Can I sync my outlook contacts to my new lumia 635?

[WPCentral Question]

As above (outlook is 2010)

 

[xandros9]

Not directly.
You can however if you use an intermediary cloud service like outlook.com or something enterprise-y

 

[gpobernardo]

If you use your Outlook email account as your primary Microsoft email account in your phone, you should be able to sync your contacts, including your calendar.*

If your Outlook email account is not the same as Microsoft email account in your phone, you may set-up a new email account under Settings > email+accounts > add an account** and then later choose to sync your contacts after configuring your new account. However, syncing contacts (and calendar events) is not applicable to all email servers (e.g. Yahoo! Mail seems to currently not support this with Windows Phones). In my experience, however, only the contacts associated with or linked to my Microsoft email account is synced to my phone.

*- Provided your Outlook 2010 email account is the same with your outlook.com email account or any of its "aliases" (if you created any). The idea is to export your Outlook 2010 contacts to your Microsoft email account, and then use the Microsoft email account as your primary email account in your phone.
**- Alternatively, you can go to People Hub > ... > Settings > Add Contacts > add an account.