I started to research on this requirement when one of my customer wanted to publish their Exchange Extension Attribute in the Skype for Business Contact Card. Many organizations use Exchange Extension Attributes to update their internal information like Employee ID, Cost Center etc. These are not default fields that is available in Skype for Business Contact Card. I know your first thought would be why can’t we use the ABSConfig tool for this. We will not be able to use ABSConfig tool to implement this change because ABSConfig is used to map Lync contact Fields with the AD attributes or to specify the AD attribute to be included or excluded in the Address Book files.

In this blog we are going to see how we can tweak the registry to achieve this.

First, Let’s see how does a fully populated contact card looks like:

We have 16 Fields in a Contact Card that can be modified:

Table-1:

With Skype for Business and Outlook installed, we can customize the contact card via Registries. SfB shares contact card with MS Office. We can use the below registries to change the Labels (1-16) as shown in above screenshot and Values as per Table-2

Note: This will work only within the Internal Network since it requires AD access and Outlook Installed

Registry Information:

Backup your Registry before making any changes.

Skype for Business 2015:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\ContactCard]

Skype for Business 2016:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ContactCard]

*Replace the # with an integer between 1 and 16, based on the values that are listed in Table 1.

Table-2:

Let us walk through some scenarios:

The original Contact Card:

Scenario-1:

The scenario we want to implement is to add “Alias” and “Team” to our contact card. To do that we will replace the default fields as below:

To do this, add below registries:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\contactcard]

"turnoncontacttablabelreplace4"="Alias"

"turnoncontacttabmapireplace4"=dword: 3a00001f

"turnoncontacttabadreplace4"=" mailNickname"

"turnoncontacttablabelreplace16"="Team"

"turnoncontacttabmapireplace16"=dword: 802D001F

"turnoncontacttabadreplace16"="extensionAttribute1"

Contact Card after scenario-1 Changes:

Scenario-2

Now let’s implement a scenario to add “Assistant” field to our Contact Card. To do this we will replace the fields as shown below:

To do this, add below registries:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\contactcard]

"turnoncontacttablabelreplace4"="Assistant"

"turnoncontacttabmapireplace4"=dword: 3a30001f

"turnoncontacttabadreplace4"="msExchAssistantName"

Contact Card after Scenario-2 Changes:

Hope this was helpful!

Dilip Kumar P

Support Escalation Engineer – Microsoft