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pat-techcommunity
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Jan 03, 2019
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Customize presentation of contact details in Outlook

Hi, I’m new to this community and first of all I would like to say “hello”. ;) I’ve got a question about contact details card in Outlook and how they can be extended in the Office365 Environmen...
  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    Jan 07, 2019

    I used the TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace2 string for the label. And for the value, the TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace2, which needs to be DWORD, not String.

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pat-techcommunity
Copper Contributor
Jan 04, 2019

Hi Vasil,

 

thank you very much for your reply. Great, that gives me hope that it is possible.;)
Based of that link you've posted I found inspiration again and did a bit of further research (matching Outlook 2016). I found that MS provides a set of Group Policies to chance the contact card details. I also played a little bit with that. But, unfortunately the replacements doesn't work.

I used the values and filled it with the specific values:

[string] = turnoncontacttabadreplace16 = extensionAttribute1

[REG_DWORD] turnoncontacttablabelreplace16 = Personalnummer
(The 16 should replace the birthday)

 

I also tried some Azure AD Attributes, but the behaviour doesn't change.

 

So, now I'm wondering, does this work for a O365 Environment with Exchange Online also?


Thank you very much in advance!

 

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VasilMichev
MVP
Jan 05, 2019

It does work, here's a quick test I did with replacing both the label and the corresponding attribute value for the Office field.

 

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    pat-techcommunity
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 07, 2019

    Hi Vasil,

     

    thank you so much for your effort!!
    Okay, that's truly a proof. Obviously I'm doing something wrong.

    I configured both registry keys as well, but the changes wont take effect.
    In this case I used the label telephone "work" to override and linked it with the AD-Attribute "employeeID".

     

     

     

     

    The result (after gpudpate & Outlook restart).

    I don't have a glue what I'm doing wrong. My guess - is there a specific way how to link the AD-Attribute? The attribute is configured in both sources (AD and Azure AD) with same ID and filled with Information.

     

    As already said, I'm really grateful for your help!

    • VasilMichev's avatar
      VasilMichev
      MVP
      Jan 07, 2019

      I used the TurnOnContactTabLabelReplace2 string for the label. And for the value, the TurnOnContactTabMAPIReplace2, which needs to be DWORD, not String.

      • pat-techcommunity's avatar
        pat-techcommunity
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 22, 2019

        Hi Vasil,

         

        I would like to thank you! The MAPI values are working well.
        I was hoping that the AD-Attributes are also working, therefore I've opened Ticket at Microsoft Support. Our findings are the same - the MAPI values are the only working solution to rewrite information in the outlook contact card.

        So, I also thank you for your effort and help! :)