Office 365 Groups are Your Friend Todd Klindt 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
Todd Klindt • 14 Year SharePoint MVP • Writer, speaker, podcaster, consultant at Sympraxis Consulting, SysKit Chief Evangelist Todd.klindt@sympraxisconsulting.com @toddklindt www.toddklindt.com www.toddklindt.com/Thrive2019 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
What are Office 365 Groups? • Security group for Office 365 apps • SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, Planner, Stream, etc. • Why? • One stop management • Compliance and governance • What’s in it for me? • Easier to manage access • Easier to use other services 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
How do I use Them? • Created automatically • Create in most correct place • Public or Private? • Beware Deletions • What’s New -ish? • Can Groupify non-grouped SharePoint Sites • Can Teamify an existing group • Easier management in Outlook • Creation, editing 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
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Who are the Players? • Group Owners • Big Cheeses • Add and remove members • Change group settings • Like a Site Collection Admin • Group Members • Regular users • Like a Site Member • Add members • Guests • Members, but outside of your organization • IT has to turn this on 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
Let’s Talk about Guests • Collaborate with people not in your company • Different than sharing files in SharePoint • Mostly all email based • Managed in Outlook • Courting Process • Owner sends an invitation • Member may nominate a guest • Guest gets an email and accepts the invitation 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
Managing Membership • Can be done in application • SharePoint Site • Groups in Outlook • Groups in Outlook Web Access • Outlook mobile • IT can also manage at Tenant Level • Office Microsoft 365 Admin Center • Azure AD Admin Center • Can’t nest Groups • Use PowerShell for automation 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
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Governance • Good, not great, reason to have multiple owners 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
How Microsoft uses Them • Creation tied to Dynamic Group of all full-time employees; non- employees can’t create groups • No naming prefix/suffix but blocked words • 180-day group life-cycle; groups must be renewed or will be deleted (unless under retention) (expiry policy) • Usage guidelines shown with plain language; e.g. “Be polite & inclusive” • Custom job emails group members for groups with no owner 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
How Microsoft uses Them • Classification configured in Azure AD; Highly Confidential, Confidential (default), General • Custom jobs set Privacy to Private and disable external membership/sharing based on classification • Group site provisioned in region tied to user’s Preferred Data Location (multi-geo) • Membership reviews for groups with external members (access reviews) • Divisional groups created in SharePoint have retention configured with site template • Custom jobs to enforce ownership policy (2 owners with at least 1 full time employee) 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
Group Management • UIs • PowerShell • Azure Portal • It's kind of a mess • Office Microsoft 365 Admin • Exchange • Exchange Admin • AzureAD • Teams Admin • PnP • Teams • Sync can be delayed 2 hours • SharePoint Admin • Graph • Only Owners 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
New Site and Group https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/NoBueno • No Group, No Team, No Bueno • Can be Groupified later • Group, No Team • Can be Teamified later 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
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Copy Office 365 Group Permissions 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
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Reach Out Todd.klindt@sympraxisconsulting.com @toddklindt www.toddklindt.com www.toddklindt.com/Thrive2019 www.toddklindt.com/LinkedIn 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT MODERN IT TECHNOLOGIES
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