Person Names Smart Tag should allow you to prefer exchange server

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Randal Hoffman - 28 Mar 2006 18:26 GMT

Currently I find the "Enable the Person Names Smart Tag" to be a really
annoying feature, as I work in an office and this feature will prefer email
addresses stored in MSN Messenger as opposed to what's set up on the exchange
server. I've run into a few cases where I know a person with the same name
as someone I work with, and this "Smart Tag" ends up sending my emails to my
personal contact as opposed to the work contact it was supposed to reach.
Outlook needs a feature where you can have it prefer to send to contacts from
the exchange server as opposed to plucking addresses from other applications.

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William [MVP] - 29 Mar 2006 09:13 GMT

I also find it to be a really annoying 'feature'. I turn it off. Life is
better that way.
Tools --> Options --> Other --> Person Names
Deselect.

(you probably already know that, but for the benefit of other readers that
may share that view.)

> Currently I find the "Enable the Person Names Smart Tag" to be a really
> annoying feature, as I work in an office and this feature will prefer
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> the exchange server as opposed to plucking addresses from other
> applications.

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Randal Hoffman - 29 Mar 2006 16:19 GMT

I am also finding now that even though this feature is turned off,
occasionally the auto-complete feature for suggesting names will still take
information from the contact list as opposed to the exchange server. There
has to be a better way....

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Brian Tillman - 29 Mar 2006 20:08 GMT

> I am also finding now that even though this feature is turned off,
> occasionally the auto-complete feature for suggesting names will
> still take information from the contact list as opposed to the
> exchange server. There has to be a better way....

In no way does autocompletion ever take information from anywhere other than
the autocompletion list. Ever.

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William Lefkovics [MVP] - 29 Mar 2006 23:13 GMT

The autocomplete pulls from past entries stored in a .nk2 file locally.

There are 3rd party utilities to view and edit the content of those files.
(www.ingressor.com)

>I am also finding now that even though this feature is turned off,
> occasionally the auto-complete feature for suggesting names will still
> take
> information from the contact list as opposed to the exchange server.
> There
> has to be a better way....

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