sharing contact lists should be easy right?

Anonymous
2024-02-02T15:02:13+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-09T16:50:32+00:00

    Hello. Is there any update to this. I would like to share a contact list with others in my organization. The contact list is of email addresses outside of my organization.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-12T19:18:33+00:00

    I'm also having the same issue - really need this to be fixed. I saw someone say you can export the contact list and share it that way (what is this? 1995?). I tried to export my list but it just showed up with headers and no actual contacts. This is really frustrating as I have contact groups of over 100 people and sharing this list with other individuals is an absolute pain!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-12T19:59:16+00:00

    I went in and toggled the NEW OUTLOOK button and went back to the old version to send my list. After I sent the list, I went back to the new version. They've been getting feedback for one year now - you'd think they'd have it fixed by now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-29T11:03:52+00:00

    That you cannot do this is inhibiting our company to switch to the new outlook and go all web-based. It is crucial to be able to collaborate on a shared contact list. I mean it can´t be that much more dificult than sharing a calender??

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  5. 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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