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Office 365 Groups: Connect, Collaborate, and Manage

Discover how Office 365 Groups enables teams to connect, collaborate, and manage tasks efficiently across various applications like Outlook, SharePoint, and Planner. Learn about the administration and roadmap of Office 365 Groups.

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Office 365 Groups: Connect, Collaborate, and Manage

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  1. Office 365 Groups overview, administration and roadmap Christophe Fiessinger PRD313

  2. Overview

  3. Intelligent fabric Office Connecting teams thru modern experiences & enabling choice Outlook Skype for Business … OneDrive Delve Planner SharePoint OneNote Calendar Office Graph Office 365 Groups Infrastructure Yammer

  4. Key benefits Single definition • Self-service • Public by default • Context & history • Sharing to non-members • Simple to manage

  5. Office 365 Groups Overview

  6. Groups in Outlook 2016 Participate in conversations, schedule meetings, share files & notes and even initiate a Skype for Business voice and video call for urgent real-time decisions. Outlook Groups app Available on iOS, Android & Windows Phone. Continue conversations, view files, @mention colleagues and even discover other relevant groups. Introducing availability of Office 365 Groups in Outlook 2016

  7. Power BI Create a workspace to collaborate with your team. Leverage the Groups collaboration & communication capabilities to create and review insights. Groups in Power BI

  8. Office 365 Planner Create new plans, organize & assign tasks, share files, talk about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. Integrated with Office 365 Groups, so all of the conversations in Planner are available in Outlook 2016, Outlook on the web and the Outlook Groups mobile app. Introducing Office 365 Planner

  9. Dynamics CRM Create Office 365 Groups for opportunities, cases, accounts and all other entities. Groups experiences are surfaced in-context within CRM Deploy Office 365 Groups

  10. Administration

  11. Admin UI Office 365 admin center AAD control panel Office 365 Admin app Scripted via PowerShell cmdlets Execute against Azure AD as primary Synchronous notification/update in Exchange/OneDrive *UnifiedGroup Create, edit, and delete Manage single-value properties available on the Group object *UnifiedGroupLinks Manage members, owners, and subscriber list Managing Groups Add-UnifiedGroupLinks Get-UnifiedGroup Get-UnifiedGroupLinks New-UnifiedGroup Remove-UnifiedGroup Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks Set-UnifiedGroup Use PowerShell to manage Office 365 Groups&http://powershell.office.com/ Convert an Exchange distribution group to an Office 365 Group

  12. Naming conventions Set on display name during create/change Blocked word list, pre-/post-fix based on AAD attributes or fixed text Same policy for DL and Groups IT admins can override Group creation permissions Control groups create UI in Outlook web & desktop for certain or all users through policy Does not prevent users from using groups IT can still create groups (managed scenarios) See Controlling Group Creation Groups Policy controls New-OwaMailboxPolicy –Name “<policy name>” Set-OwaMailboxPolicy –Identity “<policy name>” –GroupCreationEnabled $false Set-CASMailbox –Identity <user> -OWAMailboxPolicy “<policy name>”

  13. Office 365 unified API overview Office 365 Groups REST API reference Deep Dive into the Office 365 Groups API - Hands On Labs Groups REST API Events Management Conversations Files Create industry/vertical specific solutions Connect line of business apps with Groups

  14. Office 365 Groups Hybrid Support Office 365 Groups are created & managed in Azure Active Directory (AAD) Azure AD Connect enables synchronization of Groups with your on-premises Active Directory into DLs with: Target Address - the service address of the Groups object Recipient Type Details - specifies that the Group is not mastered in the on-premises directory AAD Premium is required Exchange 2013 CU9 required (individual mailboxes are on-premises) Resources: Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory Office 365 Groups write back

  15. Office 365 Groups Admin

  16. Roadmap

  17. Key investments for 2015-2016 • Experiences • Guest user access (external users) • Continuously improving UI design • Search and discovery • Calendaring improvements • Outlook for Mac support • Administration • eDiscovery & legal hold • Data Loss Prevention – in Group views • Auditing • Mobile administration • Dynamic and hidden membership • Expire inactive groups • Soft-delete and restore • Multi-domain support • Office 365 admin reports • Hybrid guidance & improvements • Integrations • Office 365 Planner • Office Graph and Delve • Skype Meet now • SharePoint • Yammer office.com/roadmap

  18. Next steps Ready yourselves – watch The Rise Of Dynamic Teams: Modern Collaboration & Personalised Insight [PRD212] Drive office 365 groups usage Give us feedback Key resources Blog: https://blogs.office.com Roadmap: http://roadmap.office.com Q&A/Feedback—Office 365 Network: https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork Support: https://community.office365.comand https://portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx#ServiceRequestsPage

  19. Continue the discussion on the Office 365 Network!

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  21. Continue your Ignite learning path • The Rise Of Dynamic Teams:Modern Collaboration & Personalised Insights[PRD212]

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