Microsoft 365 Group Overview

Your confirm governance details task experience may vary depending on your IT administrator’s configurations:

  • New landing page – If you see intake questions at the bottom of the page, you are on the new landing page. Refer to the New Landing Page section below for details.

    NOTE

    When there are no available intake questions, the Confirm governance details button is displayed in the lower-right corner of the page.

  • Classic landing page – If you see the Confirm governance details button in the upper-right corner, you are on the classic landing page. Refer to the Classic Landing Page section below for details.

NOTE

Contacts and users labeled as “Inactive” are those who have either been blocked from signing in or deleted from Microsoft 365.

New Landing Page

Before starting the confirm details process, you may see one or both of the following intake questions based on your IT administrator’s configurations:

  1. Are you responsible for this group?

    • Yes – You will proceed to the next intake question, or the confirm details process will begin.

    • No – The I am not responsible for this task window appears and you may see one of the following contents based on your IT administrator’s configuration.

      • If your organization allows you to reassign or skip the task:

        • To reassign the task, choose I’m not the correct assignee, but I know who is responsible for this confirmation and specify the new assignee.

        • To skip the task, choose I'm not the correct assignee, and I don't know who is responsible for this confirmation.

        Click OK to proceed.

      • If your IT administrator only allows you to skip the task, click OK in the confirmation window to skip the task.

      • If your IT administrator only allows you to reassign the task, specify the new assignee and click OK.

    • Cancel – This will exit the task without changes.

  2. Do you still need this group?

    • Yes – The confirm details process will begin.

    • No – In the Delete this group window, click Delete if you no longer require the group.

    • Cancel – This will exit the task without changes.

While answering the intake questions, you can view the following group information:

  • Primary contact

  • Last active time

  • Storage (consumed)

  • Owners

  • External users

In the upper-right corner of the page, you can:

  • Click View details to see additional group details in the View details panel.

  • Click View group to open the group in a new tab.

Classic Landing Page

Before you start confirming governance details of the Microsoft 365 Group, you can:

  • View group details – You can click View details below the group name and view the group’s detailed information in the View details panel.

  • Open workspace – You can click View group below the group name to open the group in a new tab.

  • Enable reminder later – Click Remind me later if you don’t want to confirm the governance details right now and want to enable a reminder. Then, the Reminder email window appears asking for your confirmation. Click OK, and a confirmation task reminder email will be sent to you in 24 hours.

  • Confirm details –You may reassign the confirm governance details task if you are no longer responsible for the group or request the group to be deleted if you no longer need it. Based on your IT administrator’s configuration, you may see one or more of the following links below the page:

  • Delete this group – Click this link if you want to delete this group.

  • I am not responsible for this task – You may see one of the following contents based on your IT administrator’s configuration.

    • If your organization allows you to reassign and skip the task, choose Reassign task to and specify the assignee to reassign the task, or choose I'm not the correct assignee, and I don't know who is responsible for this confirmation to skip the task.

    • If your IT administrator only allows you to skip the task, click OK in the confirmation window to skip the task.

  • Reassign this task – Click this link, specify a new assignee, and click OK to reassign this task.

  • View group ownership – You can view the group ownership information in the Ownership area.

  • View member statistics – You can view the following member statistics information in the Member statistics area:

  • Owners – The number of owners of the group.

  • Members – The number of members of the group.

  • View Group Activity Information – You can view the following group activity information in the Activity area:

  • Last active time

  • Storage

To confirm the Microsoft 365 Group governance details, click Confirm governance details.