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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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I installed the Social Connector with Outlook 2007 SP1 on Vista (no SP). The advertised features work pretty well with LinkedIn and are nice. However, Outlook crashes and/or hangs on exit. I disabled the add-in, and now Outlook is stable again. I'm looking forward to the final version, and to Outlook 2010.
I installed the OSC after following the instructions in the blog. I then installed the LinkedIn program. Nothing happens regarding the LinkedIn program when I restarted Outlook. The OSC Com Add-in is active. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I have the same issue as Zac, I can't get my linkedin username/password to work. it works fine in linkedin, but not through the connector. Any advice?
Not sure if this is the best place to post this serious bug report. If not, please tell me where. In testing the latest Outlook 2010 beta under Windows 7 (64 bit), we found serious issues with the MAPI PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS property. Reading the property value does not return the stored RFC header, but creates a new one that lacks many fields like Received and Delivered-To. The Message-ID and Thread-Index values also no longer match the original values. This is a serious issue when processing mail for eDiscovery and forensics. Using IConverterSession.MIMEToMAPI fails to store the original RFC header under the PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS property. As in the first issue above, a new header is inserted and the original Message-ID and Thread-Index values are lost. PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS has always been reliable in previous released versions of Outlook. Therefore I doubt that the behavior in Outlook 2010 is intended and hope that Microsoft will fix it before the final release. Thanks for listening.
I also experienced crashes with the latest Outlook 2010 OSC. Starting regedit.exe and deleting the settings of the older OSC by removing the following registry key fixed it:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\SocialConnector Hope I could help.
If anyone is interested, I wrote up a look at the new LinkedIn feature on our site and we explain the need to uninstall the OSC in 2010 Beta first. www.howtogeek.com/.../our-look-at-the-linkedin-social-connector-for-outlook
I definitely like th idea of having all this info right in Outlook but I've not willing to endure all the crashes and bugs while they get it up and running. I use another plugin from a company called Xobni. That's in box spelled backwards. It works great to give me social intelligence about the people who email me. Perhaps when Microsoft gets this finally fixed, I'll make try it out.
Same problem as Moses and Zac paeth - When you enter a username with an email address (@) the connector refuses to connect to Linkedin. Config: Outlook 2007, Windows 7 Pro.
Other than the issues that davidacoder and keith posted, I have had no issues with the Social Adapter. I have it running in two enviornments:
1. Windows 7 Enterprise with Outlook 2010 AND Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Don't like that CRM is added to the Addin's tab - that kind of sucks, but its a beta..) 2. Windows 7 Enterprise and Office 2007 AND CRM 4.0 Works great... Would still like to see the issues david and keith posted resolved before the final release though...
I'm also unable to install this on the 32-bit RC build of 2010 Professional Plus. I hate to uninstall the RC to replace it with the Beta.
PS. I'm getting "Some" of the pictures from LinkedIn to show up in the picture viewer, but not all. Strange, I can't figure out the logic behind which are showing and which are not. (I have quite a few LinkedIn contacts that are co-workers, some show up, some dont...) -Pictures that is...
I wonder why there is a 64bit version of Office if the team seems to not want to support it.
By installing 64bit Office I lost synchronization with my Windows Mobile device and can’t have social connectors.
@Keith, @Michael: See, we got a combination of b) and c): "Thanks for your feedback" (with NO substantial info) and "we will compile a FAQ", i.e. answer in batch in a couple of weeks, when no one cares anymore, everyone has moved on etc. This is no way to have a conversation on a blog, guys.
64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version, 64-bit version...
It seems that the linkedin connector only finds people by their primary Linkedin email address. It would be good if it would also recognize people by other email addresses registered in their account.
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