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Did I miss the announcement of the end of support for SMS messaging from Exchange Online?
Some of our users have been using SMS alerts from exchange online as described here. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/text-messaging-notifications-in-outlook-web-app-4154bd15-4f2b-4854-8297-1ae55649f158
But it looks like the options to modify those alerts have been removed (or put somewhere very hard to find). The alerts appear to still function if you have set them up in the past - so something is still out there.
Is this another case of the ribbon police taking away "unneeded" options - or is the service being discontinued?
Hi Adrian Hyde
Searched - nothing to say that the functionality has been deprecated.
Follow the link Victor provided (https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/options/textmessaging) and it will take you to the Text Messaging section under General mailbox options
Select Set Up Text Messaging and it will give you the options
AFAIK on 365 this is for Web App Only, so wouldn't likely appear in the ribbon.
Hope that answers your question.
Best, Chris
Wow, no announcements, no alternatives, no support. Pathetic.
Adrian Hyde - If there was an announcement, I think we all missed it. I wanted to change my SMS notifications (Office 365) and found there was no edit. I deleted my SMS notifications settings. I thought 'well, it's Microsoft Office, maybe you have to delete and recreate instead of edit.' Instead I found the feature is deprecated. Frustrating.
Is there any news about why this is was deprecated and any plans to replace it?
I used it all of the time and it was exceptionally useful. I just changed phone carriers and it stopped working, so I accidentally deleted it.
Getting a text message every time a change occurred to a meeting on your calendar was exceptionally useful and there is no way to replicate that as far as I know. I also used to get get messages when a VIP emailed me, but that I can replicate in an Outlook forwarding rule.
TdewarI am going to guess that MSFT didn't want to deal with the hassle of managing text messages with multiple carriers. IF you recall when it was working that they only had a small number of carriers available to choose from.
I am also guessing this led to lots of complaints about "Why is my carrier not available".
You could take two paths - work on adding more carriers, or just turn it off for everyone.
P.S. I agree - it was very useful.
Hi Adrian Hyde
Searched - nothing to say that the functionality has been deprecated.
Follow the link Victor provided (https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/options/textmessaging) and it will take you to the Text Messaging section under General mailbox options
Select Set Up Text Messaging and it will give you the options
AFAIK on 365 this is for Web App Only, so wouldn't likely appear in the ribbon.
Hope that answers your question.
Best, Chris
Thanks ChrisHoardMVP . I did mix my terminology...what I meant to say was that when you have selected the "New Outlook", the option to get to these settings cannot be found.
But thank you - I had forgotten to switch back to the "old outlook" when looking for these settings.
Does this mean it is being phased out? Or just an oversight?
- Victor_Ungureanu
Microsoft
The new version of OWA is not yet finished, so a lot of features are not yet available.
- Victor_Ungureanu
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