Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step

Copying SharePoint Contacts into Outlook 2007

You can copy any single contact or event item from a SharePoint list to Outlook 2007. Once the contact item is copied into the Contacts folder, the contacts item in the Contacts folder and the contacts item on the SharePoint Contacts list are independent of each other—that is, there is no link between the two items. Therefore, amendments made to the contact in the Outlook 2007 Contacts folder are not reflected on the SharePoint Contacts list. To ensure that your contact information does not become out of date, you should assign a definitive location for a specific contact by maintaining it as a contacts item on either a SharePoint Contacts list or in your Outlook 2007 Contacts folder. If contact information ...