This past November, we announced a partnership between Microsoft and LinkedIn to bring your LinkedIn Professional Network right within your Microsoft Outlook Inbox.
I’m happy to say that a Beta version of this functionality is now available.
Here’s what you can do today to start leveraging your professional network within Outlook:
- Download the latest version of the Outlook Social Connector from Microsoft (Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 is required)
- Once that is installed, download the LinkedIn Outlook Connector
- Restart your Outlook and follow the instructions to connect your LinkedIn account to Outlook
As soon as LinkedIn and Outlook are connected, Outlook will start bringing in information about your LinkedIn network. You should then start seeing profile photos and LinkedIn activity for any connection that e-mails you.
Here’s a quick one-minute demo (key benefits after the jump):
At LinkedIn, we believe every professional is more productive when their professional network is close at hand and available wherever they spend their professional time. Bringing this network into your inbox is thus an obvious extension to what LinkedIn does today and helps unlock several benefits:
- Keep track of what your LinkedIn connections are working on and thinking about – See the latest activity for any LinkedIn connection who e-mails you right at the bottom of that e-mail. See who they are connecting with, the articles they are reading and sharing, and the questions they are asking and answering. If they have a Profile Photo, you’ll see that too.
- Get the latest contact information for your professional connections – E-mail addresses, profile details, and photos from your LinkedIn connections will start appearing in an Outlook Contacts folder named “LinkedIn” – so now you’ll always have the latest contact information from LinkedIn close at hand. You’ll also be able to e-mail your LinkedIn connections by just typing their name into the Outlook “To:” box and letting Outlook fill-in the rest.
- Grow your LinkedIn network with ease – Click the green “Add” icon next to any email sender to easily invite them to join your professional network on LinkedIn.
We hope that this functionality starts bringing some of the benefits of LinkedIn to where you spend a majority of your professional time – your Microsoft Outlook inbox. This functionality is still in Beta, however, so any feedback on issues, problems, or features is very welcome. Feel free to leave this feedback using the comments below.
Learn more. Download. http://www.linkedin.com/outlook
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- LinkedIn Developer Network
Comments
Works fine. Some people are not recognised as business communication often works with business e-mail addresses and for LinkedIn often a privat e-mail address is used.
Regards,
Anton
Hi.
What about the LinkedIn Outllok Toolbar? This new plugin replaces the former?
Thanx
Great work. Was looking for such an integration since long.
Can you confirm if it works behind Corporate firewall (proxy auhtentication)?
This is great stuff. However, its quite hasslesome to have an additional Contacts folder in Outlook as a result. First of all, like many people, I like having all my contacts nice and tidy in one place (i.e., one Contacts folder). Secondly, many of my LinkedIn people were already in my existing Outlook Contacts folder, so now I have two entries for many people — one in each folder. Thirdly, iPhone syncs all Outlook Contacts folders it finds, and currently there’s no way to make it not do that, so as a result many people now appear twice in my iPhone Contacts. So while this new LinkedIn social connector for Outlook is very cool in many ways, it also totally throws peoples’ Contacts management…
Is there any problem with running both this and the normal LinkedIn toolbar?
Does it work with Microsoft Entourage for Mac?
Integration…. that’s the KEY!
Hi, I Install, restart, and nothing:( Is it working for Outlook 2010 64bit?
Probably no http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/socialconnector/default.aspx
Thx.
no go for Outlook 2010, 64 bit version. Now come one folks. its 2010, 32 bit is so 1990′s
Hi,
BTW, I had had LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar Installed earlier, not sure if:
> Installing LinkedIn Oultook Connector while LI OL Toolbard was already installed caused this problem.
I’m going to uninstall LI OL Toolbar and see if I can get my Outlook Running.
BTW, Starting outlook in safe mode (Holding down CTRL key while clicking on the OL Shortcut) does start outlook. But OL does not start anymore in normal mode.
How does the tool recognize my Outlook contacts? My first experience is that my LI contacts have private mail adresses, while in my Outlook I have e-mails from them from their professional mail account.
Would it be possible to match those?
Also curious how it works with the company proxy.
Just downloaded. Watching the one minute video DEFINITELY helps explain some of the features. Interested to see how this helps!
Is there going to be a simliar thing for Mac Mail?
Thanks for the response Anton, that answers my question. I guess that is one reason why people should add both their personal as well as their work email to their LinkedIn account at:
https://www.linkedin.com/secure/settings?emadd
Great work. I have been looking for such an integration for long.
