What to use when for file sharing in Office 365.
Covers SharePoint Team sites, Microsoft Groups, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams and Skype for business.
Some tools to help you think through your collaboration planning, and how to get the most out of Office 365.
2. Director of Cloud2
• 21 years in intranets and knowledge management
• Founder of Cloud2, SharePoint User GroupYorkshire
• Designed the first Out of the Box SharePoint intranet
• Physics, Medical Devices, International Marketing &
KM background
Simon Hudson
simon.hudson@cloud2.co.uk @simonjhudson / @cloud2ltd
3. Digital transformation specialists:
Digital workplaces
Portals
Applications
eProcesses and eForms
Intranets
Analytics
Office 365 and Azure
Enable digital transformation
@Cloud2ltd
4. Director of ClearBox Consulting
• 18 years intranet and digital workplace
• Former global portal manager at Unilever
• Consulted on over 100 intranets
• Comms, KM & IT background
Sam Marshall
sam@clearbox.co.uk @sammarshall
5. v
• Intranet, SharePoint and digital
workplace
• Strategy
• Governance
• Collaboration
• Communities
• Adoption
• Training
• Practical experience
• Transparent
• Vendor-neutral
8. Digital
transformation
is driving
growth
More than 300,000 organizations have SharePoint
and OneDrive in Office 365, including 85% of the
Fortune 500
More than 65% of all SharePoint seats are now online
(vs. 35% for on-premises licenses)
Growth in active users was 90% in the last year alone
Customers are strongly adopting OneDrive
technologies, with 300% growth in file sync
Microsoft recognized as leaders by analysts in six
Gartner Magic Quadrants and Forrester Waves
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9. Introduction
With so many collaboration options on Office 365, it can
be hard to know where content should sit, and how to
guide employees to making the right choices. In this joint
webinar between Cloud2 and ClearBox Consulting, we
explore the options available and give practical advice on
managing files and team collaboration within Office 365.
• What we'll cover:
• What is good practice for storing and sharing documents on Office 365
• How to explain Groups and Teams to people used to SharePoint team
sites
• Should collaborative documents ever live on OneDrive?
• Collaborating without using documents at all
10. Making sense of O365 content and collaboration
options
Simon Hudson
simon.hudson@cloud2.co.uk @simonjhudson / @cloud2ltd
11. O365 suite
EmailExchange Online
Real time communicationsSkype for Business
Personal file server in the cloudOneDrive for Business
Enterprise Intranet & application platformSharePoint Online
Corporate social networking and communicationsYammer
Corporate Discovery and insightsDelve
Corporate VideoStream
Chat/email-centric team collaborationMicrosoft Teams/O365 Groups
Document editing and viewingOffice Online
Simple workflow and triggered eventsFlow
Simple forms and mobile appsPowerApps
Content presentationSway
Business intelligence and reportingPower BI
Task and project managementPlanner
12. O365 suite
EmailExchange Online
Real time communicationsSkype for Business
Personal file server in the cloudOneDrive for Business
Enterprise Intranet & application platformSharePoint Online
Corporate social networking and communicationsYammer
Corporate Discovery and insightsDelve
Corporate VideoStream
Chat/email-centric team collaborationMicrosoft Teams/O365 Groups
Document editing and viewingOffice Online
Simple workflow and triggered eventsFlow
Simple forms and mobile appsPowerApps
Content presentationSway
Business intelligence and reportingPower BI
Task and project managementPlanner
13. Communication
Collaboration
Content
Business Process
People
Group email and
collaboration
Group chat and
collaboration
Intranet sites, document
management, processes
Corporate video
hub
IM, voice and video
meetings
Corporate social
network: collaboration&
announcements
Rich presentations
& brochureware
Office 365 elements and the functions of a digital hub
Note: the amount the vertical bars extend into the functional lines indicates how strong the element supports the function
CRM
Personal &
shared notes
Visio
Process
visualisation
Personal file storage
(with sharing)
Simple workflow
creation
Simple project
management
Business
Intelligence reports
& dashboards
Apps (mobile and
SharePoint) &
Forms
Simple forms
Full Project
Management
Outlook Calendar
Online
Outlook Contacts
Online
Outlook Email
Online
People profiles &
content discovery
16. Office 365 Groups (aka Outlook Groups)
Accessed from
• Microsoft Outlook 2016
desktop client,
• Outlook Web Access
• Outlook mobile
• Apps on iOS, Android or
Windows Phone
Connect to…
• Yammer Group == O365 Group
• Internal and External members
Inbox
SharePoint
Site
Calendar
Notebook
Planner
Not extensible – upgrade into SharePoint
17. Microsoft Teams
Accessed from
• Waffle menu
• https://teams.microsoft.com/_
• Desktop App
• Mobile App
• iOS, Android Windows Phone
Connect to…
• Internal and External members
• Team Connectors
• including SharePoint
Resources
Real Time
Chat
(Skypeish)
SharePoint
Site
Notebook
Wiki
Add-ins and
Connectors
No easy way get back to O365 – “where’s the waffle”
20. How else to get to your stuff –
OneDrive and Outlook Experience
• Sites & Groups in OD4B
• Libraries in OD4B
• Groups in Outlook
• Library in Groups
23. Making the choice for Content and Collaboration
Keep your own stuff in
OneDrive for Business
If appropriate, put it in a
"Shared with Team", etc.
subfolder to make it available
to your colleagues
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Put Team and Project content
in the relevant site on your
intranet
This could be a Microsoft Team
or Office 365 Group if you don’t
need sophisticated processes,
metadata and control or a
SharePoint Site if you do
2
Publish stuff you don’t expect
people to collaborate on in an
intranet publishing site
Such as the Communications
Department News site or a
Document Centre
Add Yammer to allow some
collaboration
3
To share externally build a
dedicated extranet
Use a SharePoint site for
control and process.
