Creating and Managing Contacts
If you’re familiar with using an email application such as Outlook, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a contact. A contact in Azure AD or Exchange Online is used for the same purpose—to provide a stored entry in the organization’s address book that can be used as an email recipient. A contact object can be used to reference any mail-enabled recipient—whether it’s an individual’s personal email account, an individual at an organization, a distribution or mailing list, or some sort of shared recipient.
Unlike users, contact objects are not security principals—that is, they have no login identity or password connected to them. Contact objects, however, can be made members of the distribution lists.
Contact objects can be created in either the Microsoft 365 admin center or the Exchange admin center.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center
The Microsoft 365 admin center provides a streamlined...