Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

Creating a SharePoint contact list and connecting it to Outlook 2010

SharePoint 2010 and Outlook 2010 both provide sophisticated contact-management capabilities. By joining the two together you can get the best of both worlds.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

• SharePoint 2010 Foundation
• SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
• Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need the Contribute permission level to edit contacts in Outlook 2010 and have those changes synchronized back to SharePoint. This normally means that you will be a member of the site member's group.

You will need the Reader permission level if you want to synchronize contacts (read-only) to Outlook 2010. You will be able to change the contacts but those changes ...