# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Actions
  • Actions that we don't know much about

# Introduction

The Address Book Service (abservice) is a SOAP (XML) Web Service. Introduced with MSNP8.

It manages the link(s) between the E-mail Service Address Book and the Forward List (FL).

It's default HTTP URL is http://contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx. It's default HTTPS URL is https://contacts.msn.com/abservice/abservice.asmx.

This service requires Passport authentication.

Related: Contact Sharing Service (for other List's members).

# Actions

All actions listed have the prefix of http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/.

• ABFindAll (internal name: Contacts.Pull)
• ABContactAdd (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.Add)
• ABContactDelete (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.Delete)
• ABContactUpdate (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.Update)
• ABGroupContactAdd (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.AddToGroup)
• ABGroupContactDelete (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.DeleteFromGroup)
• ABGroupAdd (internal name: Contacts.Push.Group)
• ABGroupDelete (internal name: Contacts.Push.Group.Delete)
• ABGroupUpdate (internal name: Contacts.Push.Contact.Edit)

# Actions that we don't know much about

• ABFind (internal name: Contacts.FindId)
• ABAdd (internal name: Contacts.AddAb)
• ABDelete (internal name: Contacts.DeleteAb)
• ABFindByContacts (internal name: Contacts.Pull.Id)
• UpdateDynamicItem (internal name: Contacts.Push.DynamicItem.Edit)