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Ethan Li
Microsoft
Microsoft[New!] Drag and drop conversations into groups
Good news! We're currently rolling out drag and drop for messages and conversations into groups in Outlook on the web first for First Release customers, then Standard release customers.
It's much easier to explain with a GIF:
Support for Outlook 2016 for Windows is coming soon--stay tuned.
You can find the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/24e809db-70e1-45b7-8d54-efac7951dc95
HE-MJ, I'm not sure drag and drop from Public Folders is supported. Have you tried drag and drop with an ordinary email from your inbox?
Also, I'm not sure about this, but in the Release Notes for update #13, it states that Drag an email to a group you own. Ref. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-insider#outlook-11.
Could you try drag and drop to a Group that you are defined as an owner (and not only Member)?
I tried draging and dropping from my inbox to a group of which I am owner.
It's not possible.
Anyone think this will actually be released in November?
I hope so.... been waiting for aaaaaages.
It says November, but will be for Monthly Channel only I guess..
Ha! November which year?
- Looks like it is delayed to Q2 2020 !!! Insanity
Hi Ethan Li, any word on when this feature will finally be complete, and when we can start using it inside of Outlook on the desktop? We also desperately need to be able to move more than 1 conversation at a time.
Also awaiting this to come to Outlook Desktop. Please advise when this feature will be added?
Hi Everyone - we all agree that it sucks that we have to wait so long for this what should be a "basic" feature.
We just want basic drag and drop for now, and if they are developing more wondrous wizardry around this feature then it could wait (Agile, Microsoft.... Agile!)
Anyway... that said, if we have to wait until Q4 2019, can people advise what processes they have put in place to move emails in a user mailbox to an O365 mailbox? Do you encourage drag and drop of 1 email via web client? CC in the Group mailbox? Use 3rd party apps to save the the emails into SharePoint libraries (.....*gulp*)
If anyone has any training or "how to" guides or experience they would like to share, this collateral would be most appreciated.
Cheers!
- Hi Joe. The guide I've shared with my team is this one https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Drag-messages-from-your-personal-mailbox-to-the-group-mailbox-24e809db-70e1-45b7-8d54-efac7951dc95
I agree, we can't wait until the end of the year to have this resolved. Folders/subfolders, flags, and labels are a must as well.
Hi guys,
I just checked for an update. So the original roadmap item has been canceled and moved to another one with ETA Q4 2019. That means we have to wait another year :) I would like to suggest to support the effort to promote folders creation option as well, because without folders it is useless anyhow. As of now I believe it is top 3rd rated feature in UserVoice.
See more here here.
Cheers Tomas
- >promote folders creation option as well,
Do you mean so you can categorise Office 365 groups together? If so then yes, big thumbs up. My main client now has 400+ Office 365 groups and the list is unmanageable. Why so many? Because each project gets it's own group and they work on a lot of projects which sometimes last just six months. - Wow, that is far too long. This feature is critical for our teams adoption for Office 365.
- Same here - it is simply not acceptable to tell users to "Use the web interface". I really do support Microsoft (have for 30+ years) but sometimes I see "New features" appearing in Office and my response is "Stop adding features very few need/want and fix the obvious faults & omissions in the existing code" :-( This is the single top wanted feature by my main client.
Hi,
Is this feature still planned to be launched on Outlok 2016 Win?
We need this functionality now. It should have been released when the groups were released.
Hi Ethan Li or anyone else at Microsoft - how come the release date for this has been blown out to Q2 in 2020...??!! That is so long away. Is this wrong? That's what it says here on 17th September 2018, but could it just be a bit typo? We really could use this functionality, it's a shame it's taking so long...
Joe McGiven Corban I'm with you on this point, we really need drag & drop in Groups for Outlook Desktop as soon as possible !
Ethan Li. without this feature, we will need to go with a 3rd party app, which will cost us a lot of money just for this feature ... Please keep us posted about all this !
- Goodness, my client can't SHOUT loud enough for this feature in Outlook. They work 99% in the desktop client and rarely use OWA. I've got monthly (targeted) on my test VM and it's not in there either. Insider channel maybe? Come on Microsoft, we're screaming for this.
Is there a way to do this programmatically? Using Microsoft Graph, I don't seems to be able to copy mail to a Office 365 Groups.
