6.9. Contacts in Teams

You can share your contacts with internal and external partners. Depending on the requirements, different methods exist.

  • The Global address book provides the contact data for all users. Each user can use those contacts.

  • To make additional contacts available for internal users, proceed as follows:

    • Create a new personal or public folder where you can copy or move the wanted contacts to.

    • Share this folder with all users or only with certain users.

    You can also share an existing folder with read or write permissions. Further information can be found in Permissions.

  • To share contacts with external partners proceed as follows:

    • Create a new personal or public folder where you can copy or move the wanted contacts to.

    • Publish this folder.

    Further information can be found in Publishing data.

  • If another user published a contact folder, you can access those contacts by subscribing to this contact folder. Further information can be found in Subscribing to data.

  • If another user shared a contact folder with you, you can use those contacts. Further information can be found in Permissions.