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Share Contacts in Office 365 Groups
I'm not seeing an option to share Contacts Lists in Office 365 Groups. Are there any plans to add this? Thanks...
Forgot to ask, would I see the Contacts List in the Outlook Groups mobile app?
I don't think so, but probably within the SharePoint mobile app.
+1 for having a contacts list in groups. All of the other options mentioned are just sort of a 2nd rate work around compared to what contacts for groups could be. I'm amazed that there aren't more people clamoring for this. Microsoft already has a calendar for groups, so why not contacts?
I agree that this is a great idea. In the past we would have created a public folder for the contacts but groups provides better (and easier to manage) security and contacts would make sense there. If a company is not using SharePoint this can be a huge learning curve when all they want to do is set up a shared contact list (I have several companies I work with that only want that). the groups are easier to learn and it is often transparent to the users. We have a calendar for the group so a set of contacts that are relevant to the group membership makes sense.
I couldn't agree more - This is the exact sort of functionality our company is needing right now. Most of our company is non-technical and it needs to be as simple as possible.
- Agreed - having group Contacts along with Inbox and Calendar would be super useful, along with the ability to sync / edit those group contacts on a mobile device.
A basic use case I had recently was a law firm using a group for each case they were handling - each case has a number of contacts (counsel, court clerk, complainant, opposing counsel, etc. They wanted to be able to access those contacts from Outlook on PC & Mac, as well as via iPhone.
Using SharePoint contact list, you cannot sync to Outlook for Mac, and there is limited native sync functionality for mobile devices - e.g. the contacts would not show up in the addressbook on a phone, so callerID doesn't work, etc. I think this is really good idea. It would be extremely helpful to have shared contacts under Office 365 groups like Shared Mailbox.
- Any plans to have an actual shared contacts list like there are in shared mailboxes?
- Correct, you will be able to connect to the Group site using the SharePoint App and access to any list created there
