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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115 comments
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GLENDA AMARAL
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Yup agree with the majority here about having a contact group feature that can be used with MS Outlook. Also would be awesome to create this groups feature available by calendar to make meeting invites but for chat only option available not just video and phone call.
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Marc
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The real benefit of a contact group would be if could start a chat by just clicking on the group.
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Anonymous
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How am I supposed to make a simple telphone call in Teams when my contact info is stuck in outlook?
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Anonymous
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Shouldn't bulk adding or link/import from outlook address book be a basic function from the very begining?? I am surprise MS completely missed this. Adding 100+ contact INDIVIDUALLY... that's not helpful at all.
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Maisie Kocher
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It would also be nice to be able to create a Team from the contact group.
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Anonymous
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This would be a great feature for our helpdesk group
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Shannon
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Would love it if Teams had a contact list that I could use to easily select contacts for different groups, rather than enter details manually, one by one.
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Anonymous
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Teams is supposed to give tools to better collaborate. I am shocked to see Microsoft team missing a basic feature of chat collaboration as group. Defeats the purpose and core principles of team communication. It's a shame that Teams has been introduced into market, without a basic feature like this. this conversation started in 2018 and still to date we do not have that feature.
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Anonymous
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From a contact group, I should be able to chat. Or from a chat i should be able to select a contact group. Our Skype users see this as a step backward with going to Teams.
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adam
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This is really stupid not to have Outlook contacts viewable or importable into Teams.
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Jeff Nelson
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What is the point of a contact group if you can't start a chat or meeting by clicking on the group?
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kcmiller
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I thought for sure this was a feature and I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Old Skype user and I used that all the time! Please implement!
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Anonymous
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Skype had this feature, our users who recently migrated from Skype to Teams are asking for this!! Thanks
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Ant Man
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Ditto. The data is there, should be able to cross the platforms
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Jeff Gardella
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Syncing contacts accros O365 makes perfect sense. Please add feature soon.
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Clarence
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We need the Group email function in MS Teams. Logical! MS is known for integrating it's software products. Why not integrate this function of being able to send Group emails to Channel members or a group list? Logical.
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Anonymous
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It is hard to believe that Teams does not allow contacts to be imported in a bulk but need to be manually added one-by-one instead! Must be fixed - it restricts the usability of Teams!
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Thomas Oppel
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The inability to have Outlook contacts automatically added to Teams, or at least a method to import them all at once, makes Teams useless. Microsoft, fix this immediately!
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LT
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You shouldn't even have to import contacts into teams. Isn't the point of MS office interoperability / integration of apps???
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LT
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The lack of communication with outlook's contacts makes teams unusable. Also, once you switch to teams, outlook will not let me return to Skype