Office 365: Actualización en los requerimientos de licenciamiento para Grupos de Office 365!

Aunque este ha sido un tema que ha generado polémica y bastantes discusiones desde que Microsoft anunció sus intenciones en la conferencia de Microsoft Ignite, ya tenemos una confirmación oficial de las implicaciones a nivel de licenciamiento que tendremos en función de las características de Grupos de Office 365 que queramos usar. El resumen de dichas implicaciones es el siguiente:

Description	AAD: Free	AAD: Office 365 version	AAD: Basic	AAD: Premium P1	License req.	Availability
Create, read, update, delete Basic functionality for Office groups	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None – Free feature	Available
Group activities report Admin can view group usage in their organization	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None – Free feature	Available
Soft-delete and restore Admin can restore a deleted group up to 30 days after deletion.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None – Free feature	Public Preview
Tenant-wide self-service group creation controls Admin can allow or block group creation for all users in the tenant.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None – Free feature	Available
Hidden membership Admin can hide membership for a group from all non-members.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	None – Free feature	Available
Dynamic group membership Admin can define group membership based on user attributes, and membership is then managed dynamically.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group within tenant.	Public Preview
Granular self-service group creation controls Admin can allow a subset of users in the tenant (defined by a security group) to create groups.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group linked with GroupCreationAllowedGroupId	Public Preview
Group Naming Policy Admin can provide naming convention for groups by automatically appending strings and user attributes to the group name, email and alias, and also block specific words				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group within tenant.	Private Preview
Group Expiry* Admin can define lifetime for groups. If the group owner does not renew the group, the group is deleted.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group affected by a group’s expiration policy.	Public Preview
Usage Guidelines Admin can submit a URL that is displayed as a hyperlink on group creation pages that takes users to the group usage guidelines for the organization.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group within tenant.	Public Preview
Default classification Admin can define a set of data classifications (for example, low, medium, high) and set one as default. Group owners can assign classification values to their group.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group within tenant.	Public Preview
Self-service group management via myapps.microsoft.com Users can manage groups and group membership requests via the Azure Active Directory Access Panel at myapps.microsoft.com.				Yes	Each user that is also a member of a group within tenant.	Available

+ Información: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-about-Office-365-Groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2#ID0EAADAAA=Feature_availability_and_licensing