Forum Discussion
Does Microsoft Teams use Global Address List (organization) contacts?
You can search for people in your organisation but there is no address book were you can list all persons in your organisation. You search in the search bar.
You can also search for contacts in your own contact list from outlook. Calls > Contacts > Find a contact
Why there is no address book in Teams like in Outlook? I guess that it has not been requested enough for Microsoft to create it. But there is a uservoice requesting this, vote for it and spread it and Microsoft might consider to implement it.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/36949507-team-address-books-and-company-wide-address-book
I suppose you both are correct. I was thinking maybe it was a setting similar to others that is restrictive if not configured. In the docs referenced above it has;
"For all of these example scenarios (and more), information barrier policies can be defined to prevent or allow communications in Microsoft Teams. Such policies can prevent people from calling or chatting with those they shouldn't, or enable people to communicate only with specific groups in Microsoft Teams."
Regardless, I hope you can find a solution that does want you want.
Forrest_H is there a powershell command to hide a Team (Teams) from the Global address book? I tried the following [Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "IT Docs" -AccessType Private]
Still there; I also tried [ Set-MailContact -Identity mailto:ITDocs@xxxxxxxx.com -HiddenFromAddressListEnabled $true
it is also still there.
Any ideas?
- By default now new Teams created are hidden from the GAL. If you have any that's not hidden then you can run the following in the Exchange Online PowerShell module.
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity “MyTeam” -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true - Check again tomorrow. Many of the configuration changes seem to take several hours.
One of the many things that will frustrate you in managing Teams.
