How to export/import MS Office Communicator contacts?

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David R Tribble picture David R Tribble · Dec 3, 2009 · Viewed 37.6k times · Source

I had MOC 2005 re-installed on my office PC recently, and found to my chagrine that it had lost all of my contacts. I've searched for ways to export/import the contacts list, but have not found any useful answers. Some suggest looking in the registry at key tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Communicator, but all I find are the titles of the contact groups I used to have (as binary Unicode values), but which MOC no longer recognizes.

My plan is to export the registry (or data file) values and then write a script to re-instate them, I just need to know where to find those values.

Any suggestions?

Update

I think I may have found the answer myself. I located an XML file in:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\
  Microsoft\Communicator\presence_User_Name_Company_Com.xml

which appears to contain all my contact info.

I plan to examine it a little further soon.

Answer

venu2705 picture venu2705 · Jan 15, 2010

open this file in excel from the following location C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\ Microsoft\Communicator\presence_User_Name_Company_Com.xml . all the contacts will be arranged in a single column. you can save it....:) easy way to take a bakup....

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