Nov 06 2017 10:51 AM
Good news! We're currently rolling out drag and drop for messages and conversations into groups in Outlook on the web first for First Release customers, then Standard release customers.
It's much easier to explain with a GIF:
Support for Outlook 2016 for Windows is coming soon--stay tuned.
You can find the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/24e809db-70e1-45b7-8d54-efac7951dc95
Jan 15 2019 11:36 PM
Jan 16 2019 05:20 AM
Jan 16 2019 05:22 AM
Feb 13 2019 01:50 PM
Hi Everyone - we all agree that it sucks that we have to wait so long for this what should be a "basic" feature.
We just want basic drag and drop for now, and if they are developing more wondrous wizardry around this feature then it could wait (Agile, Microsoft.... Agile!)
Anyway... that said, if we have to wait until Q4 2019, can people advise what processes they have put in place to move emails in a user mailbox to an O365 mailbox? Do you encourage drag and drop of 1 email via web client? CC in the Group mailbox? Use 3rd party apps to save the the emails into SharePoint libraries (.....*gulp*)
If anyone has any training or "how to" guides or experience they would like to share, this collateral would be most appreciated.
Cheers!
Feb 20 2019 08:50 PM
Mar 14 2019 01:14 PM
Also awaiting this to come to Outlook Desktop. Please advise when this feature will be added?
Apr 04 2019 08:31 PM
Hi @Ethan Li, any word on when this feature will finally be complete, and when we can start using it inside of Outlook on the desktop? We also desperately need to be able to move more than 1 conversation at a time.
Apr 18 2019 06:50 AM
You say this works for 1 conversation or 100 messages, that does not appear to be the case. It only appears to allow 1 conversation at a time?
Apr 26 2019 12:50 AM
@Joe McGiven Corban Thank you for your feedback. My name is Sri and I wanted to provide a quick update on the latest target timeline for shipping Drag and Drop on Outlook for Windows. We are currently internally testing Drag and Drop (on Win32 Outlook client) and are looking to release the feature to monthly/current channel customers by end of Q3, 2019. Other channel updates will follow. We totally understand the frustration caused by the delay and appreciate your patience on this. We will keep you posted on further updates.
Apr 28 2019 07:13 PM
@Sri Ramya Mallipudi Thanks for the feedback Sri. This is the first update we have had in a long time, particularly for such a critical feature. Does this testing include selecting multiple conversations and emails at once when drag/dropping? Moving one at a time is extremely frustrating for our users.
Apr 29 2019 01:10 PM
Hi@Scott_Whitmore ,
Yes, the feature includes being able to move multiple emails from inbox to Groups. Hope this helps.
Apr 29 2019 02:04 PM
@Sri Ramya Mallipudi I see you are willing to share more details. We are so happy. Is it then also possible to create a subfolder in the inbox and move it there or is it just a long list of emails resp. conversations in the root of the group mailbox ? Thank you very much for answering.
Apr 29 2019 02:59 PM
Hi @Tomas Paulas,
Creating a sub-folder within a Group is currently not supported and is a separate feature from "Drag and drop to Groups". Hope this helps.
Jul 21 2019 04:57 PM
@Sri Ramya Mallipudi - Hi Sri, thanks for you message back in April. Do you have any fresh updates for Drag and Drop please.
Are you still looking to release the feature to monthly/current channel customers by end of Q3, 2019? If so, that's great. Any update you can provide on this would be appreciated.
Cheers, Joe
Aug 06 2019 10:07 AM
I see this has recently slipped to Q1 CY2020, thats disappointing. I have a bunch of customers I need to migrate from on prem Exchange 2010 to Office 365 and they are heavy public folder users, I was hoping to migrate them to groups. Alas now this feature has slipped I am going to have to weigh up keeping them on public folders which I didn't really want to do.
@Sri Ramya Mallipudi Has this really slipped all the way into next year?
Aug 28 2019 02:16 AM
For a long time now we are waiting for the possibility to move our e-mails in public folders to Office 365 groups using Outlook 2016. Do you have any idea when this will be made possible in the near future?
And, as far as I know this is still only possible using OWA by a 100 at a time. But even this I haven't been able to accomplish so far. In OWA I am unable to first select an email and then scroll down, and shift-select the 100th email. Maybe that's not the way to do it?
Oct 22 2019 09:19 PM
Anyone think this will actually be released in November?
I hope so.... been waiting for aaaaaages.
It says November, but will be for Monthly Channel only I guess..
Nov 06 2019 04:17 PM
Nov 06 2019 04:53 PM - edited Nov 06 2019 04:54 PM
This is just crazy, instead all our team has to have a massive shared mailbox to allow drag and drop into folders. Surely its not that hard of a request considering its in OWA already..........