Outlook My Contacts and Icloud Contacts

Hi There,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

If I understand correctly, in Outlook, you have to sets of Contacts folders:

1> iCloud Contacts

2> My Contacts.

If that is the case, did you configure the iCloud account in Outlook?

If so, then it would create separate folders for iCloud contacts and Outlook contacts.

The only option in any case would be to Export / Move the Contacts from one to the other one.

Note: Contacts stored locally (My Contacts List) would not synchronize with the iCloud server.

Do get back to us in case if you need more assistance.

Thank you

Thank you for the response. I understand that the locally stored (My Contacts List) will not synchronize with the iCloud server, but will I have to move each individual contact from the local list to the iCloud list or can I do it in one step? I would really like my PC, iPhone and iPad contacts to all match.

I tried to follow this thread, but don't feel like you have answered the question.   Is there a way to copy or sync the iCloud folder with the Outlook My Contacts folder?  From this thread, it sounds like the answer is NO.  However, the answer that keeps being given is how to export the My Contacts folder.... which, in my opinion. was not the question.

Hi Jeff,

Sorry for the apparent confusion that this thread may have created for you.

In the initial post I had pointed it out that synchronization of data between the iCloud Contacts Folder and the Local Outlook Contact Folder is not possible and the work around is to export from one and import it into the other one.

This happens because the data between the iCloud contacts is synchronized with the cloud server, but the Local Contacts are for Outlook use only. Once the data is imported into the iCloud contacts folder, it would keep synchronizing with the cloud server. Data between Local Outlook Contacts folder and iCloud Contacts folder does not synchronize amongst themselves.

Hope this explains, do get back in case if you need any more information.

Thank you

I got it.  Thanks, Ashutosh.

Hi Jeff,

Glad to be of assistance.

Please get back to us in case if you have any other concerns, and we would be glad to assist you further.

Thank you

Hi,

I found it very hard, to match bigger number of Outlook contacts with iPhone6.

Outlook16 doesn´t support Contact groups/subfolders to be synchronised with iPhone6?
Is there some solution available?

A workaround is to use iCloud contacts, which enables Contact groups./subfolders. They are shown and synced with iPhone6. But contacts needs to be transfered from Outlook to iCloud somehow.

Fact is that Outlook can export contacts only in CSV format. Google supports CSV and vCard format. iCloud supports only vCards. 

So it is possible to export contacts in CSV format to Google, then export vCards and import them into iCloud.

Export of contacts in CSV format works, if you have english version of Outlook.

I have Slovenian version of Outlook, so filed names are in Slovenian language and can not be identified by Google Contacts. Is there some solution for this?

Is there some tool to export Outlook contacts into Vcards directly?

I tried to move a lot of contacts from local Contacts folder to iCloud contacts folder inside Outlook as described in your mail. It works, but very slow. After a few 100 contacts, Outlook stops and has to be restarted.

I would be glad to hear your advice, how to do it in a simple effective way.

Kind Regards - Robert