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Microsoft 365 Groups facilitate efficient collaboration between the members of an organization. Administrator can create a group and add various members to it. The membership gives access to multiple resources that are available for shared use. It is basically a membership service that includes the following applications-
Groups remove the requirement for manual permission assignment to each user as a member can easily access all the resources mentioned above from the Group. As soon as the members are added to the Group, they receive the permissions automatically. Each user gets a definite role to manage Group more effectively.
Due to the benefits and flexibility of Microsoft 365 applications and its convenient features like Microsoft 365 Groups, many people like to migrate their professional data to it. It is one of the common reasons to move from G Suite to Office 365. If you are using Google Workspace and want to move directly to Office 365 Groups, you can use Kernel G Suite to Office 365 Migration tool. It has a special option to migrate content to Office 365 Groups.
After the migration, you can see the data in Office 365 Groups.
Q. What are the limitations that a user should know before going through the migration?
A. You should know the limitations of Microsoft Groups before migrating to data in it. Although the upper limit is quite high, you should know about them.
Maximum | Value |
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Owners for a single Group | 1001 |
Maximum Groups a user can create | 250 |
Maximum groups an administrator can create | The administrator gets the upper tenant limit to 500 K |
Maximum number of members in Group | Although there can be more than 1000 members in the Group, only the first thousand can access the message conversations.
The remaining users will get some delays in accessing the calendar and conversations. |
Maximum number of groups a user can join | 7000 |
File Storage | 1 Terabyte, and the user can purchase more space with some extra payment. |
Group Mailbox Size | 50 GB |
A- You should purchase such a subscription plan that has Exchange Online and SharePoint Online in it.
A- 1- First, go to the Exchange admin center. Then expand Groups. Click Groups.
2- Select Add Group and provide the necessary details. Select Create Group.
Microsoft 365 Groups are quite helpful for any business that want to share multiple resources among their employees. The upper limit for sharing is also higher; so, you can add hundreds of members and share resources with them.
This KernelApps software will help you move your G Suite data to Microsoft Group directly. The software has the special option to choose the only Group as the destination. It supports all G Suite and Office 365 plans too. You can consider this migration as an upgrade rather than Google Workspace Backup job.