Office 365 Connectors Rolling Out for Groups

Office 365 Connectors, which enable users to bring external content feeds into Office 365 Groups, are now available to preview customers. Connectors can pull relevant information into a group e-mail box from a variety of sources, including Twitter and some business applications. Teams with an Office 365 Group may find connectors valuable for collaboration on software development projects, providing e-mail and chat-based support from help desk groups or monitoring mentions of a brand in real time. Connectors currently have limitations; for example, they are not available for individual users, feed data in only one direction, and do not yet offer robust management.

New Office 365 Groups Feature

Office 365 Groups offer collaboration work spaces for group members’ text discussions in a shared mailbox, appointments in a shared calendar, and shared work on files and OneNote notebooks in a SharePoint-like document library.

Connectors pull data from external sources and present it within an Office 365 Group. Approximately 50 connectors will be initially available to draw data from sources that include the following: