Comments on: How to disable Suggested Contacts in Outlook 2010

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:51:14 +0000

Removing it from OWA saved the day. I love Office 2010 but, that was really annoying.

Thanks all!!

By: ron

ron — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:56:22 +0000

I need anyone’s help.
I just bought the iphone 4s and when I installed everything (itunes…etc.) it PULLED thousands of contacts from OUTLOOK 2007 into my iPHone.

Now I have thousands of contacts in my new iphone 4s. I do NOT want all of these contacts in my new iPhone.

Any suggestions?

BTW, I am NOT using Outlook 2010……it pulled it from Outlook 2007.

richker@gmail.com

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:20:40 +0000

Thank you for sharing! Microsoft help linked me to your post.

By: Bora

Bora — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:16:29 +0000

Alex (25) you are a life saver!! Do not waste time to delete suggested contacts from Outlook itself.

By: Redman55

Redman55 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:51:16 +0000

THANK YOU!! I spent a while trying to figure this out

By: Joakim

Joakim — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:06:09 +0000

Don´t disable Suggested Contacts – its a great tool!

Instead disable Contacts sync in your Exchange Account on your iPhone and sync your contacts locally via iTunes. How often do you need to live(push) sync your contacts anyway.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:56:01 +0000

Thanks, I recently setup corporate sync on my android phone and I was having the same problem and since at my job I live by both the phone and my email, the suggested contacts was creating more entries in my contact list then I could really deal with, with all kinds of odd names, my contact list is already bloated enouph since it used the motoblur stuff and it pulls in contact not only that I make but from corporate sync, fact book, twitter, I have enough trouble trying to find the “dups” and linking them so they only appear once in the contact list, did not want to deal with the suggested contacts.

By: Dave Mac

Dave Mac — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:32:25 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I knew where these were coming from but couldn’t figure how to switch it off !

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:07:52 +0000

In order to stop an iPhone from syncing the Suggested Contacts folder, you have to configure Outlook not to show the Suggested Contacts folder as an actual address book. Then the sync software won’t see it as a syncable address book and shouldn’t sync it. In Outlook 2010:

1. Right-click Suggested Contacts and choose Properties
2. Click the Outlook Address Book tab
3. Clear the checkbox for “Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book”.

If the Suggested Contacts group doesn’t disappear from your iPhone, go into Settings and turn off contact syncing, then turn it back on again.

By: Gwynne

Gwynne — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:38:10 +0000

Like “ultrarys” (in post 26) I want to delete the suggested contacts folders without the use of OWA as I am not using Microsoft Exchange either.

Can anyone help or tell me how I can point Outlook at just one contacts folder?

(I have no contacts in my suggested contacts folders, but I have several of them and all kinds of issues when trying to find contacts to insert in a mail – even an issue where Outlook secretly changes the email address in its send process!).