Learn how Microsoft 365 Groups interact with Teams, SharePoint, and other Microsoft services to maximize ShareGate in your Microsoft 365 environment.

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

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

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

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's article, Microsoft 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams.