Flagging Dynamics AX contacts for synchronization

You probably don't want all of the contacts from Dynamics AX to be moved over to Outlook, probably just the contacts that you are working with. Dynamics AX gives you the option to flag the contacts that you want to synchronize directly from the contact management screens. In this recipe we will show you how you can do this.

How to do it...

To flag your Dynamics AX contacts for synchronization to Outlook, follow these steps:

1. From the Sales and Marketing module, open up the My contacts list page from the Contacts folder in the Common group.

2. Select the contacts that you would like to synchronize:

   

3. Click on the Add to Microsoft Outlook contacts button in the Include group of the Contact ribbon bar tab. You should get a dialog box showing how many new contacts have been flagged for synchronization: