Comments on: Bridging the Gap Between Microsoft Teams and Email

By: Jim Allen

Jim Allen — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 10:23:52 +0000

My customers ask about creating meetings for Teams Channels Vs Outlook meetings. They expect the meeting invite functionality like Outlook, but don’t want the Organizer to be a person.

Any recommendations for how to best use the calendar/meeting function within Teams/Outlook?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:39:34 +0000

In reply to Eric Burger. Maybe it will all be good in the Teams 2.0 architecture...

By: Eric Burger

Eric Burger — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:14:44 +0000

Very helpful article, again, thank you!
Looking back I think it is about 15 years already that users ask for easy out-of-the-box capabilities to drag-n-drop their e-mail messages within Outlook in a virtual SharePoint folder or documentset. It has been a ‘market opportunity’ for all those years, well understood by the Colligo’s, OnePlaceMails, HarmonIe’s and several more vendors of this planet.

Why does Microsoft make it so hard for those enjoying or needing case-files (storing documents AND e-mail in context, also easy for retention) in their SP teamsites to get those messages ‘seamlessly’ from A to B?

My experience so far with the Outlook to Teams option is that it is clumsy, not intuitive and basically adding the mail message to a channel or chat is not what I wanted in the first place.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:11:17 +0000

In reply to Gordon Ross.

According to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-an-email-to-teams-from-outlook-108fc274-1e64-4ea1-90bb-51c6c7f267e3, you need Outlook for Mac 16.46.106.0 or higher to load the add=in. The add-in is not specific to Windows…

By: Gordon Ross

Gordon Ross — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:28:49 +0000

I’m a Mac user and I’ve never seen the Share to Teams option or plugin in Outlook.

The biggest pain for me is not being able to drag & drop attachments from Outlook to Teams. You have to manually save it off first, then upload it to Teams. Not seemless