Contacts in Teams - Source

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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?

jeremymiller · Answer

BC-Cncf&nbsp;Contacts in Teams are a mixture of Outlook contacts and contacts that are in the Chat tab of Teams.&nbsp; To add a new contact in the calling view, just click the "Add Contact" button at the top right.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/view-or-add-contacts-in-teams-4828b70a-0194-4272-9895-cfa9468273cf
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bc-cncf · Answer

JeremyMiller&nbsp;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?

mischasz · Answer

Same question here - we have subfolders in Outlook contacts and they are not visible in the Calls &gt; Contacts list in Microsoft Teams. Any way we can configure where Teams pulls those contacts?

the_dave · Answer

MischaSzwe have the same issue. I would be already happy with an regkey to add specific Folderpaths for the Teams Client to look for contacts.&nbsp;

cbit1090 · Answer

We 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.

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Contacts in Teams - Source