Office 365 Planner and Office 365 Groups Deep Dive

MARTINA GROMCEO, @MAGROM

LEARN ABOUT OFFICE 365 PLANNER AND OFFICE 365 GROUPS

Office 365 GroupsOffice Graph

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• Connecting teams thru modern experiences & enabling choiceIntelligent fabric

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Public by default

Key benefits

Self-service

Sharing to non-members

Context & history

Single definition

Simple to manage

GROUPS OVERVIEW

Groups in Outlook 2016Participate 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 appAvailable 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

Power BICreate a workspace to collaborate with your team.

Leverage the Groups collaboration &

communication capabilities to create and review insights.

Groups in Power BI

Office 365 PlannerCreate 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

Dynamics CRMCreate Office 365 Groups for opportunities, cases, accounts and all other entities.

Groups experiences are surfaced in-context within

CRM

Deploy Office 365 Groups

GROUPS ADMINISTRATION

Managing GroupsAdmin UI Office 365 admin center AAD control panel Office 365 Admin appScripted 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

Add-UnifiedGroupLinksGet-UnifiedGroupGet-UnifiedGroupLinksNew-UnifiedGroupRemove-UnifiedGroupRemove-UnifiedGroupLinksSet-UnifiedGroup

Use PowerShell to manage Office 365 Groups & http://powershell.office.com/ Convert an Exchange distribution group to an Office 365 Group

Groups Policy controlsNaming 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 overrideGroup 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

New-OwaMailboxPolicy –Name “<policy name>” Set-OwaMailboxPolicy –Identity “<policy name>” –GroupCreationEnabled $falseSet-CASMailbox –Identity <user> -OWAMailboxPolicy “<policy name>”

Groups REST API

Office 365 unified API overview Office 365 Groups REST API reference Deep Dive into the Office 365 Groups API - Hands On Labs

Events

Files

Management Conversations

1. Create industry/vertical specific solutions2. Connect line of business apps with

Groups

Office 365 Groups Hybrid SupportOffice 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 directoryAAD Premium is requiredExchange 2013 CU9 required (individual mailboxes are on-premises)

Resources:• Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory • Office 365 Groups write back

PLANNER OVERVIEW

NOW YOU KNOW ABOUT OFFICE 365 PLANNER AND OFFICE 365 GROUPS

Call to Action• Consider Usecases for Groups• Start Task Management with Planner• Use Planner for simple Task Management

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