Admin Controlled contact group available to all Teams users
Administrator 's ability to create a domain wide or tenant wide groups of contacts for example per department that is available to all Teams users like a company directory. Same as in other corporate messaging wherein any changes in the contact will be synced to all clients.
Allen H
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Admin controlled contact groups for Teams are available via the O365 Global Address List (GAL). Please see documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/exchange/address-books/address-lists/create-global-address-list.
78 comments
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Anonymous
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Is there any update on the ability to share a contact list within my Team?
We have a just bought a new phone system which incorporates Microsoft Teams for each of our colleges and would like all 'team' contacts visible for everyone. Thanks
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Jason
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I have 200+ site phone numbers that are not associated to an e-mail enabled user so having the capability to create and share a contact list within TEAMS would be a huge win instead of having to work on spreadsheets.
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Tony
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Please add this as soon as possible. It seems like a no-brainer. Most of our staff won't have the time, or desire, to create their own list and keep it updated. This seems like yet another what the heck is Microsoft thinking item.
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Anonymous
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Yes please
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Craig Shannon
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Please add the functionality asap
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Tim
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TEAMS is currently looking at a default contact list in Outlook as it populates the Calls->Contacts option when you have a phone system connected. Being able to specify the contact list to show seems like a small change. It looks like Microsoft has hard-coded the reference to the user's personal contact list in that Calls->Contacts option so would it really be that difficult to expose a setting to allow the user to pick the contact list they want to use in place of the hard-code? It is already possible to share an Outlook contact list corporately, so by being able to pick a shared contact list, the problem would be solved ... at least for us.
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Anonymous
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Yes, let us use email enabled universal security groups for this instead of dynamic groups. We used these in Skype all the time. Also allow our users to also create local contact groups for their own uses.
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Anonymous
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This is needed. Any updates from Microsoft ??? is this being worked on? when will it be rolled out to all ?
I can hear my Boss saying "can you set a company contact group in Teams for everyone"
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Anonymous
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Yes, this is needed and would be nice if we could use regular universal mail enabled secuirty groups instead of the dynamic groups in Azure AD
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Jan Reichelt
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Wird dringend benötigt. Eine unternehmensweit einheitliche Kontaktliste in Teams ist essentiell wichtig.
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Jordan R.
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We need this now please.
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Marco
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Hi, need this feature too. Please at least let us to save/load chat contact groups.
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Jason Crocker
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Still need the ability to deploy contact groups in Teams. The first question all my users ask me is will everyone show up in Teams. And I have to tell them they have to add them manually. As an admin I need to be able to do this for my users. This is keeping them from adopting Teams.
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Victor Sangha
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We really, really need this!
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Leo123
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There are 3 issues that I face with Teams as an administrator and I can only wait for Microsoft to pickup the baton then.
- Teams does not have the ability to access a company address book or groups of people
- There is no admin control over contacts
- We cannot pre-populate contacts and there is no command line option to script anything for it -
Anonymous
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The suggestion isn't helpful unless we're able to also access Address Books in the Teams app, which we currently can't, and there aren't any updates on that uservoice request:
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Richard Osborne
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Our migration onto Teams with Team Voice was going so well until we hit this roadblock. Our current VOIP provider enables us to have a business address book our whole company can access but Teams Voice does not.
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David Jennings
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Can't believe this cannot be achieved. Easy to implement on Lync
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Anonymous
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GAL wouldn't work for me either. "but a user can only see and use one GAL". I manage a large number of complex scientific machines and have compiled a list of contacts in my personal Outlook client. I need to make this list of contacts a shared resource with others supporting the machines.
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Armin
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I feel a GAL is not the solution we look for.
I want to share a list of contacts of any kind (clients, distributors, partners, ...) with my colleagues so we don't have to store all the same contacts in every mailbox.