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technonath
Nov 10, 2022Iron Contributor
The sudden removal of public folder access in outlook on the web
Last week access to public folders was removed from outlook on the web with no announcement, does anyone know why? and why was the message centre not used to communicate this change ? Now you ge...
Paypercorn
Mar 03, 2023Copper Contributor
Ran into the same issue, having a shared public folder for contacts that we wanted to be org wide.
Recommendations seem to be moving contact lists to SharePoint, but documentation is very vague on how to properly do that.
Recommendations seem to be moving contact lists to SharePoint, but documentation is very vague on how to properly do that.
technonath
Mar 03, 2023Iron Contributor
Paypercorn I don't think I am breaking any trade secrets here, but I did have some contact with the outlook team and I believe they are actively trying to look at a way to re-instate it.
- PaypercornMar 08, 2023Copper ContributorAnother Weird thing I noticed with Contacts public folders,
For them to appear in the Outlook Desktop App Contact Tab under "other contacts", it seems to be necessary to add the public folder to favorites on OWA first, otherwise it just appears in the address book and folder tab view but not the Contacts tab.
(OWA, right click on folders, add public folder to favorites)