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Understanding M365 Groups as the Foundation of Collaboration

From a humble home to the mightiest castle, a structure is only as solid as its foundation. For homes, that may be stone, concrete, or the like. For collaboration in Microsoft 365, the foundation is the cloud-only concept of groups. These groups contain individuals who need to work together and own content together that may span multiple tools and systems.

Microsoft 365 groups are the glue and connective tissue to bring these multiple components into a single ecosystem, including SharePoint, Teams, Planner, Stream, Outlook, and connections to external data and software as well. While our goal in the next chapter is to look at what these other tools provide, in this chapter, we will ...

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