It been almost 2 years since this feature had been published, and reading the comments it shock me that almost from day one people had been asking for the feature for the templates to be Published as Shared with other Admins and MS have not implemented such important feature yet. This one is important and essential MS, you should published this template module if you where not going to allow that it can be shared to be used and manage in collaboration with other tenant admins. Another flaw that I found is that after I create a template, I can't alter to fix or correct. I have to DELETE and CREATE a NEW one from scratch if I made a mistake creating it the first time, or I have to modify something in the template that became irrelevant and need to be alter. I don't like being wasting my time recreating a template from scratch. The third thing I need that I find missing is that I need to set up the Group(s) of the user. Right now I have 3 distribution list groups: Employees, Temp Employees and Contractors. I currently define each user template I create per position per employment type. If I would be able to define in the template the groups I need to assign the user from the template, it would be sweet since I don't need after creating the account remembering to add the group. Other peoples in this forum are asking this.
So in summary, the 3 major feature I would like to see in the future of User Templates are:
- The ability to Shared User Templates so other Admins can use it and don't have to recreate it again on their accounts.
- The ability to modify an existing User Template, so admins don't have to delete to re-create.
- Be able to add Groups (Distribution, Security and Mail-enable Security) to be defined in the user template.