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No Contact sync on several Desk phones
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1. Microsoft designed the Teams app, and the Yealink phone is a phone device running Teams app.
2. The outlook contact sync is only in read-only mode, which means you can't add others except your internal communicators to contacts/speed dial.
3. Please contact Microsoft for help, and see if they got a plan to develop the add outlook contact to speed dial feature.
And it would be appreciated you can provide the Micorosoft Ticket number, so if any progress we can help with, we'll get our PM to talk about their PM.
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This seems to be a big problem right? We have 10 Yealink phones and none of them have our Outlook contacts showing up... help?
- ddkinfotech2435Oct 11, 2022Copper Contributor
Does anyone have any update on this? We have the Yealink VP59 phones with same issue - cannot sync contacts and also you cannot search for any external contacts. We have opened ticket with Microsoft, reached out to Yealink also.
We received exact same reply from Yealink that you received. Seems like their responses to bugs with Teams is templated and they send the same response to everyone blaming Teams. What I don't understand is that how is it that it works on certain phones and not others.
- bmcclainJan 19, 2023Copper Contributor
- Ned_ONeillDec 28, 2023Copper Contributor
bmcclain Did you ever figure this out ?
I have a yealink MP58 and I have the same problem.
- ddkinfotech2435Aug 29, 2022Copper Contributor
Have you found a solution for this? We have the same problem on all of our VP59 phones. Yealink says it is Microsoft. We opened a ticket with Microsoft and it has been a month and they are still trying to look at the issue. No resolution from them.
- alexcpcAug 29, 2022Copper Contributor
ddkinfotech2435 One of the firmware updates made most (not all) Outlook contacts sync TO phones since this post.
However I agree this is a Microsoft problem. For example, in the teams desktop app I can usually only see one contact number and it's most often the Mobile phone if I have both an Work and mobile phone saved on the contact. This is so poorly done.
We are a small firm and cannot chase down solutions so are just living with the poor contact sync functionality.