Groups are a new feature in Office 365 for communication and collaboration ›Groups are not based in SharePoint Online or Exchange Online etc. Groups are an Office 365 feature that use several components from SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Azure and more… ›Groups are a loose coupling of independent services

1. THE ANATOMY OF OFFICE 365 GROUPS

2. THANK YOU
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3. Nicki Borell
Consultant / Evangelist
SharePoint & Office 365
MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP
…join our difference
Author:
REFERENT
“…if you ask why you will never understand“

4. TARGET
AUDIENCE
ENDUSER DEVELOPER
DECISION MAKER ADMIN / ARCHITECTS

5. TOPICS
Overview Architecture Managing Roadmap
UI
PowerShell
O365 API
overview
creation flow
management
flow
Idea of
Groups
Components
Experience

7. GROUP PRODUCTIVITY
› Groups are a new feature in Office 365 for communication
and collaboration
› Groups are not based in SharePoint Online or Exchange
Online etc. Groups are an Office 365 feature that use
several components from SharePoint Online, Exchange
Online, Azure and more…
› Groups are a loose coupling of independent services.

8. BENEFIT
SELF-SERVICE
AVAILIBLE FOR
EVERYONE BY
DEFAULT
SHARING WITH
EXTERNAL
USERS
CONTEXT &
HISTORY
TRACKING
SIMPLE TO
MANAGE
SIMPLE TO
ADMINISTER

9. STRUCTURE AND
SERVICES

10. GROUPS EXPERIENCE

12. UPCOMING GROUPS
EXPERIENCE WITH DELVE
Picture is taken from Ignite session: “Office 365 Groups | Overview and Roadmap”

14. GROUPS
› Azure Active Directory is the master
for group identity and membership across
Office 365
› Federated resources – Office 365 services
extend with their data
› Loose coupling - Services notify each other of
changes to a group: creation, delete, update
Exchange
•Mailbox
•Conversations
•Calendar
SharePoint
•OneDrive
•Documents
•OneNote
other
- Group ID
- Resource URLs
- Owners
- Members

15. GROUP CREATION FLOW
Exchange
SharePoint
User creates a
Group using
OWA
Group is
create
via AAD
Graph

16. GROUP MANAGEMENT FLOW
Exchange
SharePoint
Update
Group
via AAD
Graph
Update
Group
Update
Group
Update
Group
FwdSync

18. GROUP MANAGEMENT UX
› Integrated within the Office 365 & Azure Admin UI
› Office 365 Admin
› Azure AD Admin
› OWA
› Exchange Admin

20. POWER SHELL
› All cmdlets execute against Azure AD
› Create, edit, and delete operations are available
› Manage members and owners
› Available to tenant admins

22. OFFICE 365 UNIFIED API (BETA)
› https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/myorganization/groups
› MANAGEMENT
› Create a group
› View a group of a given Id
› show a group members
› Update a group's description
› Delete a group
› /CONVERSATIONS
› Create, read, and delete
› Reply, forward
› /EVENTS
› Read; CRUD
› /FILES
›

25. SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 2015
•Outlook 2016 & mobile app
•Office Graph & Delve integration
•Skype, Dynamics CRM, Yammer
•Planer
•Extensible to third party apps
EXPERIENCES
•eDiscovery & legal hold
•Data Loss Prevention
•Soft-delete & restore
ADMINISTRATION
•Get/Set Group photo
•Full-text searchEXTENSIBILITY

27. Nicki Borell
nb@expertsinside.com
@nickiborell