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Kent - 24 Apr 2006 00:42 GMT

Using Outlook 2003 SP2, I open a contact and choose Export to vCard file and
the vCard created has a corrupted Internet Free/Busy address.

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Apr 2006 10:01 GMT

What do you mean by 'corrupted'? Is it not the same one that's in the
contact record itself?

> Using Outlook 2003 SP2, I open a contact and choose Export to vCard file
> and
> the vCard created has a corrupted Internet Free/Busy address.

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Kent - 24 Apr 2006 11:49 GMT

The contact record's Internet Free/Busy field contained
"http://www.aaaaaa.com/FreeBusy/Kaaaaa.vfb" ('aaaaaa' to hide PII) and the
vCard file's Internet Free/Busy field contained exactly
"http://????????????????????best Hill, IL 60435" which seems to be a portion
of the home address portion of the record.

> What do you mean by 'corrupted'? Is it not the same one that's in the
> contact record itself?
>
> > Using Outlook 2003 SP2, I open a contact and choose Export to vCard file
> > and
> > the vCard created has a corrupted Internet Free/Busy address.

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Apr 2006 12:46 GMT

Does that happen for all contacts? I'm curious if it would happen for a new
contact also

> The contact record's Internet Free/Busy field contained
> "http://www.aaaaaa.com/FreeBusy/Kaaaaa.vfb" ('aaaaaa' to hide PII) and the
> vCard file's Internet Free/Busy field contained exactly
> "http://????????????????????best Hill, IL 60435" which seems to be a
> portion
> of the home address portion of the record.

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Kent - 24 Apr 2006 15:04 GMT

Just created a fresh contact "New Contact" with title "Limited Data" and an
Internet Free/Busy of "http://www.aaaaaa.com/FreeBusy/Kaaaaa.vfb" that turned
it into "http://????????????????????b/FreeBusy/Kaaaaa.vfb" in the vCard file.
Is it just me or does it do the same thing for you?

> Does that happen for all contacts? I'm curious if it would happen for a new
> contact also
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> > portion
> > of the home address portion of the record.

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Apr 2006 16:07 GMT

I got the same result:
FBURL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:????????????????????b?=03?=03?=03?=0B?=1F?A?=03?A?A?=03?A?=03=0DZD=01
?=F7

By any chance are you using the IE7 beta? I am on this machine so I wonder
if that's causing trouble.

> Just created a fresh contact "New Contact" with title "Limited Data" and
> an
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> file.
> Is it just me or does it do the same thing for you?

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Kent - 24 Apr 2006 21:54 GMT

I am running 6 sp 2 and allow auto updates. "????????b" seems to be a common
thread though.

> I got the same result:
> FBURL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:????????????????????b?=03?=03?=03?=0B?=1F?A?=03?A?A?=03?A?=03=0DZD=01
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> > file.
> > Is it just me or does it do the same thing for you?

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