CiraSync Names Tim Fessenden Chief Executive Officer Veteran SaaS executive brings more than 25 years of experience and leadership roles at Vault Verify, Propertybase, and Yottaa Austin, Texas, October 7, 2026 — CiraSync, a leading provider of automated contact and...
CiraSync Named a 2026 Industry Icon in Enterprise Technology & SaaS Recognition Highlights CiraSync’s Microsoft 365 Expertise, 2026 Product Expansion, and Growing Role in Frontline, Regulated, and Mission-Critical Contact Sync Austin, Texas, September 28,...
TL;DR: Before you can use a shared mailbox, your Microsoft 365 administrator must create it and give you the required permissions. In classic Outlook for Windows, Full Access assigned directly to an individual can use automapping to add the mailbox automatically....
You add an event on your laptop, glance at your phone an hour later, and it isn’t there. Or a coworker’s number lives in Outlook but never shows up when they call your cell. Sometimes it’s the reverse: everything worked fine for months, then one...
CiraSync Publishes New Buy vs. Build Guide, Helping IT Leaders Weigh the True Cost of Home-Grown Microsoft 365 Contact and Calendar Sync New Resource Breaks Down Build Cost, Ongoing Maintenance, Reliability, and Security Tradeoffs as Microsoft Retires Exchange Web...
Microsoft Copilot, formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot, brings generative AI into the Microsoft 365 applications where many organizations already work every day, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. In Outlook, that means Copilot can do considerably...
The Zapier Workaround People Should Stop Using: Contact & Calendar Sync via Zaps, and Why It Fails Zapier is excellent at what it was designed to do. A new lead arrives. Create a CRM record. A form is submitted. Send a Slack notification. A calendar event is...
Executive Summary Our client is a $100B+ alternative investment firm with deal teams, operations staff, and support functions spread across two dozen global offices. When the firm’s mobile contact directories fell out of sync with reality, and later, when a...
CiraSync Named No. 2076 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 List, the Most Prestigious Ranking of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies CiraSync Recognized for Three-Year Revenue Growth, Earning a Place Among the Nation’s Most Successful Independent Businesses Austin,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync On-Prem Adds CardDAV Support to Simplify Mobile Contact Delivery for IT Teams New Standards-Based Protocol Eliminates Reliance on Outlook Mobile App and Exchange ActiveSync Workarounds Austin, Texas — July 15, 2026 — CiraSync, a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync Brings Real-Time Contact Sync to Government Emergency Response Teams Automated Microsoft 365 Directory Sync Eliminates Outdated Contacts and Reduces Response Times for Government Agencies and Public Safety Teams Austin, Texas —...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync Addresses Contact Governance and Compliance Challenges for Financial Services Organizations Automated Microsoft 365 Contact Sync Reduces Compliance Risk and IT Overhead for Banks, Wealth Managers, and Insurance Firms Austin, Texas —...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync Expands CardDAV-Based Contact Sync for Android Devices One Workflow, Every Device: Corporate Contacts Delivered Directly to Managed iOS and Android Smartphones Austin, Texas — June 15, 2026 — CiraSync, a leading provider of automated...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync Expands Mobile Direct to Deliver CardDAV-Based Contact Sync Across Leading MDM Platforms New Support for Microsoft Intune and Workspace ONE Gives IT Administrators a Secure, App-Free Path to Pushing Corporate Contacts Directly to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CiraSync Releases 2026 MSP Onboarding Benchmark Report, Revealing Manual Contact and Calendar Sync as a Primary Barrier to MSP Growth New Research and Supporting Insights Confirm That Automation Is No Longer Optional for Microsoft 365 Service...
Introduction When you manage 10, 25, or 100+ Microsoft 365 client tenants, every calendar request becomes harder to standardize. One client wants shared calendars pushed to mobile devices. Another needs public folder calendars available to field teams. Another wants...
Executive Summary The 2026 MSP Onboarding Benchmark is based on a survey of MSP professionals conducted in Q1 2026, combined with aggregated platform data from CiraSync deployments across Microsoft 365 tenants. The research examines how MSPs handle contact and...
The Outlook Global Address List is a company-wide contact directory. IT admins should keep it accurate, clean, and secure by regularly updating it, removing duplicates, controlling access, and communicating changes to employees. Using consistent naming, proper...
For organizations and individuals who rely on both iCloud and Exchange Server public folders, achieving seamless synchronization between these platforms can simplify scheduling and improve coordination. This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to set up a...
