Contacts emailed as an 'outlook' contact arrive as a vcf unless uisng old POP3

I was redirected here from the Office Outlook forum.
I have been trying for some time to work out how my wife and I can quickly update Outlook contacts between us whilst preserving all the additional data such as profiles, large notes field etc.
I have an Exchange 2010 provider (and 2010 client) and when I forward a contact in 'outlook' format, it arrives at the destination as a vcf having 'lost' much of the Outlook specific data.
If I do the same operation but send the contact via another POP3 (Additional account on my client) to my wifes POP3 (BT ISP), then the file arrives in the correct .msg format preserving categories, notes etc. The same applies if I send it from by POP3 BT
to myself at the same address.
If I send it from my POP3 BT to my 2010 Exchange, then it arrives as a vcf.
All the emails with contact attachments in my sent items are shown correctly.
All the above were using the same client (2010).
I also notice that if I drag the contact from Outlook to a folder somewhere, then it can be dragged into the contacts folder on another client OK.
Any clues how to preserve the receiving format? In my case, if I move my wife to the same exchange domain, then can one email contacts in the Outlook format correctly? We do not want to have a common 'shared' address book as that gets 'complicated' with
Android phones on the account.

As soon as I introduce my exchange server as the sending platform, then somehow the attachments arrive as .vcf whether I send them to a POP3 account or otherwise. I suppose this begs the question; if you send or receive contacts which have been sent outside
an exchange environment (or a specific mail domain on exchange), do they automatically get stripped down to vcf files?
Hi,
It seems to be by design. I tested in my environment. When I send the Contact as an Outlook Contact to an external internet user, the attached Contact would be saved as a VCF file instead of an Outlook itms file.
Regards,
Winnie Liang
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