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In that case the Certificate is not updated on the "old contact". If you already have the contact added then it becomes a little tricky. So to work around this behavior, for new contacts you should Add to Outlook Contacts and then go into the People Pane and Check the Certificates tab to get the cert details. In the Card, Phone or the List view we can see the Certificates tab where the Certificates can be seen. In the People or Business Card view we cannot see the Certificates button.
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You can, I guess, export the certificate to disk and then import it into the contact via the Outlook Properties dialog but this is tedious.Īny ideas how to work around this and update an existing contact with an S/MIME certificate?Īny ideas why the certificate information is not accessible in the new Contact Card dialog? Seems unfortunate for those of us using S/MIME.Īs per the following article, and specifically the following section:Īdd a recipient's digital ID to your Contacts, the ability to see the Certificates depends on the view in which you are opening the Contact card. There are no certificates associated with the contact. In this view click the "Certificates" button in the header and you will see that You can confirm this by right-clicking the sender in the signed email and selecting "Open Outlook Properties" (do not select "Open Contact Card"). If you make a change there and save then the certificate is not stored in the contact. You only get "Edit Contact" which brings up the new "Contact Card" dialog which has no information about certificates. When right-clicking on their name in a signed message you don't get the "Add to Outlook Contacts" option. In Outlook 2013 this process appears to be broken (for Update the contact with the additional information including the certificate. If a contact already existed then it would prompt you to This would then store the cert in a contactįor future use. 2010) when you received an S/MIME signed certificate from an external party you could right click on their name in the message and select "Add to Outlook Contacts".