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DanielH2180
Jan 21, 2020Copper Contributor
Email with Teams
I am new to trying to figure out the integration of teams into our environment. We rely heavily on distribution lists. I'm personally used to shared mailboxes, but our end users are not. How can I ...
Jan 21, 2020
Ideally you should get away from e-mail and use Teams for what it was meant to be used for assuming people sending to this DL are part of the Team etc. If it's outside people using the DL then I wouldn't move it away from E-mail. It all is going to depend on your audience sending to the DL that will kind of determine the setup you use.
As adam pointed out you can use the O365 group with it, it's like a DL and Shared Mailbox in one, but it's additional training and confusion to users IMO, but again depending on the situation it might be the best solution.
Could you elaborate a bit more on your use case?
As adam pointed out you can use the O365 group with it, it's like a DL and Shared Mailbox in one, but it's additional training and confusion to users IMO, but again depending on the situation it might be the best solution.
Could you elaborate a bit more on your use case?
DrElijah
Feb 25, 2021Copper Contributor
Thank you for your explanation of emailing from MS Teams to a team member. Email is still valid and official method of communication, specifically in higher education. It is ironic that Microsoft Office 365 is sold to universities as a platform but it fails to integrate email inside Microsoft Teams. Every University requires students to monitor their email, specifically online students. This covid-19 kiros time mandates eLearning, but not Microsoft Teams shoots itself in a foot by drastically disintegrating from MS Outlook. Any University will be very slow to move their "Check your email daily" policy! Microsoft doesn't think that way but professors and program administrators do, and them fon't like MS Teams brcause of this disintegration with Outlook. For example, I am a program coordinator. I have hunted 134 students and about 200+ Alumni as my different teams members inside Microsoft Teams. Following my University policy, I want to email them, but I want to do it out of Microsoft Teams. Some of my Alumni are in later life, some of them and most of my students are in middle of their life and they are not tech-savvy. But all of them can monitor their email with ease. I don't want to create a group in Microsoft Outlook. I already typed in every of 130 emails by hand! Because MS Teams is still underdeveloped and does not respond to challanges of higher education on covid19 environment. Microsoft still proves its absurd logic, which is evidenced by the drastic discontinuation of Outlook in MS Teams [MS has no logic other than their own].