SharePoint/Outlook 2003 shared contact folders: sync'ing custom as well as plain-old Contact fields

[Michael Herman \(Parallelspace\)]

We've been working with the SharePoint 2003's ability to sync contacts with
Outlook 2003.

We need some help synching plain old fields like Department and Categories:

1. When we import Outlook 2003 contacts to a SP2003 Contact list, these
fields are not being imported. Can this be configured? Simply adding this
fields to the SP Contact list is not enough.

2. When the contacts are sync'ed from the SPS2003 Contact list back to a
shared Outlook 2003 contact folder, the data is not being sync'ed (even when
we go to the SP site, add Department and Categories as custom fields on the
Contact List and supply the data on the SP site).

Any thoughts?

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Michael Herman

Parallelspace Corporation

Developers of Active Collaboration Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint,
Microsoft InfoPath, Groove Workspace and Microsoft Live Communications
Server


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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This is by design. If you want any additional integration, you'd have to
code it. Randy Byrne's new article at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_ol2003_ta/html/odc_OLWhatsNew2k3.asp
is a great place to start.