05-15-2019 05:39 AM
As I'm moving users from Skype for Business to Teams, one question that keeps coming up is how to search for other users in a specific department or with a particular job title. This was something that our staff used regularly in Skype.
Initial attempts to search for a department or title in Teams were unsuccessful. Is there a way to do this, or is it just not possible currently?
05-15-2019 05:54 AM
05-15-2019 06:24 AM
@adam deltinger @Steve Whitcher just tried this myself, and unfortunately the Who bot can't find users by their job title or anything like that either. That's too bad because this would be a helpful feature.
I wonder if this functionality will eventually come over from Skype...?
05-15-2019 06:30 AM
05-15-2019 06:41 AM
@adam deltinger That was my first thought as well, but it doesn't seem to be able to answer questions of this nature.
05-15-2019 07:18 AM
@Steve Whitcher Since we don't have Exchange Online we don't have a Who bot, so we use the organization tab display for a person. A poor substitute but helps at times. Search for someone you know is in the department you are looking for and click on the Organization tab . Or click on a user icon in a teams conversation and do the same thing. Handy unless your company has disabled viewing of organization structure. All you need for that to work is populate the manager field in your AD accounts.
05-15-2019 07:26 AM
@Robin Nilsson Thanks, I've actually suggested that to users as an option as well. In some cases, that works, but it's not ideal when they are used to searching for a department name and getting a list of everyone in the department. Especially when they don't know the name of anyone in that dept off the top of their head, and just want to find anyone in that dept.
05-15-2019 07:27 AM
There is a UserVoice request for this already, but with only a dozen votes so far. Please consider voting for it if you think it should be added:
10-14-2020 05:56 AM
I agree with @Steve Whitcher Please vote for this feature: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35077552-add-location-ad-to-se...