The Contact Card in Outlook 2010 does not change when you try to customize it by using Group Policy or the Office Customization Tool (OCT)

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Outlook 2010

Original KB number:   981022

Symptoms

When you use Group Policy or the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to customize the Contact Card in Microsoft Outlook 2010, the Contact Card remains unchanged.

For example, you try to replace the Department field on the contact card with another attribute from the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). After you deploy this change, the Contact Card remains unchanged. All default fields remain displayed on the Contact Card. The default Contact Card fields are shown in the following figure.

This problem occurs for all settings that you configure under the Office 2010\Contact Card\Contact Tab node in the settings tree. The following figure shows these settings in the Office Customization Tool.

A similar tree structure for these settings is also shown in the Group Policy Management Console.

Cause

This issue occurs because the Group Policy and OCT template files do not contain the correct registry settings to customize the Contact Card settings under the Contact Tab section.

Workaround

Important

This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, see How to back up and restore the registry in Windows.

To work around this problem, use the following registry information to customize which fields are displayed on the Contact Card.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\ContactCard

Note

The \Policies hive in the registry must be used.

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace#
Value: Any text that you want to replace the default text that is displayed in the Contact Card.

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace#
Value: The hexadecimal value that corresponds to the MAPI value of an attribute from AD DS. Please see Table 2 for allowed values.

Note

For these two registry values, use an integer between 1 and 8 for the placeholder #. Table 1 specifies the default item displayed on the Contact Card and the integer value to use in the registry if you want to replace this item with another attribute from AD DS.

Table 1: Contact Card default item line item integer values

Default Item	Integer value
Department	1
Office	2
Work	3
Mobile	4
Home	5
E-mail	6
Calendar	7
Location	8

Table 2: AD DS attributes and their corresponding MAPI values

AD DS Attribute	MAPI value	Property Name in the Address Book	Comment
legacyExchangeDN	3003001f	PR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
info	3004001f	PR_COMMENT
mail	39fe001f	PR_SMTP_ADDRESS
displayNamePrintable	39ff001f	PR_7BIT_DISPLAY_NAME
mailNickname	3a00001f	PR_ACCOUNT
givenName	3a06001f	PR_GIVEN_NAME
telephoneNumber	3a08001f	PR_BUSINESS_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
homePhone	3a09001f	PR_HOME_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
Initials	3a0a001f	PR_INITIALS
cn	3a0f001f	PR_MHS_COMMON_NAME
sn	3a11001f	PR_SURNAME
company	3a16001f	PR_COMPANY_NAME
title	3a17001f	PR_TITLE
department	3a18001f	PR_DEPARTMENT_NAME
physicalDeliveryOfficeName	3a19001f	PR_OFFICE_LOCATION
Mobile	3a1c001f	PR_CELLULAR_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
displayName	3a20001f	PR_TRANSMITABLE_DISPLAY_NAME
pager	3a21001f	PR_BEEPER_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
facsimileTelephoneNumber	3a23001f	PR_PRIMARY_FAX_NUMBER
co	3a26001f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_COUNTRY
l	3a27001f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_CITY
st	3a28001f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_STATE_OR_PROVINCE
streetAddress	3a29001f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_STREET
postalCode	3a2a001f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_POSTAL_CODE
telephoneAssistant	3a2e001f	PR_ASSISTANT_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
msExchAssistantName	3a30001f	PR_ASSISTANT
homePostalAddress	3a5d001f	PR_HOME_ADDRESS_STREET
homeMTA	8007001f	PR_EMS_AB_HOME_MTA
C	8069001f	PR_EMS_AB_COUNTRY_NAME
street	813a001f	PR_EMS_AB_STREET_ADDRESS
employeeNumber	8c67001f	PR_EMS_AB_EMPLOYEE_NUMBER
personalPager	8c68001f	PR_EMS_AB_TELEPHONE_PERSONAL_PAGER
employeeType	8c69001f	PR_EMS_AB_EMPLOYEE_TYPE
personalTitle	8c6b001f	PR_EMS_AB_PERSONAL_TITLE

Important

The AD DS Attributes names are case sensitive.

Note

The following table lists AD DS attributes that cannot be customized in the Contact Card displayed in Outlook.

AD DS Attribute	MAPI value	Property Name in the Address Book
displayName	3001001e	PR_DISPLAY_NAME
comment	3004001e	PR_COMMENT
otherTelephone	3a1b101f	PR_BUSINESS2_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
postOfficeBox	3a2b101f	PR_BUSINESS_ADDRESS_POST_OFFICE_BOX
otherHomePhone	3a2f101f	PR_HOME2_TELEPHONE_NUMBER
manager		Does not exist in the Address Book
description	806f101f	PR_EMS_AB_DESCRIPTION
postalAddress	810c101f	PR_EMS_AB_POSTAL_ADDRESS

Note

The MAPI values that you can use for the TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace# value are listed in the Property Tag column of the table shown in the following article:

Mail User Properties

Not every attribute that is listed in this MSDN article is available for customization in the Contact Card.

