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Iron Contributor

Mar 02, 2017

Company Contact List

Whilst testing the preview release of Skype for Business (Cloud PBX) it became apparent that I have not seen anywhere so far a mention of how to add a companies contact list or even just the ability ...

Brass Contributor

Hello Peter,

I remember we had a feature wherein we can add the contact details of the users in the Local Active Directory and then synchronize from the Local AD to Office 365 AD. Additionally if we have all the users assigned with the Manager and the hierarchy in the Local AD and we can get a group created whenever a new user account is created in the hierarchy.

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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt651713.aspx

With Regards,

Satish

Peter Longley

Iron Contributor

Mar 08, 2017

Hi Satish,

You might have mis-understood my comments, I know we can add contact information to our users etc. but what doesn't happen is that we are able to create a group say "Support" and add all the support team members to it and have it appear on all users Skype for Business system accordingly.

Also as a company often you have regular external contacts that all staff contact, as such it would be good to be able to have an external contact list which you setup centrally for all users to see in Skype for Business.

Hopefully that makes it clearer.

Regards

Peter

Satish Upadhyaya
Brass Contributor
Mar 08, 2017
Hello Peter,

Apologizes for the misunderstanding the issue.

In that case we might require to create a distribution list for the users we need to add in a group. But adding the Distribution Group in the Skype for Business Client has to be done manually there is not automation that can performed.

For the external contact we would require to add them individually as this users are not a part of tenant we can't even add them to the distribution list.

With Regards,
Satish