Creating Trusted Contacts

A trusted contact is someone whose online identity you can verify. You do this by receiving contact information from the person that contains a security certificate, which you can then match to the person's online identity. Trusted contacts are especially useful when you're using People Near Me and Windows Meeting Space.

Exchange Contacts

Click the Start button, type contact in the Search box, and click Windows Contacts. Open your own Contacts file, and verify that it contains all the information you want to share, including your e-mail address. Click OK to close the file.

Right-click the Contacts file, point to Send To on the shortcut menu, and do either of the following:

• Choose Mail Recipient, and send the message that appears to the person whom you want to list you as a trusted contact.

• Choose to copy the file to a removable storage device.

When the other person receives the message or the removable storage device, have him or her open the file and choose Add To My Contacts. After your Contacts file has been added, your name appears in the recipient's Trusted Contacts list.

Now have the other person send you his or her Contacts file so that you can add it to your Trusted Contacts list.

Tip

Contact information is usually sent in one of two waysas a Vcard (a virtual business card) that has the .vcf file extension, or as a Contacts file that has the .contact file extension. Only a file with the .contact file extension contains the security certificate that you need to create a trusted contact, so make sure when you send or receive information that it's contained in a Contacts file.