Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step

Moving an Outlook 2007 Contact to a SharePoint Contact List

By connecting a SharePoint Contacts list to Outlook 2007, you are creating an Outlook 2007 Contacts folder. You can then copy the contact information in your Outlook 2007 Contacts folder back into a SharePoint Contacts list. The new contacts within the Contacts folder are added to the SharePoint Contacts list the next time Outlook 2007 synchronizes with SharePoint, and you can then share the contact information with users who visit your SharePoint site. Any other users who also have connected the SharePoint Contacts list to their copy of Outlook 2007 will observe the new contacts within their Outlook contacts folder, when they next synchronize with SharePoint.

In this exercise, you will ...