Outlook AddressBook Display & Syncing


When syncing an Outlook contact folder, the Outlook AddressBook may not display correctly as per the selected settings (First Last or FileAs) after the sync process. This issue affects the contacts that have been updated via the Sync process and is not unique to a specific sync program (Outlook has absolutely no involvement in any sync process

This issue does not occur when using either the CG Toolkit <FullName> or <FileAs> standardization function (as of version 1.4.1) regardless of the standardized field format selected (i.e. the FullName field can be set to any of the pre-defined formats but the AddressBook will still correctly show First Last Name if that was selected option).

However, to correct the problem resulting from the sync (or some other non Outlook import) process, each contact affected must be "re-updated" on an item by item basis as this is not a universal AddressBook issue. Therefore, simply running either the <FullName> or <FileAs> standardization function in <eval> mode will not resolve all the affected contacts (only those contact items included in the <eval> update group will be corrected - 10 items). A fully registered copy of CG Toolkit is required for <ALL> contacts to be corrected. The standardization function would also have to be run after every sync to correct the affected contact items so that those are displayed corrected in the AddressBook view.