MobileMe: Syncing your MobileMe contacts with your Outlook contact folder

To choose how to sync your MobileMe Contacts groups with Microsoft Outlook:

1. Open the MobileMe Control Panel.
2. Select MobileMe Preferences.
3. Click the Sync tab.
4. Make sure Contacts is enabled and Outlook is selected from the drop-down menu to the right.

   

5. Click Options. Note: You may need to sync at least once before the Options button appears.
6. In the options window, choose how you would like to sync: 
   • Choosing "Sync all contacts with main contact folder" puts all your contacts into the main contacts folder in Outlook. It's helpful if you have contacts in multiple groups in MobileMe as it improves search and auto-complete for those contacts when you use Outlook. Your groups are preserved at me.com, on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
   • Choosing "Sync contact groups as Outlook contact folders" continues the behavior prior to MobileMe Control Panel version 1.6: each MobileMe Contacts group will be represented as a contact folder in Outlook. However, Outlook forces each contact to belong to only one group. This means that contacts can't be in two groups, such as Work and Friends. Also, after using this option, if you search for a contact that was in more than one group, you won't find it, and auto-complete of that contact's email address won't work.