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MicrosoftOutlook 2007 connectivity to Office 365 ending in Oct 2017
AllenFilush - Hi Allen - I have a loosely related question. Does microsoft have plans to deprecate the Connect to Outlook functionality in SharePoint Online? I vaguely remember something about this. I would like to use this functionality to manage and share contacts with my team members. If I connect a SharePoint Contact list to Outlook, the Outlook rich client provides a smooth entry point for adding contacts and accessing the core contact information. I can then add custom columns to the SharePoint Online contact list which would allow me to add other information e.g. follow-up dates etc,. I am hesitant to invest too much time in something that will be deprecated.
- AllenFilushHey Gregory. It hasn't been deprecated, it is still technically supported. Candidly though, we haven't invested in this functionality in several years. Have you considered simply adding them as contacts in your Global Address List, so that everyone can access them if they'd like?
Hi AllenFilush - I haven't really explored how that (adding them as contacts to GAL) would work in our environment. We have something like 500,000 person identities in our environment. I often get requests related to this from small teams or groups that want to better manage and share contact information. The contacts could be vendors, collaborators at other universities, people within state government that we work with, potential research partners etc.
Thanks for your candid response, they are always the best!
Greg
