Office 365 Shared Contacts

Street · 18 May 2015 at 16:29

What's the best way to create a shared contacts and calendar list in Office 365 that can be accessed by Outlook 2013 clients, OWA and Iphone/Android? I've tried various ways using Shared Mailboxes and Public Folders etc but they don't work across all devices. Am I being retarded here?

Caged · 19 May 2015 at 00:12

You might be able to do something with SharePoint and an appropriate app for the mobile devices, but honestly drowning yourself is more fun.

Street · 19 May 2015 at 13:48

Haha, yeh that doesn't sound fun. Calendars I've got working fine with the OWA app and a shared mailbox. This works on Outlook, OWA and mobile now. Unfortunately the OWA app doesn't seem to work with a shared mailboxes contacts.

Caged · 19 May 2015 at 21:12

I see this quite a lot and what it ends up being 90% of the time is someone trying to get Exchange to perform roles that it wasn't really designed to do. If you have a pool of contacts for clients/suppliers and the calendar is for meeting them then you will be much better served by a CRM application.

HungryHippos · 19 May 2015 at 21:38

Try putting them in Public Folders