Basically I want to be able to text all staff if we have an outage or some other disaster. I have created contacts with every user and their SMTP address is basically their number@vtext.com. Through outlook I am able to text these people but what I want to do is create a distribution group in the GAL that has all of these text contacts in them. Then basically add this distribution group to my contacts, so it syncs with my mobile phone.
All of this happens but the distribution group has a email address associated with it on our domain. Not sure how if there is anyway to add it like this because in order for it to be in the GAL it has to have an email address.
The only other option I can think of is manually adding every single person to my mobile phone which would suck, and then adding them to a group on the phone. There must be an easier way?