
Tony Redmond also covered this announcement in a recent Petri article, looking at it from different perspectives, and criticizing the nature of the announcement. Refer to the support document for details of how many Azure AD Premium licenses you’ll need in each scenario. Default classification (you define the classifications, and this setting applies the one you choose to be the default if the user doesn’t specify one).Usage guidelines (literally just adding a URL to direct user to a web page, currently only used in OWA when creating a Group, yet to be added to other Groups-based workloads like Teams, Planner, etc).Groups expiration (a time-based approach to expiring and deleting Groups that the owner no longer wants to keep).

preventing users from creating Groups with names like “CEO” or “Payroll”)

Soft-delete and restore (this is the deleted Group recovery process).View the Groups activities report (intended to help you identify inactive Groups or those not fully utilizing all available features).To summarize, here’s what you can do with Office 365 Groups at no additional cost to your Office 365 subscription: Update: Microsoft has now added a support document explaining which Office 365 Groups features and capabilities required Azure AD Premium licensing. In the other, an MVP briefly described the details as a good thing, because most of their customers who would want the premium features already use Enterprise Mobility + Security which includes Azure AD Premium P1 or P2, depending on which EM+S SKU you purchase. In one session, the Microsoft presenter glossed over it super fast.

This slide was used in at least two sessions that I’ve looked at so far. New features were demoed, tips were shared, roadmaps were revealed.Īmongst all of it there is one slide that really stood out for me. There were a lot of sessions about Office 365 Groups at last month’s Ignite conference.
