Creating a new Microsoft 365 group

Creating a group in Microsoft 365 allows you to manage email distribution, sharing permissions, and collaboration spaces efficiently across a set of users who have common interests. For example, you might create new Microsoft 365 groups for newly formed committees, departments, processes such as onboarding, or even groups with a social purpose, such as a company book club. These newly created groups will have access to a team in Microsoft Teams, the SharePoint site that supports the team, a notebook, a mailbox and calendar in Outlook, and more to help them collaborate and communicate throughout the life cycle of their objectives.

Getting ready

Many administrative roles, including Global Administrator, Groups Administrator, User Administrator, Teams Administrator, SharePoint Administrator, and Exchange Administrator, have the ability to create groups. For this recipe, you’ll need an administrative role with access to the Microsoft 365...