how do you send Vcard without sending "Activities"

[Guest]

I was shocked when I send a vcard to a person and found out that it had all
of my activities including Email Task etc. attatched to it.

How can you send a vcard with only General contact info

 

[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. 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.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Sue! you were right.

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. 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
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

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. 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
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[whalenc]

Send Vcard Without Activities!!!

Thank you PC Review! When I sent my new vcard this AM, almost soiled my nappies when I saw the file size and the f**king list of TOTALLY UNRELATED ACTIVITIES BUILDING ON THE FLY in an email to a prospective client.

Once again, those thoughtful gnomes at MSFT have managed to waste half a hour of my time by pushing functionality in my face that I neither want nor need. Seriously, why is it that MSFT ASSUMES that we want all of these interoperability functions in Office? They not only make the product difficult to use, but create hideous security issues while they're at it! Amazing.

For the record, the VCARD does not send the activities to the recipient, but you'll need a strong constitution to push the send buttom while you look at all of that CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT DATA, INVOICES AND OTHER STUFF being happily asssembled by Outlook. Jesus, Mary & Joseph! I wish could spank Gates et all for this idiocy.

Chris Whalen