# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
  • ABContactUpdate
    • abId
    • contacts
      • Contact
        • contactId
        • contactInfo
        • propertiesChanged
• Server/Response
  • ABContactUpdateResponse
• Examples
  • Client/Request
  • Server/Response

# Introduction

ABContactUpdate is one of the SOAP actions the Address Book Service provides.

Modifies information about a contact from the Forward List (FL). For modifying a contact's information from any other list, see the Contact Sharing Service.

# Client/Request

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactUpdate

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# abId

This element contains your Address Book Service GUID.

# contacts

This element contains one or multiple <Contact> elements.

# Contact

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# contactId

This element only contains the GUID of the contact you would like to modify.

# contactInfo

For more information about this element, read the <contactInfo> article.

The most relevant children are:

• <displayName>: The new display name for this contact.
• <isMessengerUser>: If this is set to false, this user is to be treated as a e-mail contact instead of an Instant Messaging Contact.

# propertiesChanged

This element only contains the space delimited list of updated items in <contactInfo>. The valid values are the following:

• DisplayName
• Passport
• IsMessengerUser
• ContactFirstName
• ContactLastName
• Comment
• MiddleName
• ContactPrimaryEmailType
• ContactEmail
• ContactLocation
• ContactPhone
• ContactWebSite
• Annotation

# Server/Response

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactUpdateResponse

This empty element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: Is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# Examples

# Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABContactUpdate
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1378

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
	xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
	xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
	<soap:Header>
		<ABApplicationHeader
			xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
		>
			<ApplicationID>996CDE1E-AA53-4477-B943-2BE802EA6166</ApplicationID>
			<IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
			<PartnerScenario>Timer</PartnerScenario>
		</ABApplicationHeader>
		<ABAuthHeader
			xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
		>
			<ManagedGroupRequest>false</ManagedGroupRequest>
			<TicketToken>t=ticket&amp;p=profile</TicketToken>
		</ABAuthHeader>
	</soap:Header>
	<soap:Body>
		<ABContactUpdate
			xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
		>
			<abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
			<contacts>
				<Contact
					xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
				>
					<contactId>c1f9a363-4ee9-4a33-a434-b056a4c55b98</contactId>
					<contactInfo>
						<displayName>another user</displayName>
					</contactInfo>
					<propertiesChanged>DisplayName <propertiesChanged>
				</Contact>
			</contacts>
		</ABContactUpdate>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 774

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
	xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
	<soap:Header>
		<ServiceHeader
			xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
		>
			<Version>12.01.1111.0000</Version>
			<CacheKey>12r1;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo0Nzo1OS4zMDZa</CacheKey>
			<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
			<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
			<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
		</ServiceHeader>
	</soap:Header>
	<soap:Body>
		<ABContactUpdateResponse
			xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook"
		/>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>