If your distribution lists are not visible in the Global Address List in Outlook or Microsoft 365, it can disrupt communication. This guide walks you through nine practical fixes to restore visibility, including checking settings, refreshing caches, and verifying sync...
It can be frustrating when new users or contacts do not appear in your Global Address List, or Outlook seems out of date. This often happens due to permissions, visibility settings, offline caching, or directory sync delays. This guide explains why some...
The Global Address List (GAL) is a company wide directory automatically maintained by your IT team that contains all internal email accounts and resources. Outlook Contacts are your personal contacts that you create...
Active Directory sits behind a huge amount of day-to-day work in IT. If you manage users, laptops, file shares, permissions, or Windows policies, you bump into AD constantly. This guide walks you through what Active Directory is, how it works, and what the core...
CiraSync On-Prem uses MongoDB as its backend database to store configuration data, logs, and synchronization records. A recently identified security vulnerability affecting MongoDB version 6.0.5 requires customers to update to the supported version 8.2.3. If you are...
If you support iPhones in your organization, contact access becomes an issue faster than you expect. Employee details live in Active Directory, yet they rarely appear where people actually need them. Users search Outlook, save contacts by hand, and end up with...
If you have Android users in your organization, you have probably felt this already. Contacts live in Active Directory, but they never quite reach people’s phones. Users save numbers manually. Contacts go out of date. IT keeps fixing the same issue. Trying to sync...
When your Outlook calendar not syncing problem hits, it’s never just annoying. You miss meetings, double-book yourself, and then you start wondering which calendar is even real. The tricky part is that sync can break in a few different places: Outlook itself, your...
Government and public agencies deal with constant staff movement, shared responsibilities, and strict communication requirements. Yet contact management often relies on outdated processes that create confusion and risk. Numbers change, roles shift, and devices stay...
Construction teams move fast, and contact management rarely keeps up. Phone numbers live in texts, emails, spreadsheets, or someone’s personal phone, and no one is fully sure what’s current. That might sound minor until a call goes unanswered or the wrong person gets...
Contact and calendar sync rarely gets attention until it starts causing problems. That’s why comparisons like CiraSync vs. third-party sync tools matter to IT teams. On paper, many tools promise the same outcome. In practice, the differences show up in control,...
If you work in a nonprofit, contact chaos probably feels familiar. People join and leave often, roles shift, and phones rarely match the directory. This article breaks down why GAL sync becomes painful for nonprofits, how it actually works in a nonprofit environment,...
In schools, calendars run everything. Classes, meetings, events, and coverage all depend on them. Yet shared calendars often break down, especially on mobile devices. Updates get missed, schedules drift, and admins step in to fix it. This is where CiraSync helps...
In healthcare, communication breaks faster than most teams expect. A missing contact, an outdated role, or the wrong number can slow care and create risk. The Global Address List sits at the center of this. When it isn’t synced properly, small issues turn into daily...
Mobile Direct enables IT administrators to push contacts directly to iOS devices using the CardDAV protocol and Microsoft Intune, without requiring any third-party phone apps. This approach ensures managed contacts and compliance with MDM...
Keeping Outlook contacts and calendars synced across every smartphone in a company sounds simple, but anyone who has tried it knows it isn’t. Outlook wasn’t built to push the Global Address List or shared calendars to mobile devices, so teams end up relying on Manual...
IT teams often want to know how CiraSync handles Microsoft 365 data, especially when it’s syncing contacts and calendars to mobile users. This guide breaks down what CiraSync accesses, how it stays secure inside the Microsoft Cloud, and the compliance standards it...
8 Best Practices for Contact Sync in Construction Companies! Construction projects move fast, and communication usually breaks the moment contact lists fall out of date. Crews switch sites, subcontractors change numbers, and suddenly no one knows who to call. ...
If you’ve ever tried managing contacts or shared calendars across dozens or even thousands of employee phones, you already know how messy it gets. Outlook stays clean. Smartphones never do. That’s the gap CiraSync fills. This CiraSync FAQ pulls together the most...
Shared calendars only work when everyone sees the same updates. But Microsoft 365 does not always push those changes to mobile devices. That creates confusion and missed events. CiraSync fixes this by syncing shared calendars directly to every phone. You choose a...
If your team uses Microsoft 365, you’ve probably dealt with the little annoyances that pile up over time. Outdated contacts on phones. Missed appointments because a shared calendar didn’t update. Caller ID showing random numbers you don’t recognize. CiraSync solves...