From what I was able to figure out, this is a feature in the old outlook app but not the new one.
sharing contact lists should be easy right?
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I'm hoping someone out there can help me sort this out finally...
Our org has a group of members, all external to our organization (none have an org domain name email), who we all email on a regular basis. I have created a "contact list" through the people tab in Outlook, and added all those contacts to the list. My question is very simple...
How do I share that contact list with my coworkers?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2024-04-12T19:54:30+00:00 Did anyone ever figure this out?
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Anonymous
2024-11-01T17:42:25+00:00 Not having a share button for a contact list seems like a massive oversight and an easy fix. What gives?
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Anonymous
2025-01-06T19:50:54+00:00 I was looking at this issue today (1/06/2025) and out of frustration, I switched the user back to classic Outlook. As it was switching, a survey popped up and asked me why I was switching so I typed in that there are issues with shared contact lists. Once I did that, a help box was displayed stating that new Outlook does not support shared contacts.
Once the switch back to classic Outlook completed, the shared contact list showed up as expected.
WTAF is Microsoft doing with this new Outlook garbage? Crippling the Outlook client and calling it "New" is absolute insanity.
I hope this helps someone
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Anonymous
2024-08-14T19:06:47+00:00 Correct it's not available in the new outlook and I've just learned you can no longer have shared contacts in a public folder and share that way either. So both options are non-functional as of now which for my org makes it unusable in general.