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Outlook is the premier communications tool to stay connected with colleagues, friends, and family. Your email messages, even from multiple accounts, are in one place. Connections and communication also happen on websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live. Through these sites, you find new contacts and reconnect with old ones. You can share who you are, what you think, what you are doing, and what you like or don’t like. So, it makes sense that you can now add your friends and colleagues to these sites and get their activities from within Outlook.
Today, we are announcing that you can use the Outlook Social Connector with Facebook and Windows Live. Our partners LinkedIn and MySpace are also releasing updates for their providers. All of the latest providers appear on the provider page.
We are also releasing the Outlook Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Office Outlook 2003 in the following languages:
Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Thai, with more languages in the upcoming months.
You can the download Outlook Social Connector for your language at the Microsoft Download Center.
Lastly, we are also releasing an update to the Outlook Social Connector for Outlook 2010. This update is distributed through Microsoft Update.
To learn more about the Outlook Social Connector, see this introductory article.
With today’s updates:
You can add friends and colleagues to Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live, directly from the Outlook People Pane.
When viewing a message from someone, you see real-time updates from his or her activities on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Windows Live. You see information that your friends and co-workers have made public on those sites, as long as the email address they are using to communicate with you has been added to their account settings on the social network.
We believe that the information you share through social networks is a matter of personal choice. You should decide whether to share very little, or reveal a lot about yourself. You might decide to share information only with your friends, or share details with everyone. You might decide to have a strong division between personal networks and professional ones, or between social networking and email. The Outlook Social Connector respects what you decide to share through social networks. Other people using the Outlook Social Connector can only see information about you based on what you have made public to them on social networks and the email address in your profile on the social network.
You can review our privacy policy here. You can also review those of our partners by visiting their sites to understand each option and help make your personal choices to protect your privacy.
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How is social networking and Outlook working for you? We look forward to your comments.
Randy Byrne, Program Manager, Microsoft Outlook
Alessio Roic, Program Manager, Microsoft Outlook
Paco Contreras Herrera, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Office
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That's great, but now that I have upgraded to office 2010 and skydrive, I can no longer share my calendar. I can't believe that you took away this function. With office 2007 and office live, the tasks were saved as an excel spreadsheet which can be accessed through outlook 2007 by anyone who was in our group. Now that we have skydrive and 2010 that funcion is gone. Sounds like you are going backwards rather than forwards. I think I am going to give you a month or so and check back. If nothing, I am making a complete switch to google products, Steve Balmers cloud or not.
This comment refers to an earlier blog post, "Better IMAP in Outlook 2010", which now been closed for comments. blogs.msdn.com/.../better-imap-in-outlook-2010.aspx You have to be joking. Tell me you are joking. Why would you even pretend that Outlook 2010 has even marginally improved IMAP performance? As a previous poster said, I can't believe that you would write this unless you had a gun to your head. Outlook 2010 IMAP performance is atrocious, and the feature set supported is minuscule. Congratulations on adding automatic configuration; the only problem is, after you've set up an IMAP account, you wish that you hadn't.
I'm an IT pro, dev, and all around nerd. And I have NO CLUE how to configure the Social Connector. I'm pretty sure I have it all installed yet it's super confusing. The way Outlook 2010 (and really the rest of the office 2010 apps) handle options and "back stage" UI is a big step backwards. By no means am I stuck in the past. It's just not clear! Another example is the Hotmail connector. There is now no way to control the sync settings. It's just installed or not. It's really frustrating.
Where can I find the x64 version?
I was so excited to get Facebook on my Outlook Social Connector!
FB with Outlook works great here.
Just two things I was wondering about:
1. You can see the FB profile picture, but can you add it as the contact picture in Outlook?
2. It would be great if you could add all Facebook-Contacts which aren't already in Outlook!
Thx and keep up the good work!
I've followed the instructions and added FB and Linkedin to OUtlook 2010 32 bit. View;People Pane;Account Setting; check box for FB and Linkedin;type in logon in and password as required, then I get the following message for both: COULD NOT CONNECT TO SERVER. This message appears above the logonid of both programs. I can't find any reference to this issue anywhere.
Is there a way we can add a secondary email for somebody? Most of the people who use facebook, use a different email than their work email. So I have 500+ friends on facebook, by osc found like 3 so far. I tried to add a secondary email to their outlook contact, but that doesn't seem to get the facebook data.
Outlook Connector is nice but I stopped using Live Messenger and switched to another app since Wave 4 dropped XP support.
follow up... I found that if I change to "work offline" in the send/receive tab then I can get the FB and Linkedin to connect!! I wonder why the install instructions don't mention this???
I second Donny's comment. Also, many people do not share their Email address in Facebook - it would be nice to be able manually associate an Outlook contact with a FB Friend.
Same issue as what Donny said...No point in using the connector unless we can link the Profiles to user separately since most of my friends do NOT use their Office Email with Facebook account and hence no connection..:(
Adding a persons FB-email as secondary email works fine here... But i'd also appreciate if you could manualy connect fb-profiles to contacts.
Furthermore, it would be great if you could see over which social network you're connected to a contact in the business-card-view.
@Adam: can you give me more details on which settings you're interested hearing more about? I'll be glad to point you in the right direction. Thanks Alessio Roic
Program Manager - Microsoft Outlook
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