- [Instructor] In addition to creating a team from scratch,
you can create a team from an existing Office 365 group.
A likely reason to do this
would be that you've been using Office 365 Groups
for collaboration, and now you are moving to Teams.
And you've decided as part of the transition
to take some or even all of your Office 365 groups
and port them over so that they are in Teams.
To do this we choose Create or Join a team.
In Teams, Create team
and then rather than choosing to build from scratch,
we click Create from.
And we can create a team from an existing team,
or create a team from an Office 365 Group.
Creating a team from a team is usually part of cleanup.
We can create a team from an Office 365 Group
as long as two things are true,
the Office 365 Group hasn't been used already
to create a team,
and there are not more than 5,000 members to this group.
The Office 365 Group that I want to add to teams
is Service-to-Sales.
I simply select it from my list
of existing Office 365 Groups and click Create.
Note that the group has already been added,
and it has a General channel here in Teams.
This works for groups that were created in SharePoint Online
or in Outlook.
This does not work at this time
for groups that were created in Yammer.
But in SharePoint, where this group was originally created,
if I choose Service-to-Sales,
this group is still here in SharePoint as well.
By creating this group also as a team,
we have access to all of the benefits of having a team
for the group that already existed
in Office 365 in SharePoint.