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Share Contacts in Office 365 Groups
+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?
