Distribution Lists in Teams
In Skype for Business client I can add a Distribution List as a Contact Group.
Can we have this feature in Teams?
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Anonymous
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a distribution group would be great!
We used skype to relay message to a group of employee at another site. This means that I am already part of 20 teams & I expect this to increase as colleagues each make an individual group. This doesn't include all the individual chats that are happening! It will be very easy to miss messages.
When these "teams" imported from skype, only the group name appeared. All the membership was lost! What good does it do for me to know that I had a group, but not to know who was in it! -
Anonymous
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Would it be possible for Microsoft Teams to be able to send messages to distribution lists? Adding tens to hundreds of names is extremely time consuming and can lead to missed messages, etc. This would be a great fix!
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Anonymous
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Why is it not possible to add several participants to the Teams channel? instead, we have to manually over 1000 participants (who aren't on mailing list), and it's not possible to put more than one name/email address :-( Thank you for addressing this issue 🙏🙏
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Anonymous
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The inability to have Distribution Lists is a huge downfall of Microsoft Teams especially in an organization with thousands of employees. I find Teams to be not user friendly and time consuming when needing to message a large group of people.
Please fix this issue. Thank you. -
Tim Rech
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Distribution Lists in Teams
In Skype for Business client I can add a Distribution List as a Contact Group.
Can we have this feature in Teams?
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Anonymous
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Microsoft must add in capability to use Outlook distribution lists in Teams like we can use them in Skype! We use these for group skype messages AND MOST IMPORTANT for member current status. Users do not need to manage their own lists (as almost always they can be unaware of changing membership). This is a big step backward for Teams
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Cara Berry
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We REALLY need distribution lists. In an organization of thousands of people with hundreds of specific groups, it is so difficult to contact everyone we might need to at once. Please fix this. Skype was so much better for this specific reason.
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Kristina Pascuzzi
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PLEASE add back distribution lists in Teams. When you work for a very large organization (in my case, large hospital system) I don't know who is assigned to specific tasks on a day-by-day or week-by-week basis. Being able to message a distribution list eliminates this completely...the person assigned to the task responds and those who aren't ignore the message. Distribution lists make work life so much easier, esp when you can't quickly "walk down the hall" to figure this out yourself.
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Anonymous
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please add functionality so that Microsoft teams is able to message distribution groups. We had this previously with skype and it was very useful.
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Mark Andresic
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Our operations are completely crippled without the ability to message Distribution Groups! The lack of response on a solution or patch from Microsoft on this is very troubling. Please fix this ASAP! As-is, Teams is a much INFERIOR product to Skype for Business!!!!
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Anonymous
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I agree completely! Ironic, that a product that is called "Teams" is not able to efficiently allow teams to communicate with each other. I think it is a major failure that Microsoft is completely quite on this. and not responding to their customers. This is NOT a minor issue - it is a large gap. The irony of calling this product "Teams" - when it doesn't allow inter-team communications is a glaring gap that needs to be addressed.
Of course, Microsoft didn't include a means of centrally managing pre-populated contacts with Skype either, so they are consistently failing.
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Anonymous
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As the deadline for SfB approaches, we need this feature to migrate. Just do it!
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Anonymous
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This feature is very helpful and would help ease the transition from Skype to Teams. Please add it to Teams ASAP.
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Norm Mourtada
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please add DL to Teams so you can easily create a chat group using the DL, rather than having to add each user's email address from the DL.
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Sean
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Its kind of crazy Teams doesn't have support for this yet, I would also request that you could add contacts in the same format as you would in an email e.g. address1@example.com; address2@example.com; address3@example.com
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Anonymous
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This feature is extremely helpful, please add it to Teams
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Anonymous
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Please add this feature
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Luis Correia
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Allow me to provide a clear example on which using Distribution lists is business critical, was crucial in Skype and now a big problem while not existing in Teams:
For Service Desk customer support L1 agents, while pinging a Distribution List in Skype they were sure to be reaching directly the required support Team, either Service Service Controllers or the Major Incident Management Team, no matter which people/team members were there. The purpose was precisely to reach a specific team for immediate support so that any of the team members could pick up the chat.
Replicating this functionality in Teams via creating group for that has various disadvantages:
1. Each person who may need to engage that group has to create it manually in his Teams client, while if a Distribution List would be centrally created it would be available for all, avoiding useless individual time spending, which should focus on customer support and not administrative tasks;
2. Creating that group in Teams and keeping it updated requires each person in its individual Teams client to be constantly up to date on the joiners and leavers of all support groups, which can prove to be impossible since that info is not populated and, again, with Distribution Lists this would be centrally managed.
This is indeed more than a "nice to have" feature. As an example for a Major Incident Management Team, when Service Desk 1st line agents need to immediately request support or handover a potential major incident to a Major Incident Management Team they need to be sure to exist such a DL they can ping without having to know which individual members are on that team... -
Anonymous
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This is not just a nice to have! Please replicate this behavior from Skype for Business!
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Nathan Ross
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please please please bring this back