Remember to update your Facebook provider for OSC

In January of this year, we released an update to the software that connects Outlook Social Connector (OSC) to Facebook.

Starting on May 1^st, all users of the Facebook provider for the OSC will need to download this update to continue getting social media updates from their Facebook contacts and to avoid getting errors when they connect to Facebook via the OSC.

One benefit of the update is that it lets you connect to Facebook over a secure network connection, called a "https" connection. That's the kind of connection that banks use when you visit their sites.

For those of you not familiar with the OSC, it's an add-in to Outlook which integrates your contacts and email messages with status updates from social networks, such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and shows them to you all in one place in Outlook.

Starting on May 1st, all users of the Facebook provider for the OSC will see a notification in the People Pane of Outlook email messages, alerting you to download the update.

If you have installed the OSC, but NOT the Facebook provider, you'll see a one-time notification that lets you download providers for the OSC. If you're not interested in installing additional OSC providers, you can close the notice so that it will not appear again.

(If you're a network administrator and want to learn how to manage the OSC, you can read a post about that on the Exchange blog.)