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SMS Texting through Office 365
Dear All,
Is there a possibility of sending SMS messages, lets say in case of an emergency, to all employees or students in an education environment, using Office 365 platform. I believe natively it is not possible but is there any addin built on top of O365 which can provide this kind of service. The idea is to store user's mobile number in an active directory attribute and use it in case of an emergency situation to send alerts.
Alerts using webmail only work for US, Canada and Romania but not for other countries so that is not an option for users in France.
Thanks for any feedback/suggestions.
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One of the options is Power Automate, below similar can refer to:
How to Trigger an Action in Power Automate from a Received Text Message - PowerTextor
Sajid Hanif Now you can send and receive texts via MS Teams, using Falkon SMS
You can easily export contacts and upload a file, or even copy/paste into a mass texting service.
Microsoft has removed ability to send text messages to mobile phones through Outlook from all newer versions after 2010. Microsoft had this feature in Outlook 2007 and 2010 several years back but I don't know why they removed this awesome feature from later version of Outlook. Secondly it is very complicated to configure the alerts. However in Office 365 they have option to send text alerts and reminders to self but this feature of sending SMS messages is available in specific regions and with specific service providers only. This is the biggest drawback we have in the latest versions of Outlook.
There are some service providers who provide email to SMS service but most of them have either add-ins only for the client versions or the charges are very high. Well, the service providers Microsoft has included in Outlook 365 are also not so cheap.
So far you can use Red Oxygen which supports multiple platform with same email address. So far it is going good. Very soon they are going to launch 365 web app as well. Hope that will be able to fulfill these requirements.
I was able to accomplish this in a roundabout way by forwarding Office 365 e-mail to my gmail account. Gmail then has the option to set up forwarding as an SMS text message using a filter, so that only mail sent to the Office 365 address is forwarded.
Could you describe this further? Did you forward all Outlook messages to gmail or just for the sms messages? What were the steps to forward the e-mails to gmail and to create the sms messages in gmail? Thank you!
We at Chatabox are pleased to announce a service running entirely in Microsoft Azure and connected to O365 which offers 2-way SMS for Skype for Business. We now have over 20 customers in trialling the new service in 5 countries and we would be very happy to help you. Please contact info@chatabox.co.uk.
Thank you Sir for your feedback. I will look into it. Thanks once again for taking your time to respond.
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