Now I can't edit contact and add new contact to outlook.com account on my Android phone.

I have a Nexus 5 with the latest KitKat update. I have set up Outlook.com app and also set up the Exchange server with the hotmail settings.  I can now sync contacts, calendar, and email, as well as folders. However I get 2 calendar events for every event I make. Minor problem and i am not going to waste time to find out why. Just happy it works. I am not using the built in android email app.

Hi there, I tried doing this, but I think I am missing a step.  Would you mind explaining again how you did this?  Is it two steps - installing the outlook.com app (configuring it one way) and creating an exchange account and configuring it another way?  A bit confused.

Thanks for your help!

Really big Thanks to User_333!!!  No thanks to MS.   I think it's absolutely ridiculous that MS inhibits...by design... two way updating of Contacts on the Outlook.com app.  After all, it is when you are out and about meeting people that you are most likely to want to add a contact!  To not have that ability is absolutely stupid.  Every time I have to spend an entire evening trying to figure out a bit of their software it makes me want to try out apple....it does NOT make me want to run out and buy a windows phone if that was the intent.  If you (MS) really are serious about maintaining your market share, this type of thing should be a no brainer seamless set up with full functionality.

It is only because I like the desktop version of Outlook that I am even on outlook.com since Google stopped supporting calendar and contact updates for Outlook last year. So, my setup on my android now looks like this...

• Gmail connection for Gmail
• Outlook exchange connection set to only update Contacts...Due to comments above, I've tested and verified that existing contacts that are edited on my phone are updating on outlook.com
• Outlook.com app connection is set to only update Calendars.... this supports multiple Calendars which every member of my family has and is great to combine. (There are some things MS does right, now if they could just get the implementation down).

Thanks to everyone out there scratching their heads at MS's "solutions" while trying to find ones that really work.  I'd be back to a rolodex without you.

Microsoft,

 I have been using Outlook app for a long time and still contacts are not editable, please enable 2 synch contacts, spend some time and let your specialists correct this issue please.

I think this is not the kind of support expected from customers, please do something