"New" Outlook: Add Shared Mailbox to Favorites

I'm really surprised at the response to my simple ask. It's nice to see others have similar workflows and concerns about changes. I know this is WAY late but attached is an image how my "Favorites" area currently looks on my side bar with the 3 inboxes I can manage [1 is my main account, and 2 of them are shared with me from my IT department]. This is effectively what I would like to be able to do with the new version of Outlook. It's honestly the single thing keeping me from switching. That inability to drag/drop my favorites into a single spot for easy access.

I tried this also, and I don't think by adding favorite and naming the mailbox, that what you are seeing is the inbox. Infact it seems to just be basically searching for emails to/from that address. I can see by the "in folder" tags that the emails displayed are from any number of folders (sent, deleted etc). So it seems to be more of a search than to promote a folder to favorites like you could do before.

I have 5 shared mailboxes which I need to monitor. My personal mailbox is the least interesting, frankly I work out of the others. Even the Inbox on those shared mailboxes are not of interest to me. Under each mailbox I have certain folders allocated to me, those are the ones I need to watch, so promoting them to favorites is the perfect solution. Now I have to basically extend all the mailboxes, folders and subfolders to monitor the ones I need. It's totally inefficient.

This is absolutely essential, I have people requesting to change email providers JUST because of this.

I'm happy to go poke people to get this oversight fixed ASAP, any thoughts on where and who else needs to be shown that a key feature is missing?

Agreed. I do not wish to have all of these emails in my Inbox, it is a poor workaround I have had to implement to merely have visibility of new emails in that Shared Mailbox.

It is utterly ridiculous that this still has not bene implemented, and likely hundreds of thousands of Microsoft resellers will be preventing their customers from using this Outlook 'til it is resolved.

Sadly, that would contribute to the massive number of emails I don't want to respond to. It was in a SHARED mailbox because multiple people monitor that account so that I don't have to deal with it.

Are we back to the "good old days" when Microsoft had two Dev teams? One wrote good operating systems and software and the other wrote Windows ME.