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Microsoft[New!] Drag and drop conversations into groups
Great, except it doesn't respect the permissions assigned within a groups' 'Delivery Management' section of properties in Exchange Control Panel. Members and even Owners of a group, who do not have rights to post (are not explicitly granted right to post through being added to "Recipients > Groups > Edit Group > Delivery Management > Accept Messages From:") to a group should not be able to drag and drop messages into a group. Period!
I've confirmed that the ability to drag and drop messages from your Inbox to a group a user doesn't have access to post into is intentional behaviour through closed Office 365 Ticket #30126-7369965 . If this continues we will have to look to move away from using Outlook Groups because it will no longer meet organizational requirements with these introduced changes.
Thanks,
Matt
We really need some more features to make this useful. I can not get the "select 100 messages" and drag and drop to work. First off, when you try to select several messages using control+click, it doesn't work, you can only control+click a few at a time. Second, the drag and drop doesn't work for me for multiple messages, only one by one.
Now, that just explains how the current functionality doesn't work. For future functionality, we need the following:
1. Drag and drop in outlook
2. Drag and drop all messages, not just some (I have a public folder I would like to move all the contents from but currently there is no way to do this)
- I would prefer that the e-mail (and following replies) conversation was not moved or copied to the group, but "made visible" to the group.
This would also make it possible to make emails associated with multiple groups.
The current architecture of groups appears to move e-mails to a group inbox, removing it from the persons inbox, adding info on the to/copy fields etc.
Currently Hiver for Gmail is architected in this way. All emails of a company resides in the employees mailboxes. Visibility BEYOND what is seen in the to/cc/bcc fields is set by the hiver database table that holds visibility permissions. Adding a tag to an e-mail makes it visible beyond what the visibility in to/cc/bcc controls.
Groups seem to handle visibility in to/cc/bcc fields, and thus copying emails into multiple "PST" storage files. I can only Imagine this also makes a lot of unneccesary data in the server. Also search appears to be complicated by this architecture.- "Set regarding" in Dynamics CRM somehow is more like this, but only supports one association.
- A problem with having "group" adresses in the to/cc/bcc fields is that people who replies to an e-mail might want to interfer by deleting that group e-mail adress to "control" whom recieves the email.
