Access to email from left tab panel
If there was an Outlook tab integrated on the left, similar to the Meetings tab (which is effectively the Outlook calendar), one could stay in Teams all day and not have to switch out.
Eric Richards
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Adding email as a left tab panel remains under review. We are working on adding several Teams and email integrations:
- Share to Teams: Share a copy of an email and any attachments into a chat or channel directly from Outlook
- Share to Outlook: Share a copy of a channel or chat conversation via email directly from Teams
- Actionable Teams Activity Emails: Teams missed activity emails display the latest replies and allow you to reply directly from Outlook
See this post for more information:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-microsoft-ignite-2019/ba-p/937025.
Thanks!
476 comments
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Anonymous
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This would be better if there was an email tab in teams.
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Anonymous
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I would love to have the same functionality in Teams Calendar as Outlook calendar (e.g. color categories, checking availability, etc.)
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Muhammad
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Must have this feature.
But it would be better if users can have the option to enable or disable outlook panel. This way, those users who feel like this too much function in Team and concerns about memory usage can keep the board disabled.
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Peter
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Funny, I see the same uses requesting this feature complaining loudly in the future when their laptop becomes a Microsoft Teams machine with a browser, Office 365 and Teams and no way to do anything else.
Chromebook for work is a bad idea and making Teams do everything means you will get a chromebook for work.
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pauld
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Please a subset of the Outlook Web experience available in Teams. Doing so would give people one of those vaunted "single pane of glass" experiences, i.e. one place to stay on top of all incoming communications.
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Dave Auyeung
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This will help with uptake. Everyone keeps their email app open, but not everyone keeps Teams open.
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An
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No, Teams already uses 900 MB memory on my 16 GB machine and does not need even more things to waste computer memory.
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Cody Scott
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We have 200+ users now migrated to Teams. We are looking at adding the phone system as well. I agree with others here, and this is a must have to be complete. Even if it is the windows app version aka Mail.
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Tobias Kinzner
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An email-Client embedded in the Teams interface is a must-have for the perfect usability. One program for every communication - inside and outside the organisation.
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Steve Long
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Share to and from Teams is a bandaid fix. Teams would be more highly adopted if an email client was embedded in the Teams interface.
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Sean Westberg
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Share to Outlook for a chat is useless at this point since the web clients don't do threaded conversations inside of chat. You can only send one message to outlook and that's useless.
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josh
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DO THIS
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Jessica Barcelo
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My outlook calendar is SOOO much easier to follow because I have everything color coded. It would be nice for this to transition over to the Teams calendar as well.
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Annie
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Color is absolutely needed. For our area.
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Carol Bordignon
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There is another idea on this (with more votes), please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16925707-access-to-email-from-left-tab-panel
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Anonymous
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give us the ability to pin Outlook (or at least the email part) to the side navigation, like we can with Calendar
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Carol Bordignon
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There is another idea on this (with more votes), please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38487070-colour-categories-in-calendar
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Carol Bordignon
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There is another idea on this (with more votes), please vote here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38487070-colour-categories-in-calendar
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Lori Becker
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As a large training team, we utilize the colors to signify availability and I am not seeing this as an option in the MS teams calendar. Is this something that is in development? If not, we really miss this feature and would like it to sync with what is currently defaulted in our Outlook calendar. We are wanting to completely move over to the use of Teams, but this makes it almost impossible for us.
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Anonymous
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I concur with the others who have commented stating we need the color category feature in Teams Calendar added and to function just like Outlook Calendar Category. Please add as soon as feasibly possible! thank you!