Forum Discussion
AlistairKeay1
Jul 28, 2022Brass Contributor
Exchange Contacts and Teams
Question
Should contacts added via
Be visible \ searchable in teams?
Notes
In my test and production tenant the answer is no.
eg Adding a contact via the admin center such as "john Smith" contact with a valid e-mail address. I can see the contact in outlook\GAL
In teams searching for "john", "john smith", "john ", "smith", "smith " etc does not find any results
(The production tenant has many contacts none of which are visible in teams)
However raising an MS case the engineer said it did work for him in his testing
Conclusion
Any advice welcome
Note this question does not relate to personal contacts stored in outlook\teams but to contacts in the GAL
1. Should contacts from the GAL be visible in teams
2. If yes how do I make them visible in my tenant (There are only so many ways to add a contact via the admin center)
- I have some final feedback
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/troubleshoot/exchange-integration/external-contacts-not-in-search
In summary
Do not expect to see results for EXO contacts in teams.
Another area I also explored was "mail enabled users". While they do appear in a search via a friendly name they act very much like guest accounts. ie mail flow works to external address but IMs stay within the org and do not go to an external federated company.
Hi AlistairKeay1 ,
Microsoft doesn't support Azure AD contacts in Microsoft Teams.
Take a look at the Microsoft Teams app Unified Contacts from glueckkanja-gab, my employer.
The app will find Azure AD contacts and will support your users to select the correct calling type like Teams call or PSTN call. Also, it allows to dial the office phone number easily from the contact card or the cell phone number.
Currently, the app supports Azure AD and the personal Outlook contact store (requires Exchange Online) for contact search.
Some new features are just around the corner and will come in the next few weeks.
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/app/085251c0-aef3-11ea-bccf-6fc12269b243?source=app-details-dialog
- AlistairKeay1Brass ContributorThanks for the reply.
When you say "Microsoft doesn't support Azure AD contacts in Microsoft Teams" _ is this documented anywhere?
Why was the MS engineer able to demonstrate that is appeared to work for him.
Thanks for the suggestion of your application- Sorry, can't help out with an official docs article. It's just testing and searching the web.
And it's my experience from several Microsoft Temas Phone System projects in my daily work as UC consultant 😉