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Contacts in Teams - Source
Hello. Where exactly does Teams pull its 'Contacts' list from? From what I gather at the moment, it seems to be the default 'Contacts' list present in Outlook. Is there not a way to import or add more contact groups in this view?
BC-Cncf Contacts in Teams are a mixture of Outlook contacts and contacts that are in the Chat tab of Teams. To add a new contact in the calling view, just click the "Add Contact" button at the top right.
- BC-CncfCopper Contributor
JeremyMiller Thanks. We have certain contact folders within Outlook to which we update information. These are also synced to the users' phone contacts. Is there a way to have the same contact groups in Teams?
- MischaSzCopper Contributor
Same question here - we have subfolders in Outlook contacts and they are not visible in the Calls > Contacts list in Microsoft Teams. Any way we can configure where Teams pulls those contacts?
- CBIT1090Copper ContributorWe have the same request. We have a clients contact list in public folders. We need to be able to access these clients via Teams to schedule meetings and later use for telephony purpose if/when we migrate phone service to Teams.
- BrianG1965Copper Contributor
CBIT1090 Did you find a solution to this as we are facing the same problem. If I find anything I will circle back to disclose.
Thanks!
- ryanhealyBrass Contributor
I'm working to solve the problems with Teams contacts with my app.
https://www.contactsmanager.com/
I'd love your feedback.
Public folders and shared contacts are somethings I'm looking into, but personal contacts folders and the org contacts are surfaced, as well as a few other things.