How do I synchronize contacts from one source for all employees?

Solution A (for few employees): push principle

Common

This can be easily implemented with just a single sync.blue® account. Create initially a sync.blue® connection for the first employee.

Then either manually create a new connection for each employee or automatically via the share icon of a connection.

The contacts are thus "pushed" into the respective employee account.

Via Microsoft 365 / Exchange

If you want to synchronize the same source with the Exchange contacts of several colleagues, "Microsoft 365 - Shared Mailbox" can also be selected as the target and the respective e-mail address of the employee can be stored in the "Advanced Settings" of the sync connection. This means that colleagues do not have to authenticate themselves personally in the sync.blue® dashboard. Of course, the prerequisite is read/write rights for the authorized Microsoft 365 Exchange user.

Solution B (for many employees): pull principle

Since it would be cumbersome for large organizations to manually create a connection per employee to create, we recommend a different approach here: with only one sync.blue® connection, the contacts are being synced from any source into one single destination, which is then made available  for all employees:

Via Microsoft 365 / Exchange

Microsoft Exchange has various options for making contacts available to multiple employees in a central location:

• Exchange Public Folder
• Shared mailbox (contacts of a specific user)

Exchange can be configured by the administrator in such a way that certain (or even all) Exchange users in the company can access the shared contacts.

Via CardDAV

Contact source (e.g. Microsoft GAL) --> CardDAV (hosted by sync.blue®, third-party or on-premises with e.g. Radicale or Baïkal) --(Mobile Device Management)--> Employee smartphones (e.g. Apple iPhone / Google Android)

With the help of a mobile device management solution (like Microsoft Intune), this CardDAV account can be used by anyone employees are automatically provisioned on the smartphones.