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Stephen Rayda's avatar
Stephen Rayda
Brass Contributor
Jul 17, 2016

Office 365 Groups in Outlook for Mac

All,

 

We would really like to get O365 Groups exposed in Outlook for Mac as it is in Outlook for Windows. The lack of this feature makes deployment of Groups much more difficult in the executive levels of our company. (Keep in mind, without executive buy in, driving technology change is much harder).

  1. Any idea on timeline yet?
  2. Can we at least get an icon in Outlook for Mac's toolbar that launches the browers to the OWA page to ease the pain?
  • RobOK's avatar
    RobOK
    Bronze Contributor

    There should be a Mac Office section in these forums, rahter than having all the Mac topics spread throughout... just my .02.  It was very helpful in the yammer-based community.

     

    Thanks,
    Rob

  • yes we plan support Groups in Outlook for Mac in the future but do not have a date to share at this stage (fyi @Amit Gupta )
  • I think an issue here is that the current Mac client is based on EWS (Exchange Web Services). Groups are not supported by EWS, so some work is required to enable Groups using another protocol (the Graph API perhaps). I bet there's some delay caused here.
    • Amit Gupta (UC)'s avatar
      Amit Gupta (UC)
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      Our Team is working on bringing Groups into Outlook Mac client. At this point it is hard to give a more concrete timeline. We will provide an update on timeline through our roadmap in couple of Months.
      • AZOMP's avatar
        AZOMP
        Copper Contributor

        Any update on this issue - I have an open case [Case #:20795784} and the tech does not seem to know how to help.  We just purchased a MAC for our office and did not know we would not be able to send from our group.

    • Amit Gupta (UC)'s avatar
      Amit Gupta (UC)
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      We are actively working on it. It is currently in Internal Dogfood stage and we will be opening it for Mac insider ring in Jan/Feb timeframe. As for public release it is still few months away. We will add this on our Public roadmap in new year.
      If you have a customer blocking usage of Groups because of MAC, we would like to engage early and may be bring them into early adopter if they are willing. Let us know. Thanks.
      • Martijn Steffens's avatar
        Martijn Steffens
        Copper Contributor
        Hi Amit, thanks for the update.

        I think the customer want to be part of the early adaption option. I will check with them tomorrow. If you can let me know which info you need ✌🏼
    • Dean Stein's avatar
      Dean Stein
      Copper Contributor

      Thanks Krish - glad to see this is coming.

       

      Any plans to allow working with Group files directly in Outlook for Mac?

       

      Also - noticed that you had "Send to OneNote" activated on your Outlook.  Any idea when that will be released as well?

       

      Thanks.

       

      -Dean

      • Krish Gali's avatar
        Krish Gali
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        Hi Dean,
        We are constantly working on adding new capabilities into Outlook for Mac and also to groups experiences in the app. We don't have much to share now about the specifics or timelines. Looking forward to hearing feedback about what we shipped yesterday once it becomes available for you.
        Thanks,
        Krish

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