Can you confirm if it works behind database services as Media Interactive Networking Tool ..?..
What is the average sync time before it’s up and running? I’m guess it has a lot to do with how many connections you have?
It can take up to several hours for your contacts to completely synch. After they synch, you may need to restart Outlook to receive full functionality.
This is a great start. For those of us on a Mac, could you please make a plug-in to Spotlight, letting us search our LinkedIn contacts from the desktop?
Are there currently any plans to make this available for users of MS Entourage or other Exchange clients ?
doesn’t work with Outlook 2010, outlook won’t startup anymore … I’m f312%
Does the Linked In-Outlook plug in works for Entourage, the “outlook” for Macs? Anyone knows this?
Great movement! Business is social and business minded people deserves smart social networking solutions
Waw.. It`s realy working!
Hmmm… installed it, restarted Outlook, but according to Outlook 2003 I’m connected but the Contacts -> Linkedin-tab remains empty. What can cause this?
I am always up for a thoughtful discussion like this.
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Hi,
After installing the application, I’m still unable to see any activity for my contacts. Message is “search may be incomplete as indexing isnt complete”. Also, when I try to add contact using the “+Add” green icon, i get an error messge indicating “Error adding this person on Linkedin”. How do I resolve this?
The main problem is that Microsoft have only released the updated OSC in 32-bit form, however I and a lot of other users have installed 2010 Beta in 64-bit which means we have to wait until June apparently for the 64-bit version.
Well, I installed the connector and have had Outlook 2010 Beta crash 3 times in the last 10 minutes. Never had a crash before this. Seems pretty buggy.
If you are having problems with the Outlook Connector crashing, then please take a look at this link from Microsft that should help explain the issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2010/02/17/Outlook-Gets-Social-with-LinkedIn_2C00_-Facebook_2C00_-and-MySpace.aspx
No go for Outlook 2010 Beta 32-bit. Outlook starts but no LinkedIn connector in add-ins. Followed instructions and removed then updated the Outlook Social Connector. Run the processes a few times with a reboot and nothing…
Fantastic tool which competes with Xobni for functionality. Would love to be able to manually or automatically associate contacts with email addresses where there multiple email accounts per contact. Same issue as reported by Anton (comment #2)
Ok,
changed my password on the website, and now the Connector is working properly: it seems it does not allow for spaces in passwords.
Tariq
I think this connector is great, however I’m having problems with international characters in my contacts names. It seems that you’re not using Unicode and all the non-English characters appears like strange symbols.
Also, having a separate Contacts folder is a little confusing.
Nice, have been waiting a long time for this, one question however. Why is ther no silent install option in the linkedinoutlookconnector.exe?
I thought it was old-school to put on your sneakers to install this on all the computers in a corporate environment. It’s 2010! SCCM, SMS, Active-Directory deployment, Altiris, all valid software to deploy software packages to computers.
Hi,
I also think that this plug-in is of great value. Nevertheless, As already remarked I have also problems with two contact folders at oultlook and iPhone. Shall I try to merge them?
Thanks for your advice,
Ariel
Accented characters (“éàé” etc…) in linked-in contacts profiles (names comments, etc…) appears as “?” inside a black square inside outlook
IS there a fix available ?
This is great stuff but a bit cumbersome. Could have been much simpler without the need for maintaining to contact lists. Wonder how it would work with the Outlook 2010
Great tool – but one MAJOR issue:
It doesn’t merge w/existing outlook contacts to integrate phone #’s and emails as most people do not have work emails on their LinkedIn profile (or this tool is only pulling their “public” email address). As a result most, if not all, of my contacts are coming up as NOT being connected to me via linked when in fact we are connected.
If a 1st level connection emails me from their work email address and not a 3rd party email (i.e. Yahoo, gmail, aol, etc) they are coming up as a potential new connection not as someone already in my LinkedIn network.
It would be nice to see the level of connection a person is – 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or out of network
Where is the help page? I have downloaded both the social connector from Microsoft and the linkedin connector from here, but get no contact folder added nor updates. the addin does not show on the com addins nor can I add it manually. although I can browse to the folder it is in from the COM add ins window in outlook.
Is there a way/site to report bugs?
Another issue I am having – Contacts stopped importing @ the letter “S” – no contacts w/last names starting w/an T or later were imported in to Outlook.
