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Creating a new Chat with everyone in Teams contact group
Hi : Is there a way to create a new group chat by selecting a contact group in teams (not AD). To clarify, this would be the area in the chat section, you click on Contacts. From that area, I w...
Half of 2023 has been gone already and I'm baffled that this simple function was not yet implemented. That and the ability to create other categories in the "Chat" menu, besides the default "Fixed" area.
Jonatas4ndrade Hi this has been available for a little while now but your admin may have disabled the option to chat with groups:
"Users can start a chat with distribution groups (distribution lists), mail-enabled security groups, and Microsoft 365 groups. Once the Chat with groups setting is enabled, users can search, select the group, and start chatting with the members of the group."
- Chat with distribution lists (DLs) - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn
If you're looking to categorise your chats, the structure in Teams would be to use teams and channels to segment and organise your conversations.
- Hey there Ben, thanks for taking your time.
We do use the Teams/Channels, but our organization is way too big (around 100k employees). There are a plethora of fixed channels already, any more would produce extra clutter.
We can start chats with DLs, but the chat section doesn't allow categorization as we said. Sometimes we need to make a meeting with two or four people and relevant information is registered in the chat. As we can't categorize/group, finding it becomes a burden after a while, specially when the contact name is forgotten, or if there are many chats with a similar group of people.- Also, we (end users) cannot create custom DLs. We could use TAGs, but that requires making a Team with everybody, which is also annoying and generates further clutter.
