Messenger live wont sync contacts to outlook

[ra126]

I have upgraded to mUn_2.00.SE_WWE_GPS and everything seems fine apart from the orange voicemail bug mentioned in another post.

Messenger synchronized my msn contacts onto the phone so I had 2 of each which was fine as I have all ready read about this issue.

So I updated the msn ones and started to remove the original ones from the phone.. They have a different icon

All appeared fine. It would tell me when my contacts were on line etc etc.
I then went to outlook and made sure there were no contacts in there so I could have a fresh updated list of contacts when it synced.

However these contacts will not synced. I created a test one in outlook and that synced fine to my phone. Am I missing something here??

All I want to have is the same contacts on my phone/windows live and outlook. Surely this can be achieved??

[Moaske]

Are you using ActiveSync 4.5 already...? I suspect that might have got something to do with your issue :)
Do you get any error-messages at all ? Giving us some more clues....?
And very important: what version of Outlook do you run ?

[ra126]

I have it synced with 2 machine and neither work.

1 is windows XP with active sync 4.5 and outlook 2003 the 2nd is vista with the mobile device center and office 2007.

I can sync normal contacts created on the phone or in outlook it is just the ones imported from live messenger that will not copy back to my outlook contacts.

I have a feeling the phone does not recogonise these as contacts as they have a different icon from ones created on the phone. It looks like a grey folder rather than the little address card.

Please help

[Moaske]

Hmmmzz....actually this is very interesting; i didn't dare using Live Messenger up until now just BECAUSE of the syncing of ALL messenger contacts into Outlook. Now that you report that it doesn't, the question raises if M$ has meant this to be...

Then again; did you check the settings under Windows-Live (on your Trinity)? You can go to 'options' with the right soft-key, and there are 6 setting menu's there, where you need option 2 to check the box in front of 'Contacts and Messenger' :)

Let me know if that worked for you...

[ra126]

what has happened is all the msn contacts have sync'd to the phone but not to outlook.... any ideas why

[ra126]

on the menu. select what you want to sync both contacts and messenger and merge duplicates with outlook are ticked

[foxhead]

Hi,

Did you manage to get your messenger contacts to sync with outlook? I have the sample symptoms you have described.

Cheers

[ilordvader]

Is there a way to boost up speed of Sync
Is there a any software or Cab file for it ?

Also want to know after we sync Phone
It keeps repeating to sync, is there a way to stop it ?
With removing the phone

Please Help

[Karl der Käfer]

contacts are NOT merged, but only show up in 1 list.

sim contacts
outlook contacts
msn contacts

are shown whithin the same contact browser but are not really merged.

Each contact type only syncs with it`s proper sourec, pocket outlook wit desktop outlook, msn with msn (or say "live"), and SIM contacts with SIM-import-export programs.

that's all and that's ok.

the real issue is that i find "show SIM-contacts merged yes/no" but cannot find "show msn contacts merged yes/no".

it sucks, but not really too much.

ralf