Is there a max number of connections that can be imported in to outlook? I have about 2K 1st level connections
i’m running Outlook 2007
@Jim- Go to the LinkedIn website and click on the Customer Service link in the bottom corner of your screen. Do a quick search to see if the issue is already addressed in our FAQ’s. If it isn’t, then click on the “Ask Customer Service” tab at the top of the page and submit it to our CS team for further review. I hope that helps. Thanks.
OL2010 32-bit. It seems that the link between my OL Contacts and LinkedIn is by the first email address in OL. It seems that the connector doesn’t recognize a Contact if the second address in OL is the contact’s default LinkedIn address. Pls confirm.
Why can’t I get this to work? I have downloaded and installed both the MS Outlook social connector and the LinkedIn Outlook connector but Outlook does not see any social networks – ie the screen when you first start Outlook where you are supposed to select LinkedIn from the list – there is no list!
Has anyone any ideas on what might have gone wrong or any tips to resolve this? I have tried uninstalling and re-installing to no avail.
Mark – I have the same problem.
Totally agree with Paul (17-Feb-2010)!
The last version of the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar was very great because you can decide which contact folders use to sync with LinkedIn… now the LinkedIn Outlook Connector is a step backward, having a fixed LinkedIn contact folder.
The most of my LinkedIn contacts are already in my main contact folder and I don’t want to have lot of dups. Another problem is the Windows Mobile Active Sync procedure… it syncs only the main contact folder, thus no LinkedIn synced contacts will be available on my cell phone.
In order to be useful, the new connector have to permit the user to decide which is the contact folder to sync with LinkedIn and dedup procedures have to be available (exaclty as available in the LinkedIn Outlook toolbar).
Very good for all the other new features
good to see
How do you sync LinkedIn to the Outlook LinkedIn contacts so new LinkedIn contacst appear in Outlook?
Got it working! Had to manually activate it in Outlook. Sweet!
What about doing the same thing with the gmail?
Hi,
Just installed the add-in and I’m a bit confused how this should work. I now have two contact folders (was hoping it would integrate with the existing contacts). A bigger issue is support for Swedish characters åäöÅÄÖ. Contacts with this characters get strange characters instead of the åäö.
Yes, it really has to sync with your existing contacts. I don’t see the point of having multiple contacts for the same contacts.
Same issue as above with French accents (éàùëöê) not being supported
It looks like log in details that include special characters (commas, accents, symbols etc.) are causing some log in issues. Our team is aware of it and we are working on a fix for it now. Thanks for being patient while we get this taken care of.
-Derek
Trying to use the new connector. Downloaded OSC, using Outlook 2007 32 bits (OS = windows 7 – 64 bits).
Within Outlook, when I want to “activitate” the LinkedIn Social connector it says Invalid user name or password. But they are they with I am able to log onto LinkedIn.
I use my email address as user name. So only an @ character in the user name and a dot, no diacritics in the password.
I am having an issue connecting through Outlook 2007. Everything was working fine for a few days after install, now I am getting an invalid username/password message. Is this still working for others?
I was wondering…has anyone fixed the problem with linkedin connector yet?
“http://www.linkedin.com/answers/using-linkedIn/ULI/633799-9042396″
I am going batty here trying to get this to work.
Zac
About to give it a try, will report back…
Greta idea, but the problem with accented letters needs to be fixed. Also, I have experienced some photos not being snyched to the right people, or being there one day but not the next.
@Tim- Thanks for making us aware of these issues. Our team is working on both of them. We appreciate your patience int he meantime.
Hi Elliot,
I praised this initiative a couple of days ago and I hope you guys will continue to improve the tool.
However, there are some serious issues in using the MS/LI tools. Let me phrase a couple (perhaps some of these comments may have to be realted to/with MS):
- it should not create a new contact folder in outlook but integrate and find the existing contacts in the respective folders we have. This situation cause duplication and serious synchronization issues.
- on the content being downloaded to the business cards I notice that you put the profile url of the members in the designated URL for acompany websites in Outlook – so you are overwriting data which is essential and the LI url is not appropriate there – put it in the notes
- in stead of taking the current (most recent) position and company, the tool is taking the TAG from LI profile and puts it in the position box in Outlook – also this is unacceptable.
the synchronixation as said has caused me 4 days work to get it all back in order. So nice tool if it works properly and more user testing is definitely required as we are having huge messes on our site.
Thanks for considerations.