Use Teams or Groups for rich,
but simple needs
Consider OneDrive for Business
for non-sensitive file sharing
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If it isn’t a document, or you
just want to talk about a
document, use Yammer
Use Skype for Business if you
need to talk in real-time (Teams
in future)
If all else fails there is always
email
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24. Don’t Panic
There are only five places users need to
remember, because there are only five types
of content:
• My stuff
• My Team’s stuff
• Project stuff
• Corporate stuff
• things that belong to the company as a
whole and are probably someone else’s
problem)
• Miscellaneous stuff
• Which is probably one of the first
four, but for someone else; you just
need to find the right person
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25. What to use when : collaboration styles
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Sam Marshall
31. Collaboration Styles
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Embedded Process
• Outcomes well known &
understood
• Rules defined and
agreed
• Few exceptions
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
Examples:
• HR request forms
• Facility Bookings
• Checklists
• Rota scheduling
Expert Process Rich Collaboration
32. Collaboration Styles
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Expert Process
• Outcomes well known &
understood
• Process relies on
experience and practice
• Many possible
exceptions
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
• Surveying
• Diagnosis
• Insurance
underwriting
• Health & Safety
assessment
Embedded Process Ad-hoc interaction
33. Collaboration Styles
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Expert Process Rich Collaboration
Embedded Process Ad-hoc interaction
• Outcome simple to
explain
• Process tacit
• Mostly co-ordination
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
• Information requests
• Status Updates
• Informal planning
34. Collaboration Styles
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Expert Process Rich Collaboration
• Outcome exploratory
• Route to answer
uncertain
• Innovation
Embedded Process Ad-hoc interaction
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
• Product development
• System
implementation
• Service design
35. Collaboration Styles
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Expert Process
• Outcomes well known &
understood
• Process relies on
experience and practice
• Many possible
exceptions
Rich Collaboration
• Outcome exploratory
• Route to answer
uncertain
• Innovation
Embedded Process
• Outcomes well known &
understood
• Rules defined and
agreed
• Few exceptions
Ad-hoc interaction
• Outcome simple to
explain
• Process tacit
• Mostly co-ordination
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
36. Collaboration Styles - Tools
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Expert Process
• Workflow tools
• Data manipulation
• Search & reference
• Checklists
• Customised tools
(e.g. Excel macros)
Rich Collaboration
• Document versioning
• Joint viewing & editing
• Online discussions
• Group knowledge
management
• Status sharing
Embedded Process
• Online Forms
• Notifications
• Status tracking
• Process documentation
Ad-hoc interaction
• Simple comms (IM,
email, phone)
• Info-sharing (Dropbox
etc.)
• Social networks
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
37. Collaboration Styles - Tools
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Expert Process
• Nintex / K2
• Power BI
• Excel
• Specialist tools (CRM,
ELN, Case Mgmnt.)
Rich Collaboration
• SharePoint
• Office
• Teams
• Yammer
Embedded Process
• Forms
• Flow
• Nintex / K2
• InfoPath
Ad-hoc interaction
• Skype
• OneDrive
• Yammer
EVOLVING
SIMPLE
STABLE
COMPLEX
42. What do you use the wiki for?
Actually, not much. It’s really simple, doesn’t have actual [[wiki ]]
functionality and is little more than an html editable page.
We would always use the OneNote notes in preference
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43. We have large SharePoint sites with lots of Team Sites, manly for file
storage/sharing. What becomes of Team Sites after migrating to 365? I
understand they will not be a Team or a Group. I think perhaps they
become the new definition of the SharePoint button on the tile
dashboard...?
SharePoint sites (including those provided as team, department etc. sites)
are not affected when you move to O365. They don’t automatically become
Teams or Groups.
You can enable Modern features in the sites you migrate.
It is possible/likely, in future, that you can hook up a Group/Team to an
existing site; however right now the fact that Teams/Groups are in individual
Site Collections means it isn’t currently possible.
Per Sam’s analysis, Teams/Groups might well become the simple team
collaboration sites for many organisations, where there is little need for
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44. We're keen to switch on Teams for our organisation of nearly 15000
people... any tips for things we should be doing in preparation of that?
What about ways to provision and ensure there is no duplication?
Think carefully about the lack of visibility and governance that currently exists.
Have a plan for that (perhaps with a query on an admin page to show all Groups,
recent groups etc – that’s what we are developing), backed by a policy and a
process for reviewing what is being created.
Check out what you might do with PowerShell etc to manage the creation process.
Develop a plan for which experience is needed for which sites – Groups and
Teams serve a similar purpose but look and feel quite different and the Inbox (with
shared calendar) feels very different to the chat experience.
Check that a single library is sufficient for what the team needs – you can add
more in the SharePoint site, but these have to be manually added to the Teams
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45. Custom Workflows have always been a nightmare. To what extent are
365 Forms an improvement and can other users create/administer
them?
They are still a nightmare!
Forms, Flow and PowerApps are all simple tools (in keeping with the other
simple tools Microsoft are putting in O365). If you have a simple need they
are great, but you will experience them ‘fall off a cliff’ when you try to do
anything complex.
Use them for the right job and you are in a good place.
Beware the serious limitations of Flow and PowerApps with SharePoint right
now – all sorts of fields types and properties are simply not accessible. Microsoft
are enhancing them for SharePoint use however (at least that’s what they have
promised).
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