How to prevent contact activities info from showing in a vCard

[valthegal]

I'm wondering, if I create a vCard from a contact in Outlook, when the
receiver opens the vCard, does it also contain/show the info included on the
Activities and Details tabs associated with that contact? If it does, how do
you create a vCard that doesn't share all the email and journal entries
associated with that contact?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can stop being paranoid about this. No one is monitoring the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. It contains no information about activities.

The Activities page builds a list *on the fly* of items related to the current contact. It builds that list from the *current user's* Outlook folders. If someone has activities related to you, they'll see them when they open the vCard you sent, because Outlook creates one of its own contacts from the vCard. If you open that vCard yourself, Outlook creates a contact with your information on it, and that contact's Activities page will show all the activities in your folders involving you.

If you still don't believe me, save the vCard to your hard drive and open it in Notepad.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[valthegal]

Thank you so much! Seemed silly to ask, but I really didn't know where else
to find an answer. Again, thanks.

 

[Melissa]

My emails contain all my activities. The company owner wants me to delete
the vCard from my emails, but I can't figure out how, other than doing it
manually....So, maybe I need to do something to keep the activities from
appearing, or perhaps you can tell me how to keep the vCard from attaching?

 

[Brian Tillman]

My emails contain all my activities. The company owner wants me to
delete the vCard from my emails, but I can't figure out how, other
than doing it manually....So, maybe I need to do something to keep
the activities from appearing, or perhaps you can tell me how to keep
the vCard from attaching?

The recipients of your messages won't see your activities.

 

[Melissa]

Thanks for the reply Brian. I tested out the previous information and
emailed my coworker and had her pull up my card....All of the activities were
there. She and I both work in different lines of business, so my activities
would not relate to her. I understood that the only activities that are
visible to the sendee are those that pertain to them.

No one else in my office has a vCard attachment and I don't know what I did
to create it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for the reply Brian. I tested out the previous information and
emailed my coworker and had her pull up my card....All of the
activities were there. She and I both work in different lines of
business, so my activities would not relate to her. I understood
that the only activities that are visible to the sendee are those
that pertain to them.

A vCard is just a text file. Save it to disk and open it with Notepad.
You'll see it doesn't contain the activities.