Yesterday Microsoft announced that the first phase of the Office 365 groups feature has been released.
What are Office 365 Groups?
Most of the applications across the Office 365 suite have some form of group implementation and to have to sync and manage these across apps requires development. Let’s face it we have SharePoint Groups, Yammer Groups, Exchange Distribution so it was only logical that MS gave us “one way”.
With the introduction of Office 365 Groups MS are now moving to a single unified Groups infrastructure and as I understand this is all made possible with Azure AD Groups. Once it’s fully implemented you will create a group in one 365 App and be able reuse it across them all.
What are you thoughts on the Groups feature? Personally, we’ve been watching this feature for a while as we have plans to use it on our new Cloud App. When this comes to SharePoint, I am also interested to see how Groups manifests itself and how we will be able to do things like assign permissions.
Good stuff.
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I think it’s meant to be a business productivity thing more so than a tool for security so I imagine there’s less to control and govern. However, there will probably be a proliferation of groups in most organizations leading to a need to clean them up.