How to rearrange the Location and Calendar fields

The Location and Calendar fields in the Contact Card differ from the other fields in the Contact Card. These two fields do not pull data from MAPI properties. The data for the Calendar field is retrieved from your current free/busy data, and the data for the Location field is retrieved from the Location setting in Office Communicator, as shown in the following figure:

Note

Microsoft Office Communicator must be running for the data to appear next to the Location field in the Contact Card.

The following registry information is used to move the Calendar and Location fields in the Contact Card from their default locations.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\ContactCard

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabCalendarLineMove
Value: An integer value between 1 and 8

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabLocationLineMove
Value: An integer value between 1 and 8

How to leave a blank line in the Contact Card

If you want to leave a blank line in the Contact Card lines, specify the registry settings as follows:

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace#

Value: Leave this field blank
DWORD: TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace#
Value: 0

Note

For these two registry values, use an integer between 1 and 8 instead of the placeholder #.

This method is demonstrated in the following figure in which the Calendar line in the Contact Card is left blank.

Workaround Example

The following example registry settings make several customizations to the default Contact Card:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\ContactCard

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace4
Value: Alias

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace4
Value: 3a00001f

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace5
Value: E-mail

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace5
Value: 39fe001f

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace6
Value: Free/Busy

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabCalendarLineMove
Value: 6

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabLocationLineMove
Value: 7

String: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace7
Value: IM Location

DWORD: TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace8
Value: Leave this value blank

With the changes that were made, the Contact Card shows the following customizations:

• The Mobile label in line 4 is replaced by the Alias label.
• The user's mailNickname attribute is displayed in line 4.
• The E-mail label is moved to line 5, which replaces the default Home label.
• The user's mail attribute is displayed in line 5.
• The Calendar label is replaced by the Free/busy label and the label is located in line 6.
• The free/busy information is moved to line 6.
• The Location label is replaced by the IM Location label and the label is located in line 7.
• Line 8 is replaced by a blank line.

The following figure shows these customizations:

More information

The Contact Card is also available in other Microsoft Office programs, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint. To customize the Contact Card entries when you use Office programs other than Outlook, use the following registry value instead of the TurnOnContactTabADReplace# value.

String: TurnOnContactTabADReplace#
Value: An AD DS attribute. Please see the AD DS Attribute column in Table 2 for allowed values. Replace the # with an integer between 1 and 8, based on the values that are listed in Table 1 .

The main differences between Outlook and the other Office programs are as follows:

• Outlook must use a MAPI property and the registry value is a DWORD.
• Other Office programs must use an AD DS attribute and the registry value is a String.

Important

The AD DS Attributes names are case sensitive.

How to display the Contact Card in Office programs other than Outlook

The steps to display the Contact Card in Office programs other than Outlook vary from program to program.

Microsoft Word 2010

To display the Contact Card in Microsoft Word, follow these steps:

1. Select the user's name in your Word document.

2. Right-click the user's name, point to Additional Actions and then select Contact Card (Screenshot for this step is listed below).

   

The Contact Card can be displayed from the Info section of the Backstage. To display a Contact Card by using Word, follow these steps:

1. On the File tab, click Info.

2. In the right-pane, rest the pointer over a name under Related People (Screenshot for this step is listed below).

   The Contact Card is displayed after a brief pause.

   

Microsoft Excel 2010

The Contact Card can be displayed from the Info section of the Backstage. To display a Contact Card by using Excel, follow these steps:

1. On the File tab, select Info.

2. In the right-pane, rest the pointer over a name under Related People (Screenshot for this step is listed below).

   The Contact Card is displayed after a brief pause.

   

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

The Contact Card can be displayed from the Info section of the Backstage. To display a Contact Card by using PowerPoint, follow these steps:

1. On the File tab, select Info.

2. In the right-pane, rest the pointer over a name under Related People (Screenshot for this step is listed below).

   The Contact Card is displayed after a brief pause.

   

SharePoint Workspace 2010

To display a Contact Card by using SharePoint Workspace, follow these steps:

1. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, select Contacts.

2. Rest the pointer over a contact (Screenshot for this step is listed below).

   The Contact Card is displayed after a brief pause.

   

SharePoint Server 2010

To display a Contact Card on a SharePoint site, follow these steps:

1. Select the profile page for the contact.

2. Rest the pointer over the Presence icon (Screenshots for this step is listed below).

   

   The Contact Card is displayed after a brief pause.