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Update: We have heard that some Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta users are experiencing crashes when trying to use the new Outlook Social Connector (OSC) Beta (February Update) that was released today along with the LinkedIn Provider for Outlook. The OSC that was included with the Outlook 2010 Beta must be uninstalled before installing the new OSC Beta (February Update). After the February OSC update is installed, the LinkedIn Provider for Outlook can then be installed. This information is included on our Download Center page for the OSC Beta (February Update). If you have installed the OSC Beta (February Update) and Outlook is crashing, follow the steps outlined on this page. As a reminder, only 32-bit Outlook is supported right now. 64-bit support for the OSC will be available soon.
Update:
We have heard that some Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta users are experiencing crashes when trying to use the new Outlook Social Connector (OSC) Beta (February Update) that was released today along with the LinkedIn Provider for Outlook.
The OSC that was included with the Outlook 2010 Beta must be uninstalled before installing the new OSC Beta (February Update). After the February OSC update is installed, the LinkedIn Provider for Outlook can then be installed.
This information is included on our Download Center page for the OSC Beta (February Update).
If you have installed the OSC Beta (February Update) and Outlook is crashing, follow the steps outlined on this page. As a reminder, only 32-bit Outlook is supported right now. 64-bit support for the OSC will be available soon.
In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the OSC to a public network for the first time. Second, we're excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture.
LinkedIn for Outlook brings together the most popular professional network with the world’s leading professional Inbox. Here are some of the things you can do today by downloading the beta:
We are proud to continue partnering with LinkedIn and we want to congratulate them on a job well done. With this beta, our customers are able to stay connected to their network without leaving the Outlook Inbox.
Our vision for Outlook (and the OSC) is to provide a communications hub that is vital to both professional and personal communications; by integrating with both Facebook and MySpace, Outlook 2010 enables you to connect not only to co-workers and colleagues, but with all of your friends and family within your Outlook Inbox.
Facebook for Outlook
You can view friends’ activities, photos, and status updates within Outlook — as well as grow your network by adding friends from the same view. Both Facebook for Outlook and MySpace for Outlook will be available later this year as our official release of Office 2010 approaches.
Finally, its important to mention that with multiple professional and social networks available for the Outlook Social Connector, the design of the OSC is such that your privacy and permissions settings on each of the networks you use are represented and respected within this experience. For example, if your profile photo and job title are publicly listed on a given network, then OSC users will see your photo and job title when receiving an e-mail from you (if they use that same network). Similarly, if you choose to restrict profile access on a given network, the OSC will respect that privacy. The goal of the OSC is not to create another social network or set of privacy settings for you to manage, but rather to bring the networks you already value and use to the Outlook experience.
To recap, here is what you can do today to get started with the Outlook Social Connector.
Note To use LinkedIn for Outlook requires the latest version of the Outlook Social Connector, which supports the 32-bit English version of the official Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The beta of the Outlook Social Connector is provided as-is, is subject to change without notice, and does not include formal product support from Microsoft.
We are thrilled to reach this significant milestone with LinkedIn and to welcome both Facebook and MySpace to the Outlook Social Connector ecosystem. Stay tuned to this blog for more information from the Outlook team as we get closer to the launch of Office 2010!
Dev Balasubramanian – Outlook Product Manager
Michael Affronti – Outlook Program Manager
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Downloaded and installed. All it shows is the picture and says can't download any data.
Hints?
#1 any Comments from Microsoft or LinkedIn on DavidaCoders questions? (Copied below)
I installed and it seems to work. I am confused, though. It created a new contact folder "LinkedIn" and downloaded all my LinkedIn contacts into that folder. So, now I have two contact folders and essentially every contact is in Outlook twice now, once in my standard contact folder and once in the LinkedIn folder. When I now search for contacts, I get two options for every contact. Somehow this does not look like a good solution, to create duplicates of all contacts. I also assume that once I add the Facebook connector, it will create another copy of each contact? What happens when I have Outlook Connector (i.e. my standard contact list will be synched with the Live contact store) and then add the Live connector? Will I have duplicates then that are not even coming from different web stores? Also, it is unclear to me what kind of synch status this LinkedIn folder has. Is this a one way sync from LinkedIn to Outlook? But I can edit contacts there, will those edits be uploaded to LinkedIn? What if I overwrite information in one of those contacts in Outlook that was provided online via LinkedIn? Also, these contacts don't show up on my phone. I have an Exchange account and the phone syncs via ActiveSync, but of course only with the default contact folder, not the LinkedIn one. Long story short: I think this is in general a good idea, but the details seem utterly unclear, confusing and not well designed. Really, this should be done in such a way that I never have to ask any of these questions... #2 - PEOPLE COMMENTING IN THIS BLOG: Do you understand what "Beta" means? Wow...
