The caveat is that within the Outlook for Mac 2016 UI, you don’t have the ability to “easily” create a new thread in that discussion unless you go and create a new message and then lookup the discussion list name whereas in the Web UI you merely click on “New”.
The interactions with the UI are pretty decent. If you’re used to the web view then you’re probably familiar with something that looks a little more like this: Recently announced, hot off the press, Office 365 Groups are coming to Outlook 2016 for Mac! More about this and what the scope of this release is yonder on the Outlook for Mac Insights blog on 2 March 2017 titled “ Support for Groups in Outlook for Mac.”Ĭaveat, this is by way of the Insider builds fast ring at the moment, so if you’re a corporate user and you’re wondering where this is, give it sometime and keep on accessing groups through either a Windows VM in your favorite hypervisor on Mac (whether that be Parallels, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion) or through Safari / Chrome / Firefox.
