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Start an IM conversation with all members.Pin the Contact Card so it stays open while we look at it. Don’t tell me you didn’t know you could add those too.Īside from listing all the members of the Office 365 Group, what else can we do with it now it is in our Skype contact list? Right-click the group name in the contact list and choose See Contact Card. It’s like one of those good old expanded distribution groups you can add to Skype. If a member is added to the group, they’ll be added to your Skype contacts. It means you don’t need to maintain a list of Skype contacts for the Office 365 Group. Each member of the group is listed under the group, so you can quickly see their online status, and contact each or all of them. What can you do with the Group you have found in your Skype Contacts? Add it to your contacts, and what does that achieve? Look closer. Each Office 365 Group is found, regardless of your choice of communication modality. Yes, even that appears in the search results. Now open up your Skype for Business contact list and type the name of the Outlook group.If you belong to a Yammer group that has received it’s Office 365 Group bits (Team site, notebook, Planner), pick one of those too. If you use Microsoft Teams, pick the name of a Team you use. You know, the Office 365 Group you created from Outlook. I want you to pick the name of an Office 365 Group right now.
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What do you want to call it and who are the members?” Once the distribution group was created, how did we communicate with the group? We emailed the group name. It used to be that we always knocked on IT’s door and asked for a distribution group. But let’s go back to the activity of communicating with the group. You agree on how you will organize, folder structures, naming and storing, even a metadata taxonomy if you’re that way inclined. You talk about the purpose of the group and discuss how you want to communicate with each other. When you want to start a project, you get a group of people together and you name the project. I want you to think of it first and foremost as a way to organize a group of people. Firstly, just stop thinking about Office 365 Groups as a lolly bag of features for a moment. But it’s something of an underused yet convenient integration. In case you missed it, Skype is integrated with Office 365 Groups - with Outlook groups, Yammer and Microsoft Teams.