An outline of various online resources for Office 365 Groups from Microsoft and across the global community. Refreshed regularly, so please provide links to additional content you would like to see included within the comments below.

What are Office 365 Groups?

Groups in Office 365 brings together features of People, Conversations, and Content across an organisation’s users of Office 365. By providing an integrated experience that links together email conversations, file storage, and calendar event management, Groups create an integrated experience for teams to focus on group activity. Groups can be public to enable information sharing across a whole organisation, or private for teams that require restricted access. (Univ. of St. Andrews)

Office 365 Groups are the fabric connecting Office 365 products – allowing businesses to use the right tools, with the right people, in the right place.

Getting Started

• Using Office 365 Groups – Interactive Guide, Microsoft
• Top 5 features of Office 365 Groups, Gregory Zelfond
• How to Use Office 365 Groups, Sharegate video
• One Drive for Business: Using Groups for Team Work, Univ. of St. Andrews
• Office 365 Groups update at Ignite 2016, Christophe Fiessinger

Business Value

• Office 365 Groups Explained, Benjamin Niaulin
• Will Groups Impact Your Organization?, CollabTalk tweetjam
• Gauging the Organizational Impact of Office 365 Groups, CollabTalk tweetjam summary
• Office 365 Groups – What you Get and What to Use, Benjamin Niaulin
• Help your users collaborate better with Office 365 Groups (Top 10 ways to improve end user engagement), Maithili Dandige and Krish Gali, Microsoft Ignite 2016
• Teamwork with Microsoft Office 365 Groups, Thino Ullmann

Deployment, Administration and Governance

• Administering Office 365 Groups – Interactive Guide, Microsoft Labs
• Collaborate with your colleagues using Office 365 Groups, Microsoft
• Configure Office 365 Groups with on-premises Exchange hybrid, Microsoft
• First Steps: Configuring Office 365 Groups Settings, Paul Cunningham
• Office 365 Groups vs Teams: How to Successfully Deploy Both, Loryan Strant
• Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups, Panel discussion at Ignite 2016 with Martina Grom, Darrel Webster, Eric Zenz, and Christophe Fiessinger
• Explore the ultimate field guide to Microsoft Office 365 Groups, Panel discussion at Ignite 2016 with Tony Redmond, Benjamin Niaulin, and Amit Gupta
• Using Office 365 Groups / Teams and Webhooks to Monitor Systems, Paul Schaeflein
• Office 365 Groups external sharing – how it works, Gregory Zelfond
• Collaborate outside the firewall with Office 365 Groups, Shashi Singaravel at Ignite 2016
• Bringing Compliance to Office 365 Groups, Tony Redmond
• Dear Microsoft: In Office 365, Groups are Groups are Groups – Unless They Aren’t, Marc Anderson
• More Granular Permissions for Office 365 Groups: A Work in Progress?, Mac Anderson
• Get the Latest on Office 365 Groups – Overview, What’s New and Roadmap, Christophe Fiessinger, Ignite Australia 2017
• Manage Microsoft Office 365  Groups, Eric Zenz and Vince Smith, Ignite 2016
• Upgrade distribution lists to Office 365 Groups in Outlook, Office support
• Connect your business critical applications to Outlook and Groups, David Claux and Sohail Zafar at Ignite 2016
• Beware the Office 365 Group -Based Site Regional Settings!!!, Marc Anderson
• View When You Deleted an Office 365 Group, Drew Madelung
• Restore a deleted Office 365 Group, Office support

Useful Tips, Best Practices, Office Integrations

• Four best practices for leveraging Office 365 Groups, Shyam Oza, Online Magazine
• Learn what to use when: Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Team Sites, Yammer, and OneDrive for Business, Richard Harbridge at Ignite 2016
• Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer… What Should I Use, and When?, Dux Raymond Sy and Richard Barrett
• Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Yammer… What Should I Use, and When?, AvePoint blog
• Collaboration options: Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer, Mike Bosse
• Are Office 365 Groups Displacing Yammer?, CollabTalk tweetjam
• Focusing on Office 365 Groups, CollabTalk tweetjam summary
• Manage your projects with Office 365 Groups and Planner, Microsoft, Product Guide
• Groups in Outlook vs Microsoft Teams vs SharePoint Online vs Yammer, Jeremy Thake
• Yammer integration with Office 365 Groups now rolling out, Office team blog
• Yammer and Office 365 Groups, Office support
• Office 365 Groups vs Yammer: How Microsoft has Combined the Two, AvePoint
• Introducing Groups in Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android, Office team blog
• Skype’s subtle integration with Office 365 Groups – Outlook, Yammer and Teams, Darrell Webster

Latest Updates

• Office 365 Roadmap, Microsoft
• Office 365: A guide to the updates, Computerworld
• What’s New In Office 365 Groups for April 2017, Office 365 Team

Community/Support

• Learn About Office 365 Groups, Microsoft support site
• User Voice — Office 365 Groups, feedback on features
• Microsoft Tech Community – Office 365 Groups