Joris Claeys
ACCELERATE
knowledgEnabler
Hi,
I downloaded the connector, didn’t like it and now can’t remove it. I removed the program from control panel however it remains in outlook.
Please can you advise?
Russ
Joris: >>- it should not create a new contact folder in outlook but integrate and find the existing contacts in the respective folders we have. This situation cause duplication and serious synchronization issues.<<
The problem with this is syncing to smartphones: There is no way I'd want to sync to my BlackBerry every LinkedIn contact. I have way too many LinkedIn contacts who I barely or don't know, cluttering my BB with those names would create major problems (memory capacity, searching speeds, etc.) without any benefit to offset the problems.
I currently have Outlook 2010. My LinkedIn connector is asking for my User Name and Password to set up a connection. When I enter my e-Mail address and password as I would if logging into LinkedIn through the IE web browser, I get a message that says that my User Name or Password are incorrect. Is there anyone who knows a fix to this problem?
@Charles- We recently updated the Connector to help fix the issue you mentioned. Please download the most up to date version here http://www.linkedin.com/outlook and it should solve your problem. Thanks.
Any chance of adding this type of functionality to Mozilla Thunderbird?
Wonderful tool! Outlook integration is a real productivity multiplier. My biggest gripes:
1. Does not recognize alternative email addresses (which may exist in my outlook contact or in a linked-in profile.)
2. Separate contact file – I suggest the Xobni approach of updating contact records.
3. Status Updates do not seem to work
4. Invitations need more options. I want to know a) if they are already on LinkedIn and b) ability to customize the message. also, I get many failures with no apparent reason.
5. Hopefully MSFT will include a blended mode, so i can see Facebook and LinkedIn information combined (again, like Xobni)
Overall I’m VERY pleased with this tool and look forward to new updates.
@Charles,
I have had the same issue with the username / password. Lots of people are asking but no responces. I guess there is no fix for that.
I’ll watch future comments with interest.
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I have been having issues with synchronization of new contacts in linkedin, since i installed it hasnt updated
@Patrick, Derek Homann, …
I have had also the same issue with username / password.
My e-mail address is like this: name.surname@company.com
I also changed my password similar to asdf1234, so no special characters, but still same error.
Ok, I’ve got the new Outlook Connector working, but I’m not crazy about it, particulary – like a lot of other people have mentioned – the way it creates a whole new Contact List in Outlook instead of integrating/syncing with my primary Contact List.
Does anyone know what the difference is between the LinkedIn Connector and the LinkedIn Toolbar? Does the Toolbar sync LinkedIn Contacts with existing Outlook Contacts?
Thanks!!
-Steve
This is a start, but it has several failings. As others have remarked, the main one is that it only identifies people based on their primary e-mail address in LI which may or may not be the one they are sending from. This is likely because it just checks against contacts in the special local LI folder which just have the single primary e-mail address. In contrast the LI OL Toolbar checks the remote LI server for all e-mail addresses in a person’s profile, so is much better. It is also necessary to have Windows Indexing/Search turned on which I usually do not as I use X1 which I find more powerful and less resource intensive. For now I will uninstall and just use the LI OL Toolbar until an improved version of the Social Connector is released.
This is a great idea and tool. Well done and it’s a great start. For me it’s working fine for me but what are the next steps?
I really like the feature, but as Nick mentioned it is only checking against the primary e-mail address, so many of the people in my network are not recognized because they are sending email via their company email account.
I’m very impressed with how the product is coming on; keep up the great work.
Only issue I have right now is that it’s causing an issue with a couple of other plug-in’s, notably Sony Ericsson PC Suite.
Are you aware of this?
Thanks
Richard
@Richard,
Thanks for letting us know and for your kind words.
/@mariosundar from @linkedin
Hello,
I test this connector on my Spanish Outlook and I have some problems with spanish special characters.
Inform tica y Telecomunicaciones
thanks
You guys should really offer the 64 bit version. The 64 bit version of the Social Connector is installed with office 2010 64 bit.
Like others have said – make it sync more than just the primary contact and you guys have got yourself an absolute winner.
Like many others on this list I think the features are great, but with the big exception that the separate LinkedIn folder is a pain. I, like many, need to be able to merge the LinkedIn contacts with my existing contacts.
I’ve seen vartios replies from the Product Specialist at LinkedIn about other issues but no comment on this. C’mon @LinkedIn – speak up – what’s going to happen about this issue? If nothing then just say so and I’ll busy myself with the uninstall.
