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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2008V-card information
How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? 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.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? Sue Thanks for your response. In fact, I sent a v-card to myself and undert he Actvities tab is a list of hundreds of my activities. Unfortunately I distributed this to many of my clients. Doubtless noone would have noticed, but the vcard also somehow added my birthday to everyone's calendar at my client's office and they were all wondering how that happened. One of them started going through the tabs and they realized they had my activities as well. this is not paranoia, this happened, and I would like to know how to turn it off. Thanks John > 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. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? Read my message again, especially the second and third paragraphs. A vCard contains no such activity data. What users were seeing was ****THEIR OWN DATA***** related to you, e.g. email messages exchanged with you. Outlook has a built-in feature to add birthdays of contacts to the Calendar folder. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? Sue Thanks for your response. I will verify the Activities info. How can I prevent the birthday info from being sent > Read my message again, especially the second and third paragraphs. A vCard contains no such activity data. What users were seeing was ****THEIR OWN DATA***** related to you, e.g. email messages exchanged with you. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >> > >> > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? Delete the birthday from your contact record before you save the vCard. Or open the .vcf file in Notepad and delete it there. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue > Thanks for your response. I will verify the Activities info. How can I [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> >> >> >> > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? Sue: I appreciate seeing your response to this guy but I have to say it would be helpful for you guys to put some warning about this in the help section. I had the same panic response when thinking about attaching a VCARD to my company website. I spent 2 hours today looking for some explanation for what was happening or a way to delete the activities tab or lock out the link. If you'd just let people know what that Activities tab was for and how it worked, it would save a lot of time for many users. > 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. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003? MVPs are not in control of anything Microsoft does inclduing what's in the Help files. We are volunteers helping you try to get the most from their software. We do make suggestions but we do not work for Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/mvp explains who we are. Regards Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook Trainer and Consultant www.pragmatix.com.au . > Sue: I appreciate seeing your response to this guy but I have to say it > would [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> > How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook >> > 2003? |
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