Team address books (and company-wide address book)
The lifeblood of Microsoft teams is the people that that make up those teams and generate the content within teams. As of now, there is now basic way of listing who those people are within teams.
It would be really great if each team had it's own "people" tab where it would be an address book of all the people who make up that team. Without it, how does a general user even know with whom they are speaking?
Furthermore, it would be good to have the option for a company-wide "people" tab in the left menu, which would function as a general address book.
These features are out-of-the-box options for most other company communication systems and I don't understand why it's not really an option.
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Anonymous
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Agreed, still in the learning curve. I was completely surprised to find this was not an option!
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Sarah W
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We currently use Skype for Business and are being forced into Teams because Skype for Business is EOL. If you are going to force us into a new product, it should have feature parity before the old one is EOL.
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Anonymous
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Outlook remembers the email address (both inside and outside of the organization) once you have sent an email to it.Why can't Teams?
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Taison Eady
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We are in the middle of implementing teams as an option to our users for voip calls in our organisation. TBH I didn't even look at this as I assumed it would just pickup our existing contact list from AD... Seems like a backwards step now, I guess we will be cancelling our voice licenses and going back to broad soft...
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Dirk Zinken
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A company-wide address book would be more than useful!
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Leon
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This is potentially a make or break feature for anyone considering Teams so must be added urgently.
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Anonymous
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This is ridiculous. Why is this still not enabled after all this time? Having Contacts/GAL available should be a basic part of the system.
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Chris Cadge
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We are selling Teams Business Voice - and this is the most important feature that everyone needs. How hard can it be to implement?
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Emma
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At the very least users should be able to see other users in the org as contacts by default without being in a team with them.
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Alfred Nonymous
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Team Address books synced across all MS Platforms including Teams would help attribute to seamless communication throughout an organization with little to no concern when working from any app in the MS Suite. Would love to see such a feature one day.
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Anonymous
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Would like to see Global Address List integrated into teams.
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Anonymous
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Please add GAL in Teams!
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Stanislav Timofeev
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All users likes address book. It was in Outlook, so just add it on Teams !
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Jose
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Very interested in see our GAL on Teams. Thanks!
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Teija
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Before we migrate our staff from Skype for Business to Teams, it's important to have the same organization contacts as are in our Global Address be available in Teams. Please fix this, Microsoft!
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Anonymous
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To be a serious telephony solution a company-wide address book is a must. This contact list already exists as the global address list in Outlook, so I wouldn't think it would be too hard to incorporate in to Teams.
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Bob Fenske
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A new user in a company with no contacts whatsoever has to add everyone in their company individually. This is just stupid!
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Anonymous
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I can't believe this function doesn't exist out-of-the-box when so many other solutions (eg. 3CX) have it. Please make it available as soon as possible
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Anonymous
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As an admin I just want to create a global contact list for all the employees within the company as a base list for them - import from excel/csv file. They should be able to add individual contacts themself but everybody should have this "base list". This contact list should be at a central location and should be automatically added to new users. This way nobody has to add every contact manually one by one. (Admin microsoft center, Teams Center, somewhere over there - tab organization wide contacts voila)
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Anonymous
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global address book is essential to making Teams a whole solution for working across client teams where there might be shared/common contacts across client teams.