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Copper Contributor

Aug 29, 2016

Company Directory in Skype for Business

I've seen this subject discussed in other forums, but want to bring it up here to see if there are any suggestions to resolve this subject in a satisfactory manner. Is there a way to build and propa...

Brad McCarthy

Brass Contributor

Aug 29, 2016

If you are using Exchange AND Skype For Business, you can create an "Everyone" distribution list on Exchange, and have end users simply add that group to their "Favorites" menu. Thats how we advise our end users in a 5k person company. Add their team and location dist. lists, done and done :)

Dale Christian

Brass Contributor

Aug 30, 2016

This is exactly what we do, and it works well. The list updates for everyone as employees are added and deleted in the Everyone DL. The only inconsistency I've found is between the Windows and Mac SfB clients (of course). Our Everyone DL is actually constructed of 2 sub-DLs: All employees + All contingent staff. When adding the Everyone DL, the Mac client properly expands the sub-DLs so you get the list of people. But the Windows client only expands to the sub-DLs, meaning we have to add the sub-DLs individually. I recommend testing your particular configuration before locking in the DL structure.

Anonymous
Apr 07, 2017
The logic of using these groups defy's my understanding of what is the point when you have a directory with everyone in it on the search tab? Can someone enlighten me why you would even want these groups?