Linking phone to PC creates duplicate contacts

So I deleted all my contacts from the Outlook Folder in contacts called "contacts synced by Link to Windows" Upgraded the App on my Windows Computer and now I'm waiting for the contacts to re-sync. Does anyone know how long this takes? The Link app on Windows only shows phone numbers now. I also went into the Link App on my phone and disabled sync on contacts and re-enabled it and so far nothing.

Just figured this out after seeing your post. I've got 10K in here and I don't have 10K in my Outlook Contacts - This is indeed a BUG!

Interesting twist on this problem. The duplicates ONLY show in the Search function! All of my contact lists (S22 Ultra, Windows 10, Outlook.com) are clean of any duplicates.

How do I clean up the Search function?

PS. I didn't know where to post this to tie it to the original Link to Windows bug.

Great help, thanks. I deleted the mobile devices and the duplicates all went away. Thank you very much for your help!!!

On further review, I see the duplicates, except for a few, went away in Outlook.com but on the New Outlook for Windows app, they did not go away. All duplicates still remain so I have about 3 to 4 contacts for every single one that I should have. Unfortunately, it appears the only way to remove them is 10 at a time which will take hours. I don't get how they can go away in Outlook.com website but not in Outlook for Windows. This is supposed to synchronize.

Further, in outlook.com I was able to delete the contacts categories that created the duplicates, but I cannot remove them from Outlook for Windows.

My same experience. Spent 6 hours with 3 technicians at Microsoft and Outlook. The first one's fix made it worse.

Long story short. The contacts must be romed at the main Outlook servers. If not deleted there, then even if you manually delete them all on your device ... it populates there.

This is a global issue and the Outlook people at Microsoft know it.