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Creating a new Chat with everyone in Teams contact group
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.
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.
Jonatas4ndrade That does sound like a challenge and I can see how what you're asking for can be valuable.
I've seen some people use naming conventions to try and make it easier to find chats but that only works if you have created it - creating something from scratch with a tagged/categorised group wouldn't be easy with that many staff.
It might be a good one to put on the feedback portal if there isn't already a similar recommendation there > Microsoft Teams · Community