Microsoft Office made Easy - sharing contacts using Office Live

[ericg0ld]

This approach worked great until MS killed the Office Live beta, and replaced it with SkyDrive. How are you sharing contacts now?

[c130bulldawg]

@ericg0ld Good point. I need to revisit contact sharing. How do you share your contacts?

[ericg0ld]

@c130bulldawg I haven't yet come up with a good approach. I use Airset for shared calendaring in my small company, and could use their contact sharing function, but it will force me to change the way I store contacts, and I am resisting that. I really liked the fact the Office Live worked within Outlook, and basically gave me an Exchange Server function, without Exchange Server. The fact that it was free was a real bonus, but I might even be willing to pay as much as $10/year for this.

[aligashNY]

interesting, but I have an issue and don't know if you can help. I have a contact list on GMail and would like to have it real time sync with my Exchange hosting account. The calendar sync by google is a greate tool but they don't offer a contact tool as such. do you have any ideas?

[sandyleecruz123]

does this method work syncing both ways? for instance can you add a contact in outlook and it show up in windows live? is there a way to sync calendars back and forth?

[c130bulldawg]

@sandyleecruz123 Yes. The syncing works both ways for me. I haven't tried the calendars yet.