O'look 03, email with vCard attachment but without Activities inf

[Keith McDonald]

Hi - I have Outlook 2003 and want to send an email with a vCard attachment.

I can do this easily using the menu picks. (click through to Contact
Menu>Actions>Forward as vCard)

BUT the vCard created by this includes data I do not want to share,
specifically lots of Calendar entries from the 'Activities' tab of the
Contacts entry. These items in the Activities tab are from my Outlook
Calendar (past and future) and were automatically populated when I created a
contact for my own email address.

 

[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. REPEATING: 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

 

[Keith McDonald]

Sue

Thanks for your help - not paranoia, just sensible caution.

Kind regards

Keith McDonald