AS 4.1 - Contacts Settings Removed.

Any particular reason given by MS as to why they eliminated the Sync
Settings for Contacts in AS 4.1? I don't see anything about it in the MSKB.

I just installed 4.1 after using 3.7 & 3.8 for the last few years, because I
just purchsed a Cingular 8125 w/ WM5. I miss 3.8 already!

Used to be that you were able to select specific Contacts to sync in the
settings. But now the settings for Contacts is grayed out.

So if you have >2,000 contacts in Outlook 2003, and you most certainly don't
want all of them on your device, how do you accomplish that?

Or don't you?

Thanks.

--
Jim McGowan

Hi Jim,

Its the WM 5.0 device design which doesn't support the Settings feature of
Contacts within ActiveSync. If you connect an older device with AS 4.1 it
will appear.

At the moment the only work around I can think is that you move the contacts
that you do not wish to synchronize into another folder. Since AS supports
sync of only the default Contacts folder.

--
Regards,
Raj Pillai
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj


"Jim McGowan" <> wrote in message
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> Any particular reason given by MS as to why they eliminated the Sync
> Settings for Contacts in AS 4.1? I don't see anything about it in the
> MSKB.
>
> I just installed 4.1 after using 3.7 & 3.8 for the last few years, because
> I just purchsed a Cingular 8125 w/ WM5. I miss 3.8 already!
>
> Used to be that you were able to select specific Contacts to sync in the
> settings. But now the settings for Contacts is grayed out.
>
> So if you have >2,000 contacts in Outlook 2003, and you most certainly
> don't want all of them on your device, how do you accomplish that?
>
> Or don't you?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jim McGowan
>
>
>

Thanks folks.

I do already have my contacts split into several folders, for other
purposes.

Guess I'll just have to rethink my folder structure and break it down
a little more.

Thanks for the quick replies!

Jim McGowan

On 2 Mar 2006 05:52:45 -0800, wrote:

>Jim:
>
>I manage my mother's address book through an Outlook floder. Raj's
>suggestion is actually superior to the pick-list. IIRC, the pick-list
>had no memory from session to session, but once you put something in a
>folder, it's there to stay.
>
>Doug Goncz
>Replikon Research
>Falls Church, VA 22044-0394
>Compaq TC1000 and Siemens SX66

Hi,

Just to add, if you are in the habit of using folders to sort your contacts,
then you might want to take a look at the Outlook PCS add-in -
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj/OutlookPCS.html

--
Regards,
Raj Pillai
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj


<> wrote in message
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> Jim:
>
> I manage my mother's address book through an Outlook floder. Raj's
> suggestion is actually superior to the pick-list. IIRC, the pick-list
> had no memory from session to session, but once you put something in a
> folder, it's there to stay.
>
> Doug Goncz
> Replikon Research
> Falls Church, VA 22044-0394
> Compaq TC1000 and Siemens SX66
>