Create/start a chat for a Contact Group
It would be great if we can create/start a new chat based off a Contact Group. Rather than adding each person individually to a chat, the fact that they are part of a group would be so convenient to just right-click the Contact Group name, say 'Start Chat' and it would initiate a new chat will all members in the group.
Mark Sandico
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Daryl
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Seems to be a helpful feature.
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Anonymous
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I would be nice to right click on a group and send a message as we did with Skype. Or select a group and convert to a Team.
Isn't Teams supposed to be the replacement for Skype for Business which end of life is June 2021? -
Nathalie Thomas
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Can I import a contact group from Outlook to Teams?
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Anonymous
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Odd that there is no way to link contacts in Outlook / Exchange to chat in Teams.
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Michael
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This is something I am also having an issue with. in SfB it was extremely easy to mange groups and instantly start a group chat with them and have a meeting. I should be able to right click a group and hit start chat or send message. it seems like a design flaw taking out a feature like that.
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Paul
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So many more people would be using teams and enjoying the experience if their contacts were synced. Once they are in the application then they could be assigned to a specific team. This manual process of adding contacts is really a limiting paradigm for the application and its utilization. For instance I have contacts grouped in skype, those groups could be translated to teams if the sync/import were available.
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Martin Douglas
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The way to work with group chats in Teams is fundamentally different by design. One needs to adapt their mindset when coming from a Skype for Business. In Microsoft Teams, instead go ahead and create a Team for such groups and through membership you will not only get plain vanilla chat, but all of the other powerful team features that Microsoft Teams was designed for. It is what distinguishes it from a plain Skype for Business experience.
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Anonymous
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HOW IS THIS NOT A FEATURE ALREADY??????
What the heck is the contact list even for? I have these people tagged as well -- so two ways Teams could make this easy and yet... -
Saurav
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This has been a super useful feature in Skype. Would be great to see it in Teams soon.
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Robert Gifford
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There should be a way to import Outlook contacts into Teams.
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Anonymous
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I came to ask this same question.
4 pages of basically the same comment begun 20 months ago and the answer is....
<<<< SILENCE >>>>
Responsive rating for Teams = ZERO! -
Sedleigh
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I have a funny feeling that I've figured out why MS Teams does not pull through Contacts from Outlook, Outlook On The Web or Skype For Business. It may not have been designed to do this at all. It appears that Teams (Chat) "Contacts" only refers to addresses that have previously been added to a Team as "Guest Users". To add insult to injury, the "Group" facility in Teams' "Chat - Contacts", so far appears to have NO "group related" functionality, other than to allow Users/Guests to be placed in lists for which the list-names can be customised. Any thoughts??? (Sedleigh | eBusiness Connect | office@ebusinessconnect.co.uk)
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Eric Kimminau
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As an Enterprise Skype for Business user for a Global Fortune 100 company telling us we are moving towards Office 365 & Teams, it is ludicrous there is no way to export from skype/import to teams or transfer directly from Skype into teams all of my contacts groups and contacts in skype.
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Brad Bendler
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It is both ironic and frustrating that Skype for Business (Teams' predecessor) does have the one-click, group chat functionality.
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Sherman Cawley
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Microsoft Teams: Can you please answer this string of requests? It appears to be very obvious and fundamental to be able to import contacts. How about just a quick workaround?
I believe this issue deserves a response, rather than silence. Is anyone listening? Please let us know what your team is doing to address this function. We would like to know.
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Anonymous
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Please make this a priority to make Teams more useful and easier to use. These contacts are in the Microsoft eco system and should be seamless across the Microsoft Apps.
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Anonymous
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What is the purpose of being able to create a chat contact group, but then not being able to start a new chat or anything else with it ?
It is a real pain having to add names/contacts one at the time, rather than pasting in/importing a list in one go. -
Disappointed
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Get with the program Microsoft! Why can I create a group in my Contacts but then not be able to start a new chat with it?
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Rod Bryant
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I don't know how they could call the app "Teams" and fail to incorporate the most obvious feature in the world!!
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Anonymous
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Please develop a way to bulk import contacts from Outlook or other source to Microsoft Teams!