Office365 has many ways to
collaborate. Microsoft Teams and
Microsoft Groups are just two of
the features available and until
recently Microsoft Groups were
recommended for small team
collaboration. At this time, we
are now promoting the use of
Microsoft Teams to collaborate
within small teams of users.
More features are available in a
Microsoft Team including
messaging!
Read our FAQ
Standards
Quick link to Naming Standard
Need to ramp up quickly on using
Microsoft Teams? Check out these resources:
Microsoft Group Features
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Shared Inbox - For email conversations between your members.
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Shared Calendar - For scheduling events related to the group
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SharePoint Document Library - A central place for the group to store and share files with checkin/checkout and version history capabilities.
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Shared OneNote Notebook - For gathering ideas, research, and information
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SharePoint Team Site - A central repository for information, links and content relating to your group
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Planner - For assigning and managing project tasks among your group members
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Each of these features are automatically created when a Microsoft Group is created and are accessible using already familiar products like Office (Outlook, OneNote, etc) from your desktop, from a web browser using OWA or using a mobile app.
- Files can be synced to your desktop for easy file access using the OneDrive for Business client.
Microsoft Team Features
- A Microsoft Team is a "chat
based workplace" built on top of
a Microsoft Group. So you get
all the functionality of a group
plus
features like messaging, screen
sharing and support for
meetings.
- Microsoft Teams allows you
to organize your files,
communication and meetings by
topic by creating "channels".
Each channel gets a unique email
address, calendar, file location, OneNote
notebook section, etc.
- Team members must
use the Microsoft Team app in
order to get full functionality
from a Microsoft Team.
Restrictions
- Microsoft
Teams and Groups will soon need to be
renewed every 6 months or else
they will be deleted. 30 days
after deletion, they will be
unrecoverable. Owners will
receive email notification when
they need to renew their group.
- All Microsoft Teams
and Groups need to comply with the
Office365 Standards
including:
- not storing DCL3 data; and
- using the
naming standard
when creating a
group/team
Resources