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Copper Contributor

Apr 24, 2017

Plans to enrich O365 Group conversations with more mailbox-like features?

Currently it appears that O365 groups does not provide the necessary functionality to replace Shared Mailboxes. Due to the limited features offered in Groups, several of our clients are not ready to ...

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jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Apr 24, 2017

How you tried to configure the Group as a regular MailBox in Outlook? You will be able to do there some of the actions you are requesting here such as categorize conversations or move conversations to folders in the group mailbox

Amir Khan

Copper Contributor

Apr 24, 2017

Hi Juan,
I wasn't aware of this configuration option or must be overlooking it. Can you point me to a ms article on it?
Thanks

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Apr 24, 2017
It's not a Microsoft support article but you can see here what I mean: https://jcgonzalezmartin.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/office-365-how-to-add-an-office-365-group-to-owa/
- Freerk Terpstra
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 25, 2017
  I've tried that, but I don't get it work. You can't create folders, and the Sent Item-folder stays empty. I also heared Microsoft is going to add Shared Mailboxes to Groups. But didn't saw any screenshots jet.