Office 365 Groups is becoming a backbone of team collaboration: here’s what’s new for April

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Published onApril 6, 2017

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Compared to last month, the Office 365 Team has a ton of new features and enhancements forOffice 365 Groupsavailable in the April 2017 update.Christophe Fiessinger detailsall of the newest additions of the April 2017 update to Office 365 in a new blog post. With over 80 million daily users, Microsoft built Office 365 to deliver the tools needed to enhance efficiency and productivity on one manageable platform.

Office 365 Groups is quickly becoming a backbone of team collaboration using any app they need to use, includingOutlook,SharePoint,Skype for Business,Planner,Yammer,OneNoteandMicrosoft Teams. Office 365 Groups helps enterprise users communicate and collaborate across all of these applications in the easiest way possible.

Starting today, the Office 365 Team added more enhancements in an effort to help IT admins to more easily manage Office 365 Groups.

Fiessinger also pointed out some new features and enhancements on the way for Office 365 Groups in the next few months. Office 365 Groups will be adding a new expiry policy, Azure AD naming policy, default classifications and classification descriptions, and classifications available when creating or modifying a group across Office 365 applications.

Announcing an Office 365 Groups AMA! Join us at 9am PT on April 13, 2017https://t.co/pWthY6Z5kT#Office365Groupspic.twitter.com/THS5BzgTmw

— Christophe Fiessinger (@cfiessinger)April 6, 2017

Fiessinger announced on Twitter that anAMA session on the Microsoft Tech Community will take place on April 13, 2017, at 9:00 AM PDT to discuss these and current and future Office 365 Groups admin features, enhancements, and updates.

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