View Group membership in outlook app for any user
Earlier version of Outlook Desktop application use to provide Group / DL membership information of any user, within the user property window opened from the Address Book or from any email. But the latest version of Outlook Windows app as well as the Outlook Webapp for Microsoft 365 no longer provide this Group / DL membership info within the User property. Does this require some configuration change at the Admin level (Hide Microsoft 365 Groups from the global address list) ? OR Is there an alternate option available within the new Outlook Windows app to view the Group / DL membership of any user?
Outlook App on phone : distribution lists and distribution groups
A client uses distribution lists (DLs, aka Outlook Contact Groups) to send mailshots Bcc: to external contacts who are members of their club. There are 21 distribution lists, each with typically 300 addressees; some members are in more than one list. They update the lists and add or remove lists using Windows Outlook. A few of the lists are nested, with several child lists being mailable from a parent list as well as individually. All fine. Client happy. They now wish to mailshot from phones as well as from Windows desktop. But Outlook Android and iOS apps don’t support DLs*, whether created on the phone or synched from Exchange. They find Outlook on the Web clunky to use with a phone screen. And the eventual solution must be manageable from Outlook and not need the Exchange Admin Centre (EAC) or Powershell. They were advised (in Microsoft documentation I think) to switch to ‘Microsoft 365 Groups’ which ARE supported by the Outlook app. But Microsoft 365 Groups themselves – with their own Sharepoint site and group calendar as well as mail – are clearly for team-working and collaboration, and managing 21 of them just to distribute mail is NOT the most elegant solution and don't resemble DLs at all. And Microsoft 365 Groups cannot apparently be nested. MSFT has made the wrong assumption that a DL has been superseded by a Group – that a Group contains everything a DL does and more. And that is the problem: Groups with or without Sharepoint libraries and Calendars are clearly designed for Teams. But ‘Traditional’ DLs are also used for mailshots to customers, suppliers and so on. Does anyone want their customers to receive an introductory email saying “Welcome to the XYZ Group…use the group to share messages and files, and to coordinate group events” ? And ‘traditional’ DLs are maintained via Windows Outlook (or Outlook on the web) by clerical staff who should not (and do not want to) be exposed to the fearsome technicalities of EAC or Microsoft 365 AC. Distribution groups (NB not DLs!) sound a more promising solution, but there is no obvious way to create one in Windows Outlook: Groups Yes, but Distribution Groups No. If a Distribution Group is created in EAC, it is then necessary to go via Delivery Management to restrict the specified sender. To resemble sending Bcc: to a DL, there needs to be one nominated sender, and the recipient must be able to reply to the sender but not to see anyone else to whom the email has been distributed (and hence not be able to reply to them). If any of this functionality is available with a Distribution Groups, perhaps someone can enlighten me. My client is now seriously testing WhatsApp, on the basis that even though broadcast lists (=Bcc DLs) are only supported on a single phone, this is an improvement on the Outlook app that doesn’t support them at all. (WhatsApp Groups, =Cc: DLs, are synched over up to 4 devices, including Windows PCs) Since there seems to be nothing relevant in the MSFT Roadmap for the mobile app, suggestions please? * if this is a restriction of EAS, MSFT seems to have been forgotten that much – perhaps most – phone use is now on WiFi-enabled broadband where the bandwidth and latency constraints should not be a problem.Outlook/Hotmail emails used for hacking
Hello, my facebook account was hacked and email was changed using a hotmail account. I have tried numerous ways to retrieve my account but I can't and tried contacting Microsoft customer support to help me sort this problem. My account has all of my business accounts and I need a support tech to give me the access to that email account so I can retrieve my account. help me pleaseDisplaying Categories in a Group Calender
In Outlook desktop .... When a user sets up a 2nd calendar to share with team members, they are able to see the category assigned to each meeting or event, however when one sets up a group calendar (all users are owners) categories are unique to the individual user's outlook setup. Is there a way to assign categories to meetings so that ALL users can see them?New Outlook Groups Do Not Appear in Outlook 365 Navigation Pane Upon Creation of SharePoint Site
Hello, all. I have been breezing along fairly steadily with creating new SharePoint ('SP') Online sites. They seem to sync nicely with Teams and other programs, too. In the last 48 hours, though, I created ~5 new sites. The client "cards" do appear on their associated SP Hub site, and when I click onConversationsfor each client within SP, it does direct me to the Outlook Group for each client card. But (unlike before) none of these five new Groups appears in Outlook on the left navigation pane. And none of them generated the usualWelcome to the [x] Group to my inbox. It gets worse. My office manager reports that whenshe clicks onConversations, she doesn't even get as far as me. She just gets her general Outlook inbox. So, I'm trying to determine if something has come across the Microsoft tech boards this week where others have experienced the same sort of thing. I can't even find an option to "regenerate" a welcome message to the inbox, and nearly all of the existing community threads assume that the Group is visible and simply requires editing. That's not me! I have learned to try preëmpting the usual feedback to save time! So ... to be clear ... Yes, I have "permissions." I am the owner of this small business of seven people and (effectively) my own IT department. There is no question of "permissions" for the rest of my staff, either, including the aforementioned office manager. I created a checklist for creating new SP sites, and I follow it strictly. No deviations. That includes naming authorized members, assigning permissions, aligning the site with the appropriate SP Hub (I have three), syncing document libraries with OneDrive, altering advance library settings to open programs (such as Word and Excel) in their native apps, connecting the site to Teams, creating channels, reorganizing existing web parts to SP, and then adding parts (e.g. Calendar) that transport the user to the same Group calendar. I even have a set protocol for which menu items will open a new tab in the browser. Bottom line, there is zero difference between the SP sites (pre-2024) whose Outlook Groups do appear in the navigation pane ... and the five new ones that won't behave the same. I changed nothing. Last, I have replicated this problem on my MacBook Pro (M1) and Win11 (Corsair One) PC alike. So this is not a Microsoft vs. Apple hardware issue. The same issue also appears on my law partner's Lenovo (ThinkPad Carbon X1) laptop, so it bridges multiple devices on multiple platforms ... and regardless of user. Moreover, the problems surfaces regardless of new Outlook versus old, and desktop Outlook versus Outlook for Web. Any insights beyond what I've already ruled out would be deeply appreciated! Tom
