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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178 comments
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Michèle Barmoy
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This past spring I used the chat feature to have virtual office hours with my students. I created contact groups for each class. It was easy to start a chat twice a week by just typing in the name of the group. I was disappointed when it didn't work this fall. I'm not going to type in 24 names twice a week for a chat. I'm currently searching for an alternative among the programs and site available to my students. I haven't found anything as convenient yet. Please bring back this feature.
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Adam Sasin
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I've prepared a visualisation of "how it could looks like".
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Chela
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Yes, please add this feature!
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Nader Sheikhi
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Yes we need this as well. This was a functionality available in Skype for Business. We had our front desk staff Instant Message a group without belonging to that group. Someone would respond from the group and the individual initiating the Instant Message would be involved in that Chat instance.
This is very crucial to alert and notify departments. For example a CEO wants to message all Directors without belonging to the Directors Teams Group.
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Jon Martin
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We need this!
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Anonymous
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This is an absolute must, what's the point of contact groups if you cannot contact all members at the same time?
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GLY
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This is long overdue for microsoft teams to have the ability (not an option or feature) to add/import bulk contacts!
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Amber Harover
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Our organization heavily uses the ability in Skype for Business to message a contact group which we manage in Active Directory. This is used constantly all day throughout all of our departments for various reasons. We absolutely cannot function without this capability. It isn't realistic for our users to manually create a group of people every time they need to contact another department, or to have to manually update groups that they have already made when people are hired, transfer departments, etc. We already have department-based groups in Active Directory that are managed by IT when employees enter and exit the company or transfer departments. There is no reason this shouldn't be an option to message in "Chat".
As a healthcare organization a "Team" for this isn't realistic. Team messages don't notify the same way as Chats and many of the ways our departments use messaging groups in Skype for Business now are extremely time-sensitive (relating to patient care). It also isn't realistic to expect users to @mention every other user in a "Team" that they need to see a critical group message.
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Trev
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Seems alot of people have misunderstood the intention of this request with all the comments about importing (which would also be good to have BTW).
Our org has a retention policy of 3 days so the inability to use a contact group to initiate a group chat leads to tedious work by the end user in having to add everyone indvidually each time a group chat is created.
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Spectra
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Please allow the facility to import contacts from a csv list and also to import from Outlook in MS Teams. I have looked all over but cannot get my contact lists into MS Teams except for adding one by 1.
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Anonymous
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Yes I agree! We can create the contact group, it only makes sense to be able to use it...
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Thomas D. Millett
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I agree. I have created hundreds of outlook contacts over 20 years and now struggle to use teams to comminicate with them. I just added MS voice/telephone and assumed this would not be a probelm
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Anonymous
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Lets go microsoft... Its time to work on contact import in teams.
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Eli
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This should be a top priority. There's a strong business case for this feature in each of the thousands of companies who use your product. Bringing this feature to production will make who ever is the product owner a hero. If you're a Microsoft developer and you're reading this comment, take up this cause! It could easily be translated to productivity dollars!
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Jean-Marc Timmermans
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It would be useful to develop a solution to import contacts into a Teams. Now members need to be added one by one and there is no import function. Adding multiple people to a teams via an import file (excel, csv or the like) would be really useful. Adding one by one is not feasible for larger groups....
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Aaron
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Should be able to import/export contacts into Teams (for calls and chat) as well as reference them from a directory / shared contact list. This is an obvious missing feature. No one is happy migrating from SfB to Teams as long as this is missing.
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steve kelly
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It would also be very efficient to be able to one-click to send an email to all team members and guests.
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Jon
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Typical Microsoft give us a replacement for skype that cannot do the basic functions that skype can. A bit like windows search every update has been a step further away from the perfect search in XP.
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Brenda
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I agree as well. I have a group of colleagues that I communicate with throughout the day. It is a major pain to have to create a group chat and add their names individually. I know that you can click on a previous conversation but since you can't name those conversations I have no way of knowing which conversation to click on without opening up all of them to see which was the group chat.
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Elliot Susseles
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Teams is useless if you cannot directly import contacts from Outlook!
