Microsoft 365 Groups are shared resources linked to Outlook groups, SharePoint sites and Team sites. Any Wesleyan employee or students may create a Microsoft Group to collaborate over Teams chat, store shared documents and communicate via email to their team members.
See Microsoft's support pages about Microsoft 365 Groups:
Learn about Microsoft 365 Groups
Create a group in Outlook
Create a team site in SharePoint
By default, all Wesleyan Microsoft Groups have the email address domain of @wesleyan0.onmicrosoft.com. Employees may request an @wesleyan.edu email address be used as an alias for distributing Wesleyan-addressed messages to the group's members.
Manage group members using Outlook on the Web
If you are an Owner (or creator) of a Microsoft 365 Group, you may manage who has access to the group's shared resources.
To add grouper members using Outlook on the web, (https://outlook.office.com/) navigate to the People tab and open the Owner from the side menu. Then, right-click on the group and choose "Add members".
Optionally, you may use the "Edit" feature to change a group's settings:
- Name and description - shown to members who are added/ invited to join
- Privacy setting - decide if only members, or any Wesleyan person, may see the group's resources (files, and email messages)
- External email settings - allow external non-wesleyan.edu email addresses to send email to the group members
- Subscription - have new members receive all group emails directly to their email inbox.
New members accessing past email messages
Microsoft 365 Groups retain a copy of all messages sent to the group email address. This appears similar to Shared Mailboxes, however 365 Groups do not have most features available to traditional mailboxes such as folders, rules and automatic replies.
While current group members receive a copy of incoming messages to their inbox, new members may view received messages that existed prior them joining the group. This is available under the Groups navigation section in Outlook.
We hope you have found this information helpful!
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