Outlook Social Connector Announcement

The Discussion

• 

  LinkedIn for Outlook does not work for me... huge xml error message first, then I uninstalled everything, installed the OSC, installed Linked in, and now my Outlook simply explode.. nice...

• 

  ---------------------------

  Error

  ---------------------------

  XML Validation Failed

  =====================

  Reason: Element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}getActivities' is unexpected according to content model of parent element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}capabilities'.

  Expecting: {http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}addFriendOrColleague.

  Source: <capabilities xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd"><getFriends>true</getFriends><cacheFriends>true</cacheFriends><followPerson>true</followPerson><doNotFollowPerson>false</doNotFollowPerson><getActivities>true</getActivities><cacheActivities>true</cacheActivities><dynamicActivitiesLookup>false</dynamicActivitiesLookup><displayUrl>false</displayUrl><useLogonWebAuth>false</useLogonWebAuth><hideHyperlinks>false</hideHyperlinks><supportsAutoConfigure>false</supportsAutoConfigure></capabilities>

  Line: 2

  ---------------------------

  OK   

  ---------------------------Bummmmm

  Bummmmm it does not work for me

   

  ---------------------------

  Error

  ---------------------------

  XML Validation Failed

  =====================

  Reason: Element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}getActivities' is unexpected according to content model of parent element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}capabilities'.

  Expecting: {http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd}addFriendOrColleague.

  Source: <capabilities xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/outlook/socialprovider.xsd"><getFriends>true</getFriends><cacheFriends>true</cacheFriends><followPerson>true</followPerson><doNotFollowPerson>false</doNotFollowPerson><getActivities>true</getActivities><cacheActivities>true</cacheActivities><dynamicActivitiesLookup>false</dynamicActivitiesLookup><displayUrl>false</displayUrl><useLogonWebAuth>false</useLogonWebAuth><hideHyperlinks>false</hideHyperlinks><supportsAutoConfigure>false</supportsAutoConfigure></capabilities>

  Line: 2

  ---------------------------

  OK   

  ---------------------------

• 

  ok, I believe it's due to the fact that I'm using Office 64 bit and the OSC works only on 32 bit...

  What a mess...

• 

  Same problem, what a shame. This will be a pretty damn sweet feature though. A lot of people do not post their phone number online, so I hope we can edit the contact to add the additional info we know. Hopefully that does not get overridden. It could get kinda messy, but in theory this sounds great.

   

  I can imagine this with Windows Mobile 7, if someone changes phone numbers, hopefully it'd update automatically and one would never know....but having to sync with outlook, that is kinda lame. Can't this be done over the air? 

• 

  Installing OSC gives me a popup asking me to Restart/Close or Debug Outlook.

  I have to manually remove the Office14/SOCIALCONNECTOR.DLL to fix Outlook again.

  Next I have disabled Microsoft Office Social Connector in Outlook/Add-Ins.

  So no new social life for me?

  I am using Office 32-bit on a 64-bit laptop.

  Any fixes?

• 

  Same issue here.

• 

  The fact that this works for no one here indicates to me this is sub beta quality. I expect betas to actually install and have bugs, not for the bugs to involve getting the product working in the first place.

• 

  Outlook social connector crashes Outlook on me, too. Had to uninstall  and disable too in order to get  back into Outlook.

• 

  I like this, will check it out

• 

  I had the same problem, I went back to my latest working restore point  and start reading the instructions on the download site (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c87e257c-d76f-4785-a09b-af36babd6e32&displaylang=en).

  There is stated that you first need to disable the current Outlook Social Connector deliverd with the Office 2010 Beta. When this option is disabled then you are ready to install the OSC.MSI and after that the Linkedinoutlookconnecter.exe. Following this made it work for me.

• 

  Is the Outlook Social Connector only available for Outlook 2010?  Or can it also be used with Outlook 2007?

   

• 

  Are there any chances that the OSC will be available (in Beta) for 64 bit versions of Outlook 2010?

   

  @Doctor Who: The OSC is only available for Outlookk 2010. I do not know if there are plans to add support for it in Outlook 2007, but properly not.

• 

  I had the same issue, I'm using Office 2010 Beta on Window 64-bit , I had solved this problem by simply run the outlook in safe mode

  Start > Run > Outlook/ safe 

  and then disable the Outlook Social Connector the outlook then worked fine .

• 

  Last couple of days my techs and myself have tried installing on several systems, all fail...

   

  Outlook flat out crashes when the social connector is installed, and the LinkedIn does not work with the 2010 shipping connector.

   

  Sadly, the standard 'uninstall' from the control panel does not work, as it leaves the two 'socialconnector' dlls in the Office14 folder.

   

  This needs to be addressed before a lot of non-tech users try this on, as it is not an isolated problem. As I said, we tried this with several configurations (only 32bit, etc, etc, as the sites state).  I assume MS has some peeps on this, as I told my techs to not take time to debug it out and find the problem.

   

   

   

• 

  You should read the instruction on the download page. Just installed and works fine.

• 

  This crashed for me too, but I figured out how to fix it.

   

  First, uninstall the LinkedIn connector and OSC if you installed them already. Then, right click the Office 2010 entry in Programs and Features and select 'Change'.  When the dialog appears, make sure that 'Add or Remove Features' is selected and click 'Continue'. Expand Microsoft Office Outlook and then Outlook Add-Ins and choose 'Not Available' for Outlook Social Connector. Click Continue, wait for it to finish, and then install OSC and the LinkedIn connector.

• 

  Feb 18, 2010 at 12:57 AM,mikaelmhans​en wrote

  Are there any chances that the OSC will be available (in Beta) for 64 bit versions of Outlook 2010?

   

  @Doctor Who: The OSC is only available for Outlookk 2010. I do not know if there are plans to add support for it in Outlook 2007, but properly not.

  I'm sorry, mikaelmhansen, I just now noticed that you had replied to me back in February.  This new version of channel 9 made it easier for me to see that you'd replied to my question.

  Anyway, thank you for your reply.