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Contact list no longer available in new Teams version
This morning I have finally been strongarmed over to the new one with no option of going back, so in one massive backward clusterfrak (forced on me by people who seem to have no concept of real-world workflow) I can no longer see at a glance the online / offline status of my colleagues in the various departments (and beyond) who I interact with on a regular basis.
Formally, just in case anyone from Microsoft is reading this to gloat at the success of their latest attempts to completely eff things up, the "View Contacts" option is not a viable alternative as it's just an address book with no basic online functionality that a sane person would expect to see from a product that things it is the centre of the work environment.
Absolutely ludicrous... if completely in character.
- While they decide to implement a basic function for many you can still click on the three dots in teams next to your photo and there is a button to go back to the old teams.
Until they return the contacts button to the new teams I refuse to use the new one.adrianromerolopez They're not likely to return the Contacts button. But, good news! Using the People app (which was their stated solution already), they have just updated it to restore the online presence indicator in those contact lists. Hope that helps!
- So they have - just tried it and it's there. However, the mechanism to actually recreate all the groupings and things I have been using in old Teams seems either hidden, really crap or - knowing Micro$haft - both. I'm damned if I can figure out how I go about creating a new grouping in that.
Once again, M$ prove their UI designers do not function in the real world.
Back to old Teams while I can.
- RESULT! I was looking all round for that option and couldn't find it, so I figured I had finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the Blinkered Coder.
You, sir, are a lifesaver... probably literally as this level of idiocy is guaranteed to result in an elevation of blood pressure every time I go to do something that I can no longer do because "updates".
