Forum Discussion
Does Microsoft Teams use Global Address List (organization) contacts?
You can search for people in your organisation but there is no address book were you can list all persons in your organisation. You search in the search bar.
You can also search for contacts in your own contact list from outlook. Calls > Contacts > Find a contact
Why there is no address book in Teams like in Outlook? I guess that it has not been requested enough for Microsoft to create it. But there is a uservoice requesting this, vote for it and spread it and Microsoft might consider to implement it.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/36949507-team-address-books-and-company-wide-address-book
Was there any update on this since Jan 2021?
Its almost 2022 and this is still an issue as far as I can tell, and was hoping that anyone had any other work arounds, or third party apps filling this gap?
Thanks!
Contacts is still a mess. For example. In Teams Desktop I see all my contacts from Outlook, but when I get a new caller and choose "Add contact" from the context menu in Teams it is saved... just don't know where, I never see it in my contacts in Outlook.
Same for Teams on mobile.... does it have all contacts, or just the contacts in my local phone list (synchronized from Outlook Mobile)?
We're in the same boat.
Something simple that syncs GAL <-> Teams <-> Mobile (at least if they're corporate devices).
Is there a powershell script we can run silently for everyone once a week that would "add contact" for every GAL into Teams (and vice-versa)?
- Adding GAL contacts to a users contact list is not difficult. New contacts can be created with powershell. The hard part is when a contact already exists in the users contact list and we need to decide which info we keep and which info we update from the GAL.
