Kies and syncing with MS Outlook contacts - "Categories" vs. "Groups"

I personally hate Kies! it always locks up my laptop, so i don't use it at all.  I have my SGS sync OTA with my company outlook email, contacts and calendar.  Works very well, much better now that my phone is updated to 2.2 (factory after phone repaired last week sheesh!) On my outlook contacts i choose the "By Category" tab and edit my contacts as per the category i want, when done, i "send/receive" ( hit F9 key) to send to server, then on phone i go to menu/settings/accounts and sync/my corporate account(i have contacts&calendar both "checked"/ menu "sync now" should come up. Mine only takes a few minutes and voila! everything sync'd and updated. (just redid all 300 contacts on mine on the weekend) If you have that many contacts, it could take a little while for everything to sync be patient.  This way will sync everything to your corporate account, not the phone itself, so when you go to your "contacts" on your phone and then go to "groups" scroll down to Corporate account and your "categories" that you input in Outlook should be there! Mine is working really well.  when i make a change on my phone, sync it, F9 in outlook, boom its there! and visa versa! Hope this helps! 

I have the same problem, that my 2932 contact, all the categories form outlook is missing.
To fix it : 1. Deletted first all contact in device, 2. Export the contact from outlook to CSV file., 3. Import account to webmail (your account gmail). 4. Syncronize your device to webmail.

Until now, i didn't fine to syncronize since upgrade to the lates KIES and FirmWare. There is no problem anymore with connecting (Which at first allways signed "Connecting......"), bu the contact still can not appear in kies even the syncronize was 100% succsess.

Oh.....my ....... my......., i think it's better use WP7 for hande syncronize data outlook.

Regards

lewis_ugil@yahoo.com

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