@mysticgeek I am getting the same error. I can't tell if this error means that the person I'm trying to add was not found on LinkedIn or if there was an error communicating with LinkedIn. It would be helpful to have more detailed error messages or an error log file somewhere.
#3 - It also does not add the contacts picture UNLESS they are in your standard "contacts". In other words, just because the contact is now duplicated in a "LinkedIn" Contact group, and they have a picture in their contact record, does not mean that they will have a picture that shows up when you are reading a piece of mail from them...
@Keith: I'd be highly surprised if we got any answer here. I've posted a couple of times on the Outlook blog. Normally what happens is either a) you are completly ignored, b) someone writes "thank you for your feedback", c) after weeks someone comes back and answers a bunch of question in batch, after everyone has moved on already or d) [very rarely] do you get anything useful. It actually is really beyond me why you write a blog, but then completly ignore the discussion. Can't someone look here once a day and give some answers? Have a look at how Brian Harry and Co do it.
Hi,
1. I run OL 2010 Pro Beta on Win 7 Pro on Exchange email. What I did: 1. I downloaded and installed OSC.
> I did not Use Programs>Office 2010> Remove OSC as instructed in the document. I had assumed (as many will) that you simply run the installer. > OL Crashes repeatedly. > OL Is able to run in safe mode (with out any problems) > I Removed OSC (uninstall)
> I Repaired OL 2010
> OL 2010 starts fine in normal mode
> I Used Program change to Remove OSC
> OL 2010 runs fine
> I Installed OSC Crashes i've tried this 2 times and same result. In my opinion, this is still buggy. The installation should be fixed to remove the old version. Not many users are going to go into programs to change the Office options. Thanks
@davidcoder Thanks for the feedback David. We compiling an F&Q and response post and will have it up soon. Cheers. -michael affronti
outlook program manager
For those of you that are trying to use this in a Windows 7 / Office 2010 enviroment. Uninstalling components works a little different than previous OS's AND Office 2010 installs a bit different than 2007..etc... All you have to do is go into the control panel > Click Programs and Featurs > Highlight Office > Click "Change" > Choose Add or Remove Features > Choose Outlook > Choose Outlook Add in's > Choose the Outlook Social Connector and change it to Not available. The "NEW" social Connector installs as a separate component and will be available to uninstall normally after it is installed. ATTENTION: After you have installed the "NEW" Social connector, AFTER you have uninstalled the one that comes with Outlook 2010, you also have to download and install the LinkedIn Social Adapter. It will prompt you to configure it when you launch outlook next...
i cant get my linkedin username/password to work. it works fine in linkedin, but not through the connector. Any advice? Am I SOL to get this working? zpaeth@aerotek.com
Regarding Installs comment. That does not work. My OL2010 is messed up now. It only starts in Safe mode. The procedure (as I outlined) before does not work. I've tried it on two computers and OL 2010 is "HOSED". I suspect this has to do with the fact that I did not do the original install correctly, i.e, Deactivate the Original OSC in Add/Remove programs. Any way to fix this?
Thanks to everyone for trying out the Outlook Social Connector! I'm sorry for the trouble some of you are having with the update proces. We made an update to this blog post (check the top) where we summarized the steps that were already on our Download Center page to hopefully make them clearer and easier to follow. Please take a look! Once you're done, be sure to download the LinkedIn provider from www.linkedin.com/outlook. Thanks! - michael affronti outlook program manager
Is an SDK available to write our own connector for OSC?
I have a different issue. Uninstalled old OSC, installed new OSC, downloaded LinkedIn adapter, ran it, and the next time I open Outlook.... Nothing! The LinkedIn add-in does not show up in add-ins. From the surface everything should be working. At least Outlook isn't crashing. One thing worth mentioning is that in order to get Outlook 2010 Beta to run I needed to disable the outlookaddin.dll. Outlook would just sit on the splash screen and never get past it. Not sure if that has anything to do with my issue. Any thoughts?
Hello. I'm not sure where to post my question, so I will post it here. Whenever I click on the main Outlook folder (Personal Folders?) in the Navigation Pane, which should take me to Outlook Today, it thinks for a moment, and then Outlook ends up crashing and restarting. Does this problem sound familiar? Is there something I'm doing wrong on my end?
Will Entourage finally be able to handle html email properly? It's the single most annoying thing about Entourage.
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