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Add Outlook as an App in Teams?
Hi folks, I am quite new here but have not found yet what I seek. I want my team to use Teams as their main hub for communication and one of the things I would like is to add an app in the left b...
- Hi NerdyBen
See here
https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/adding-outlook-email-and-calendar-app-to-microsoft-teams-a-proof-of-concept/
This was a POC done recently. Note this isnโt officially supported but you can follow and reproduce the steps.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
This was a feature they announced at Ignite this year. You could either do the POC as suggested, or you can wait till they roll it out. NerdyBen
- I'm writing on Feb. 23, 2021, more than a year later and we still do NOT have a way to send an email to all MS Teams' team members. people are hard to change. Email is "official" when at Universities, Teams is NOT. I'd appreciate an integration to be rolled out: I want to email all my Teams' members. Please, MicroSoft, Make it happen! Thank you!
- Well, actually you can email all your team's members. Depending on settings at tenant level (if I am right), every team has a shared mailbox available, like ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ-๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ-๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ@๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ-๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐-๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ.๐ผ๐ป๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ณ๐.๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ
Hope this helps you.
- Unfortunately, this wasnโt a feature announced at Ignite. The integration they announced was pulling an email into a Teams channel or pushing a Teams conversation into an email.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-Microsoft-Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025
It wasnโt the integration of the outlook or outlook on the web experience into Teams, making it an app, pinning it to the app bar etc. The only full app experience which was announced was Yammer.
It remains to be seen if the full Outlook experience will follow the POC. Lots of people want to see that but Microsoft havenโt committed to that.
As you can see here that is still under review
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16925707-access-to-email-from-left-tab-panel
Best, ChrisChrisHoardMVP I stand corrected. I thought I had seen the Outlook icon on the left-hand rail in one of the sessions.
- Haha no doubt they had probably just done that POC themselves!
Best, Chris
