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Updated Outlook Groups - Are Teams Aotomatically Updates?
Outlook contacts and Teams contacts don't play nice together. Take a look at this other thread which discusses this in detail. Seems like many people have been having this issue for some time,
Rob Ellis As you can imagine, I am the impatient Type A sort. I am a long-time 365 user but new to Teams and am today going through the various online training, particularly for meetings. Most of my teams are predominately "Guests" as I have my own consulting business and want to Teams for clients as far more secure tan Zoom, plus facilitates sharing documents, etc. So let me give this a few hours and I'll check back here. Thanks for the quick reply.
PeterRising Thanks for the note. When I use the "Add Members" or "Add more people" functions, the program only sees contacts who are part of my domain 365 exchange account, not guests (people outside my domain). I can see guests in the call fiunction, as this seems to more or less sync with my outlook exchange contacts, thought this is not seamless, as it is in Zoom or Signal. I am trying to get clients weaned off of Zoom and onto the Teams platform. Not seamless in the use of exchange contacts on my end as the host and originator of the meetings.
PeterRising All right, maybe some progress. Nothing has automatically ported from the amended Outlook Group into Teams. However, I noticed that you added Gates by typing his email address rather than his Contact Name. So, i went back and looked at the specific email addresses I used to add them into the Outlook Group, and then typed that email address into the Teams add function (rather than the Contact Name), and that worked. As I said, Contacts synchronization between Outlook and Teams is not seamless and easy. I will have to duplicate in Teams every addition I make to an Outlook Group, unless I am missing something.