There are three main types of Groups, and they’re created based on the way your Group wants to communicate. “Groups” is-in the way you’ll experience it in everyday work life-a generalized collaborative experience in O365.

Once you create the Group (the collection of people), it tips the first domino of a series that provide you a suite of Office 365 apps that you can use to communicate and collaborate. It’s basically an upgraded version of an Outlook distribution group you know, like if you email that email gets forwarded to all of accounting? It’s basically the same thing.īut that’s not the experience you get when you work with a Group. Simply put, a Microsoft 365 Group is a collection of people. And below is some more detailed coverage of what the infographic means. Above is an infographic to get you started with Groups. For example, you don’t access a Group through a standard “Groups” web interface: you can get there through Outlook, Yammer, Teams, or elsewhere. This makes things difficult because 'Groups' is more a concept or an experience than it is a thing. You’re not going to find it in the Waffle, which confuses… everybody.

Why? Because few people (even in my field) can explain Groups well… or correctly. There’s little-to-no learning curve: get in and start working.īut they’re also one of the most confusing new things in Office 365. They provide quick, easy access to an online workspace for communicating with colleagues and collaborating on documents and files. On a user level, Microsoft 365 Groups-which until recently were known as Office 365 Groups and I’ll simply refer to as the capitalized Groups in this article-represent one of the biggest selling points for moving to Office 365.

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