outlook for mac contacts not showing up in search

#Outlook for mac contacts not showing up in search manual#

#Outlook for mac contacts not showing up in search manual#

However, with over 800 contacts, the estimate is that about 50 of them are missing this 'File As' field, so a manual seek through each record would take too long to perform the edit.

The 'File As' field appears to be populated automatically if the contact is created or edited on Outlook for Windows (presumably OWA as well but we didn't test this). One of my colleagues did a bit of research and thought it had something to do with the 'File As' field being empty. We're aware that personal distribution lists are not usable on Outlook 2011 unless saved locally (they're visible in her account if using OWA or Outlook on Windows), but she has a number of contacts which do not show up on Outlook 2011 or any of her iDevices.Īgain, they are visible if using Outlook on Windows or OWA. change of provider because the Exchange 2003 provider wasn't going to upgrade and they'd already purchased Office:Mac They are both connecting to an Exchange 2007 server that we host.ĭuring the upgrade, she also went from using local contacts (in Entourage) against an Exchange 2003 server, to our Exchange 2007 server (ie. (I figure this is more an Outlook 2011/Mac issue, but also affects iDevices - by this I mean an iPhone/iPad - syncing to Exchange).Ī client with over 800 contacts has migrated to Office 2011 for Mac from an Entourage 2008 setup. This one's been baffling me for a bit and wondering how common this is (and whether there's a fix).