Cannot enable sync contacts in Outlook app within Work Profile

I’ve come across an issue where the customer could not enable contact sync in the Outlook app inside a work profile.

When a used would go into Outlook app and hit “Sync Contacts” the contact sync the switch would turn on and then instantly turn off.

This was due to a permission issue.

Even though the customer had a global “Auto grant” permission setup via a configuration profile this was not sufficient.

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Additional contacts permissions had to be added
This is done from Client Apps → App configuration policies

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