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Employee Directory App: The Staff Directory in Every Phone's Contacts
If you've been asked for an employee directory app for staff phones, the Contacts app may already be it. How to put your Entra ID, Google Workspace or CSV directory into iPhone and Android Contacts, with caller ID, read-only control and leavers removed.
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How to Add External Contacts to the Global Address List in Microsoft 365
Add suppliers, contractors and partners to your Microsoft 365 Global Address List as mail contacts, one at a time or in bulk from a CSV, and get them onto staff phones with Contactzilla's Microsoft 365 Org Contacts importer.
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How to Hide a User from the Global Address List (GAL) in Microsoft 365, Including Hybrid
Hide users, shared mailboxes, groups and contacts from the Global Address List in the Exchange admin center or PowerShell, fix the hybrid error with msExchHideFromAddressLists, and keep leavers off staff phones.
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How to Update the Global Address List in Outlook (and Why Changes Take Time to Show)
How to refresh the Global Address List in Outlook, where admins change someone's details, why changes take up to a day or more to show, and how to get updates onto staff phones.
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How to Sync Outlook Contacts with Android (Microsoft 365), Including Shared Company Contacts
How to sync Outlook contacts with an Android phone, what we found when we tested a shared mailbox, what to check when contacts don't arrive, and how to give every staff phone one read-only list.
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Vendor List Template: Free Vendor and Supplier Contact List
A free vendor and supplier contact list template for Google Sheets and CSV, with the 24-hour lines, account numbers and escalation contacts most templates leave out, and columns that import into a shared address book on staff phones.
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