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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Erin
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Yes, please add this feature
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Charles Hernandez
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This is used in every FO i know to communicate with the members of units and production titles like Title II or Title XVI. Management also uses it to communicate with only management and the entire staff or whatever Dist List they have created for this and email. This is absolutely needed.
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Simon Verney
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This feature missing is a big gap. We moved from jabber to teams and now its hard for me to find who is online from my large team. Is this being planned?
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Phillip Maddox
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This feature is essential in that it supports speed, ease, efficiency and security.
Having each user to have to manually re-develop and maintain common distribution lists is an inefficient use of time and increases the risk of error in communications. The use of the Outlook-based distribution lists increase the capability to easily identify and find available members on a team and provides a means to accurately maintain that information. This avoids leaving someone out of a message, meeting or call, as well as ensuring those no longer on a team do not receive information that they should not have access to. -
Anonymous
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This is a not a feature we wanted, this is a feature which is needed. Request a reply from Microsoft to acknowledge or a give a solution to this thread.
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James
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We need this feature as well. We are constantly adding/removing contractors from our teams, and we like that they show up/disappear in Skype after our HR makes changes to the Email Distribution lists for us. Were going to forget to include team members in chats without distribution list support.
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Danielle
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It would be nice to be able to pull Email enabled distribution group into teams contacts to make it easier for healthcare distribution of meds
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Anonymous
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I would like this feature to be added as well.
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Anonymous
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It would be nice to be able to pull Email enabled distribution group into teams contacts.
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Anonymous
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In Skype for Business we have a feature where we can add a Distribution List to my contact list and see all members status. This is useful to know who from a specific team is working on a shift.
We need this great feature also on Teams.
Is very annoying to have expanded the distribution list on Outlook to see who is available online or not. -
M. de Groot
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+1, I happened on to this looking for information on this feature in Teams and if you haven't got the message yet. Continuing to provide Teams without access to distribution lists is mal practice in a world with technology. Please provide access/routing to them this is all about nesting and identities. Lookup email address -> if a group (more than one member) -> move members into a list -> lookup member email addresses in LDAP/AD -> create matching list of IDs/users. Send information to that list. Please make the easy stuff easy.
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Anonymous
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This was a really useful feature in Skype and is a backwards step by not having this available in Teams.
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Satish
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This was one of the easiest features helpful in catching hold of related team mebers basis the status. Now its a daunting task to either fall back everytime on outlook or search for individual team member in Teams universal search.
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Anonymous
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We need this feature ASAP. We have hundreds of users in multiple groups that are already managed for emailing and security. We need a way to ensure people are part of the teams/channels and this feature would greatly simplify the management. Please put it in.
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Joe
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I agree with the comments already in this user voice thread. MS is missing this requirement. Given that the functionality exists in other MS products, you would think it wouldn't take this long to get it incorporated.
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Anonymous
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I would LOVE to see this feature in teams. We have large department groups and typing in each name individually is not a viable option. PLEASE BRING BACK THIS FEATURE :-)
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Anonymous
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I've been following this thread for a while and can't believe something so important to so many people cannot be addressed. Not asking to re-invent the wheel. This feature existed in Skype.
If MS is not going to address, are there 3rd party plug-ins and/or total different apps we should be looking at instead of Team. This is a total deal breaker once SfB is completely phased out...
Does anyone at MS even look at this thread?
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Paul
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It would be nice to be able to pull in an AD distro group into teams contacts.
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Anonymous
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Do not like, not being able to skype rx for questions about meds for the vets. It was such a good and easy way to speak to a pharmacist, someone was always available.
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MakeTeamsLikeSkype_ASAP
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..the call log is a joke, contacts in the call log are a joke.. come on M$
10 years ago, Lync 2010 was far better in doing what Teams should have had right out of the box.. why do we need user voice for basic functions like this, it has to be there by design.
shame!
its 2020 and you're still making rookie mistakes.honestly Teams looks like it was made by a teenage school boy in their lunch time, LOL, so badly written code...