vcard info tabs- outlook

[Peter Kofman]

When I send someone a vcard and they click activities, is my information
ebing sent to them from my computer of is the vcard being populated with data
from the computer I sent the card, as it relates to my name.

i.e ,, I send someone a vcard, if you click on the activity tab, they see a
bunch of info in the list,, where does this info come from ,

I dont want to send anyone personal info other than the basic vcard contact
data,

Please respond to (e-mail address removed) if you have any thoughts on this. thank
you

 

[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

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You'll only see that on your machine. The data isn't in the vCard file. To
prove it to yourself, save the vCard to your harddrive and open the VCF file
in NotePad since it's only a text file (in a particular format).