groups

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Microsoft Teams is a chat-
based collaboration tool that is
part of the Office 365 suite of
services. Teams enables
remote, global and dispersed
teams to work together and
collaborate through a common
workspace, team chat, one-on-
one chat, document
collaboration and more.
…Microsoft Teams

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12. Office 365
Groups
• Sharing with internal and external team members
• Comes with widgets for files, tasks, notes, emails and
conversations
Good for making quick
sites for projects

13. Microsoft
Teams
• Everything that Office 365 Groups has with the addition
of Skype for Business built into the platform for chat and
meetings
• Have the ability for adding other pre-fab widgets and
connectors
Also good for making
quick sites for projects
but…
Internal Teams Only

14. SharePoint
• Waaayyyyy more customizable
• You can make projects sites plus…
• Intranet
• Portals
• Workflows
• Dashboards
• And more …
Makes all types of
sites including those
for projects

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A Few Things You Should Know…
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 When you create …
 An Office 365 Group and corresponding SharePoint site is created
 A Microsoft Team, a Office 365 Group, and corresponding SharePoint site is created
 Files
 They flow up and down between the connected Teams, Groups, and sites but not
conversations and emails
 If you need to add content types or workflow, you need to do so in the SharePoint site.
NOTE: They may only work in SharePoint, i.e. content types only show for use in the
SharePoint site
 Conversations in Office 365 Groups is connected to the distro list and the Conversations in the
Microsoft Team is a message board
 Members
 Limited to 999 people
 Can be used across site collections as a permission group
 There is an app for that! (and by that, I mean an app for all: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and
Office 365 Groups  )

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…Office 365 Groups

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…Microsoft Teams

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…SharePoint

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