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ccalberti
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Apr 26, 2020
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Updated Outlook Groups - Are Teams Aotomatically Updates?

I have set up several Teams based on existing Outlook (365) Groups.  I find this much easier to do in Outlook, particularly when they involve may Guests (outside the domain 365 organization) as part ...
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Rob Ellis
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Apr 26, 2020
When adding a user to an O365 group via Outlook, as long as you are sure that you are looking at the correct matching Team (and not a duplicated one with the same name), then it will have the same membership, however sometimes it can take some time for the change of membership to be visible in Teams.

How long did you wait?
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    ccalberti
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 26, 2020

    Rob Ellis It has now been two hours, and additions of guests (out of domain) to several Outlook Groups have not ported to the Teams formed from these groups.  Nor can I add guests through the add member/add people functions in Teams, whic seems to recognize only people with a domain email address.

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    ccalberti
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    Apr 26, 2020

    Rob Ellis As you can imagine, I am the impatient Type A sort.  I am a long-time 365 user but new to Teams and am today going through the various online training, particularly for meetings.  Most of my teams are predominately "Guests" as I have my own consulting business and want to Teams for clients as far more secure tan Zoom, plus facilitates sharing documents, etc.  So let me give this a few hours and I'll check back here.  Thanks for the quick reply.

     

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      PeterRising
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      Apr 26, 2020

      ccalberti 

       

      I agree with what Rob Ellis says here in that it can take a while to populate to Teams.  This is why I prefer to assign membership directly from Teams.  Interested to know what your issues are in setting it up this way?

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        ccalberti
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        Apr 26, 2020

        PeterRising Thanks for the note.  When I use the "Add Members" or "Add more people" functions, the program only sees contacts who are part of my domain 365 exchange account, not guests (people outside my domain).  I can see guests in the call fiunction, as this seems to more or less sync with my outlook exchange contacts, thought this is not seamless, as it is in Zoom or Signal.  I am trying to get clients weaned off of Zoom and onto the Teams platform.  Not seamless in the use of exchange contacts on my end as the host and originator of the meetings.