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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...
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.
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
