The relationship between Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, and other services

Learn how Microsoft 365 Groups interact with Teams, SharePoint, and other Microsoft services to get the most out of ShareGate in your Microsoft 365 environment.

Index

• Microsoft 365 Groups
• The relationship between Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, and other services
• Manage your Teams and groups with ShareGate

Microsoft 365 Groups

A Microsoft 365 group is a membership service in Active directory that allows you to connect multiple Microsoft 365 teamwork services. By default, a group will always provide a select group of users access to these shared services:

• Exchange inbox and calendar
• SharePoint team site
• Planner
• Power BI
• Stream

A group can also provide your group of users access to these other services:

• Teams
• Yammer
• Project for the web
• Roadmap

For more information on groups, see Learn about Microsoft 365 Groups.

The relationship between Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, and other services

Teams is a chat-based collaboration hub based on the foundation of Microsoft 365 Groups. It was created to facilitate teamwork in the Microsoft productivity suite.

The graphic below illustrates the relationship between Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, and other services.

In this example, Teams is the hub for teamwork, SharePoint provides content storage and file sharing capabilities, Exchange provides a shared inbox and calendar, Planner provides a task-based workflow, and Microsoft 365 Groups unites these services in the background by managing how users can access these services through shared permissions and security settings.

For more information about groups and teams, see Microsoft 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams.

Manage your teams and groups with ShareGate

In the ShareGate migration tool, you can list all your Microsoft 365 groups.

You can also determine if a group is connected to a team in the Explorer and you can get a list of all your groups connected to a team with a custom report.

You can find instructions for both scenarios below:

How to check if a group is connected to a team from the Explorer

1. In the ShareGate migration tool, select Explorer from the sidebar.
2. If you're not already connected to your tenant, connect to your tenant with your Central admin URL.
3. Click
4. Select a single group.
5. From the Quick actions menu, scroll to the Is team connected property.

This property will say Yes if your group is connected to a team and No if it is not connected to a team.

How to create a custom report to get a list of your groups connected to a team

1. In the ShareGate migration tool, select All reports from the sidebar.
2. Click Create custom report.
3. From the Object type dropdown, select Microsoft 365 group.
4. In the Filters section, select Is team connected, is, yes with the dropdowns.
5. In the Columns section, you can add properties such as Owners, Members, and Privacy to get more information about your team-connected groups in your report.
6. Click Continue without Saving if the report is one-time use.
7. Click Save and Continue if you will need the report again, or if you would like to automate the report with scheduling. 
8. Select the target of your report.
9. Click Next.
10. Set your options.
11. Click Schedule (available if you saved your report) or Run now.

Note: Because a team is always connected to a group, this custom report will provide you with a list of all the teams in your environment.

Membership and security settings

Since the membership and security settings of a team are provided from a Microsoft 365 group, you can make changes to a group in the ShareGate migration tool and these changes will affect your connected team as well.

To edit the membership or security settings of a team, select the associated group in Explorer, and you will be able to modify these settings in the quick action menu at the right.

For more information about membership and permissions, see The membership between Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, Planner, and SharePoint.

Tip: You can find new ways to manage your teams and groups in ShareGate Management that is included with your ShareGate subscription. For more information, see ShareGate Management docs.