Phone Number shown with Presence information

[GHawkins]

I'm using Office 2007 SP1. If you open an email message from your Inbox, for
example, and right click on a user's name, various information is displayed
(presence, when the user is available based on calendar information, etc.). I
have no idea what this area is called, but I know some of it is Presence
Information - so you can see if the person in your organization/IM list is
currently available.

When you right click on a name, it also shows a phone number so you can call
this person. I believe this information is pulled from Active Directory.
Right now, it appears to be pulling the "Office" field information from AD.
However, we store our phone number information in the "Phone Number" field.
Does anyone know how to change what number Outlook displays there, or if it
is even possible to do that? I hope our only solution isn't to move this
information into the "Office" field.

I'm having a hard time researching because I don't know what the technical
term for this field is. Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Are you using the Office Communicator?
I don't know if that allows you to change which information it displays
there.

If you indeed need to change that field, it is not that hard to update that
information. You can loop through all the accounts in a certain OU, retrieve
the information and store it in a variable and then set that variable to the
other telephone field and set the original to an empty string.

To get you started;
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/users/modify/usmdvb32.mspx?mfr=true