As far as I know, there aren’t any plans to change this at this time. However, your feedback is appreciated and will definitely be taken into consideration for future enhancements.
Any update on a 64bit version not that Office 2010 is RTM? Thanks!
@derek I have had also the same issue with username / password.
My e-mail address is like this: name.surname@company.com
I also changed my password similar to asdf1234, so no special characters, but still same error.
Boy it would shure be nice to see a fix for this problem @Derek!
@Zac- Have you downloaded the most up to date version of the Outlook connector? If not, please do that first by downloading it here: http://www.linkedin.com/outlook
PLEASE give us flexibility to have either two folders (as it is now) or a commingled folder (as requested by some on this discussion thread). I want to have two separate folders because a commingled folder would sync hundreds of LinkedIn contacts who I barely know into my BlackBerry and Google Contacts.
A 64bit version is needed now that 2010 has RTM’d. I cam’t see settling for a 32bit version just for a connector.
@Derek I have indeed downloaded th emost recent version. Still not working.
@Zac- It might be best if you contacted our Customer Service team to try to further troubleshoot your issue. You can use the Customer Service link at the bottom of any page on LinkedIn to get there. You’ll need to do a quick search to see if you can find the answer to your problem first. After you looked for the answer, an “Ask Customer Service” tab will appear and you can submit your question there. Thanks.
In my case the issue with not being able to log in is caused by our corporate proxy server. As soon as I just hook up to the internet without the proxy being in between all works fine. Looks like the plugin is not proxy aware.
I am trying to use the LinkedIn connector on two different machines. Both Windows 7, but one is 64-bit, the other 32 bit.
Both are running 32-bit Office 2010, but the 32-bit Windows 7 machine is still running the beta (RTM on the 64-bit OS).
Same LinkedIn account, works on the 32-bit machine, but not on the 64-bit one (which, again, has 32-bit Office installed). It tells me “Invalid user name or password”
Any ideas?
Come ON people, please I NEED the 64bit version!!!
Any chances?
When?
I need a proxy-aware solution too. I can’t distribute this at work without one. Thanks.
is it possible to let us know if anyone is working on the 64-bit version of this connector?
how do I remove it? it completely destroys the first name last name order.
Any news on 64-bit version for Office 2010?
I think it is working great! I like (instead of others) the fact that it is a different list.
I have one issue: Some contacts do have the wrong picture according to their profile. I.E. In Outlook I see a picture of a woman asociated to a guy who doesn’t have a picture at all on his profile page.
Although the woman is much better looking than the guy in question, I would like to see this bug fixed
Was really looking forward to this, but since I’m on a 64-bit-when-possible strategy, I can’t see us deploying Office 2010 in 32-bit for the sake of a connector.
I was quite excited for this feature, but as others have mentioned after using it for three weeks, it’s not quite ready for prime time.
1. I’ve seen several issues where it sends the email to the Linkedin primary email (usually personal) even if I specify the corp email account in the To:
This is a huge problem! Now I can’t seem to remove the connector. I’ve removed it from the add/remove programs in control panel, but he linked in contacts list is still in outlook and along with the same address problems.
2. I have a company address book as well as the linked in contacts list. This always defaults to the linkedin address book and not the corp address book. Another big problem and no way that I can find to change it.
This is a nice idea, but definitely released a little early.
Windows 7/Outlook 2010
I am currently running the social connector with the new (final) version of Outlook 2010. The only real issue that I’m finding is that the pictures that are associated with some of my LinkedIn contacts are not correct? Very strange…. some of my contacts have random pictures.
Not crazy about having multiple contact folders in Outlook, but I’ll survive.
Any solutions for the random picture issue?
After installing the linkedin connector to my Outlook 2010 RTM 32bit install on Win7 x64, it has destroyed my Outlook Social Connector add-in functionality. The only thing that I get now is the little pictures, names and titles.
Un-installing the Lindedin connector and/or the Outlook Social Connector add-in didn’t not bring the “basic” functionality back. Also, deleting and creating a new windows profile did not fix the problem.
Any ideas?
We need this for 64-bit Office 2010 RTM!
Superb concept but a couple of teething problem. Not sure how to integrate seperate Linkedin outlook folder. I have been moving LI contacts into Business Contact Manager folder but of course will be loosing updates via LI. also noticed that “some” LI contacts have wrong pictures.
Where can I get best practice advice on the SNC ?
Thanks
This is what I would like to know: Which of my Outlook contacts are already on Linikedin? If they are, I would like to invite them as a Linkedin contact.
