Adding Contacts from the Outlook Address Book to your Phone
DISCLAIMER: IT does not provide assistance with
the following solution. This is a self-help article you can follow to manually
add Domino contacts to your mobile phone yourself.
DISCLAIMER: If someone new is hired or an
employee's contact information changes, your phone will not automatically
update with this information. You will need to manually update or add these
contacts to pull any changes.
DISCLAIMER: This solution will not work in New Outlook.
Make sure Sync/Save Contacts is on in the
Outlook Mobile app:
For iPhone:
1. Open the Outlook app
on your iPhone.
2. Click the Photo in
the top left, then click the "gear" icon.
3. Under Mail Accounts,
select Office 365.
4. Check if Save
Contacts is on and if it's not, toggle it on.
For Android:
1. Open the Outlook app
on your Android.
2. Click the 3 lines in
the top left, the click the "gear" icon.
3. Under General,
select Contacts.
4. Check if Sync
Contacts is on and if it's not, toggle it on.
The solution below
is the recommended way to add Domino contacts to your phone.
Adding contacts individually:
1. Open the Outlook
Address Book on your computer.
2. Make sure you are
searching the Global Address List.
3. Use the search box
to search for the name of the employee you'd like to add to your contacts.
4. Right click on their
name, and choose "Add to Contacts"
5. Click Save and Close
on the Contact window that opens
6. As
long as Sync Contacts is enabled in your Outlook mobile app, you should see the
employee pop up in your contacts on your phone after a short delay.
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DISCLAIMER: The
solution below is not recommended.
This
solution is only for people who want to add all local Domino contacts to their
phone contact list.
WARNING: This solution will cause your Outlook to become unresponsive for upwards of 30 minutes while the contacts are added.
This solution will also add Shared Mailboxes and other unnecessary contacts to your phone.
IT will
not assist with removing excess contacts if you choose to do this.
Check what "Company" your location
is part of:
Domino
locations/countries have their own "Company" associated to their
contacts in Outlook.
(e.g. Domino North
America, Domino UK, etc.)
1. Open the Outlook
Address Book on your computer.
2. Make sure you are
searching the Global Address List.
3. Type your name in
the search box and look to see what your Company is.
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Adding all of local Domino contacts at once:
1. Open the Outlook
Address Book on your computer.
2. Make sure you are
searching the Global Address List.
3. Clear the search box
if it's not already blank.
4. Click Advanced Find.
5. In the Company box,
type the company name your location is associated with and click Ok.
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6. This will pull up
all Domino contacts associated with your "company" (including Shared
Mailboxes).
7. Select all contacts
by clicking the top contact, scrolling to the bottom, and shift clicking the
bottom contact.
8. With all contacts
selected, right click on one and choose "Add to Contacts" to add all
of them at once.
Doing this will
cause your Outlook to freeze. It will not unfreeze until all contacts are added
which can take a long time.
Once this finishes,
these contacts should eventually show up in your contact list on your phone. It
can take upwards of an hour to sync all these contacts to your phone.