Outlook Connector: Categories don't sync

[Yuniam]

I use Office Live Mail by Windows Live (these names have got to be better)...
anyways...

First of all... there's gotta be an easier to add contacts to categories,
such as the easy 'drag and drop' funtion in Outlook 2007 when you change the
view in the contact list by "Categories".

Second.... my contacts sync fine with the Outlook Connector with the
exception that no matter how many times I put a contact into a category using
Outlook, Office Live/Windows Live doesn't 'update' the contact to show the
same category.

What ends up happening? I spend an hour to categories my 325 contacts in
Outlook only to come back later when the system (office live) feels like, to
find all my contact 'uncategorized' again!

This happens even when I categorize the contacts in Office Live (online) the
Categories don't sync with Outlook.

PLEAAAAAAAAASE fix this!

Thank you.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

First of all... there's gotta be an easier to add contacts to categories,
such as the easy 'drag and drop' funtion in Outlook 2007 when you change the
view in the contact list by "Categories".

Another easy way is to select all the items you want to change, right-click
the selection, and choose "Categorize". If you want to make the same changes
to all of then, this is one way.

Second.... my contacts sync fine with the Outlook Connector with the
exception that no matter how many times I put a contact into a category
using
Outlook, Office Live/Windows Live doesn't 'update' the contact to show the
same category.

What ends up happening? I spend an hour to categories my 325 contacts in
Outlook only to come back later when the system (office live) feels like, to
find all my contact 'uncategorized' again!

I haven't experimented with categories and Outlook Connector. I can do that.

 

[Yuniam]

Brian:

I tried this out this morning... went to my Contacts in Office Live/Windows
Live and added a new contact (Test) and gave it a category. I went to my
Outlook 2007, hit send and received, looked in my contacts and .... there was
the new contact "Test" but... uncategorized.

Yuniam

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Categories in Hotmail/Live are Distribution lists in Outlook. The connector
will sync the category/dl name but not the members.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I tried this out this morning... went to my Contacts in Office Live/Windows
Live and added a new contact (Test) and gave it a category. I went to my
Outlook 2007, hit send and received, looked in my contacts and .... there
was
the new contact "Test" but... uncategorized.

There are some features of Outlook that aren't available via the Outlook
Connector. I'll try to take a look at it.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Categories in the online acct are dl's in outlook.

if you create the DL in outlook it syncs to the live acct as a "category"
and any members of the DL not online are added as contacts.

"Categories" created online will sync to outlook as a DL but contain no
members. This isn't much of a surprise as importing DLs is always buggy -
the members often get lost.

Bottom line - make the DL in outlook and sync up.

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