Notes in vCards issue (Exchange - internal vs external)

[EricKei]

I'm using Outlook 2003 v11.8169.8172 SP3 under Office Pro 2003 in a
corporate/Exchange environment. Running WinXP Pro SP2.

Is there any way to get the Notes field to forward when using the Forward as
vCard button (or just CTRL-F) to send a Contact to someone who is outside of
our network domain? FWDing by either of those methods internally works just
fine, but sending them elsewhere (read: to any address outside of our local
network, even if they use our same email domain name) leaves the Notes field
blank. We can export to vCard or RTF and send *that* (RMB > Send To > mail
recipient), and it
works -- the Notes show up even in vCards if we do that.

In other words:
- email to (e-mail address removed) (in our building): Notes field carries over
- email to (e-mail address removed) (not in our building): Notes field does not
carry over
- email to (e-mail address removed) (not in our building): Notes field
does not carry over

I've been asked to see if there's a way to do auto-include the notes on the
one-click version (ctrl-F) without going thru the extra steps or cluttering
up our folders with tons of vCard files, as we have the need to send these
out quite often.

Some posts I have seen here say that this was a bug back in SP1 that has
since been fixed, while a more recent one suggests that this is just how
Outlook "works", ie, that it is intentional. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Save the vCard to your hard drive and then insert it into a RTF message to send with complete notes.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, EricKei asked:

| I'm using Outlook 2003 v11.8169.8172 SP3 under Office Pro 2003 in a
| corporate/Exchange environment. Running WinXP Pro SP2.
|
| Is there any way to get the Notes field to forward when using the
| Forward as vCard button (or just CTRL-F) to send a Contact to someone
| who is outside of our network domain? FWDing by either of those
| methods internally works just fine, but sending them elsewhere (read:
| to any address outside of our local network, even if they use our
| same email domain name) leaves the Notes field blank. We can export
| to vCard or RTF and send *that* (RMB > Send To > mail recipient), and
| it
| works -- the Notes show up even in vCards if we do that.
|
| In other words:
| - email to (e-mail address removed) (in our building): Notes field carries
| over
| - email to (e-mail address removed) (not in our building): Notes field does
| not carry over
| - email to (e-mail address removed) (not in our building): Notes
| field does not carry over
|
| I've been asked to see if there's a way to do auto-include the notes
| on the one-click version (ctrl-F) without going thru the extra steps
| or cluttering up our folders with tons of vCard files, as we have the
| need to send these out quite often.
|
| Some posts I have seen here say that this was a bug back in SP1 that
| has since been fixed, while a more recent one suggests that this is
| just how Outlook "works", ie, that it is intentional. Can anyone help?
|
| Thanks!