I second the call for a x64 version.
All good except for, as everyone seems to be saying, it doesn’t recognise most of my contacts as it only uses one of their email addresses.
Will be reverting to the Outlook Toolbar until that’s fixed (and a bit surprised it wasn’t done in the first iteration, even as a beta, but that’s the way of things these days isn’t it…) but otherwise looks great.
Beta testing isn’t for big mistakes like this though.
A Note to all of you 64bit people…
You do realize that Office 2010 is the first in the office series to offer a 64bit version of the application right? And LinkedIn is not the only plugin that won’t work in it… almost none of them will.
I realize that some people are just Geeks (I’m one of them
) and have to have the latest and greatest of everything, but unless you are creating PowerPoints or Excel Docs larger than 2GB you won’t see much of a difference between 32-64bit versions. (That is one heck of a PowerPoint!)
Just sayin…
Yes I thought all these 64bit issues were a bit Geeky but not at all. I bought a cheap Celeron based Dell laptop for my sister and you know what OS it came with: Vista 64bit!
So looks like this isn’t just an issue for my sister, but for a lot others also.
Richard,
There is a difference between a 64bit Operating System and a 64 bit Application. Having a 64bit Operating System is great, it allows you to run with more than 4GB of RAM (and many other advantages) Plus, you can run most 32bit applications on it. (Including Office 32bit)
However, you CANNOT run a 64bit Application on a 32bit Operating System.
In a nutshell: You CAN run Office 2010 32bit on Windows XP 64bit, Vista 64bit and 7 64bit. You do not need Office 64bit just because you have a 64bit OS.
Here are a few links about the advantages/disadvantages of going to a 64bit Application:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Office-2010-32-bit-vs-64-bit-137031.shtml
http://4sysops.com/archives/office-2010-64-bit-or-32-bit-part-2-advantages-and-disadvantages/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/office2010/thread/40d17c38-90e0-48d9-8f83-d9721a24b063
PS. How about before we move on to a 64 bit version of the Add-in, we fix the issues in the current version?
Thanks for the clarification Keith and I agree with you wholeheartedly on having the 32 bit version polished off before moving to the 64 bit version.
We are planning to roll out MSO2010 x64. Is there any news on the x64 version of this connector?
I vote to get a current a version of the 64bit connector, in it’s current state. Some functionality is better than no functionality in my mind.
Could we get a 64bit version of the connector please for use with the Office 2010 (x64) release?
Thanks
Andy
I also second the x64 version. We really appreciate to have this as soon as possible.
Thanks guys!
Omid
64 bit version please
PLEASE can we have a 64 bit version!
any ETA?
Could you make it sing and dance too? I don’t understand why it won’t do my work for me? What kind of an application is this?
… cart before the horse people… the Greeks and the Romans figured it out a long time ago…
This product is still in BETA, 32bit will ALWAYS come before the 64bit of ANYTHING … Lets get the current one out of Beta so we can move on.
We are currently running the connector on our Windows 7 Machines and Office 2010. We seem to be having a problem with random photos being associated with people on my linkedin network.
Is there a solution for this?
I want 64-bit. I run Outlook 2010 in 64-bit. Outlook 2010 is available in 64-bit and therefore the connector should be available in 64-bit. This is a basic expectation.
I don’t agree it’s a geek thing, and I’d say it’s an additional marketing opportunity for LinkedIn.
x64 x64 please!
AND
once OL for mac shows up (any day now?) we’re really looking forward to that integration as well.
Because this creates new contacts imported from Linkedin in a separate contact folder, you need to merge them to remove duplicates.
The best way seems to be to drag the contact from your main contacts folder, into your Linkedin folder. Outlook should identify that the contact already exists in the destination folder, and will prompt you to update and merge the details.
Since Linkedin doesn’t normally provide you with telephone numbers, etc., this will take the ones in your contacts folder and put them into your Linkedin contact, whilst retaining the Linkedin contact’s link to the Linkedin profile for other Linkedin updates, including status updates.
It also seems that if you then move that contact OUT of the Linkedin folder into your main contacts folder, you get a new ribbon bar icon “Update”, which will fetch updates from Linkedin for the contact.
For those who are seeing duplicate contacts, this seems to work to get rid of those duplicates without losing information.
Wow… Fabrice…
This is a professional blog, so I’m going to keep it professional.
BETA… look it up. 64-bit… do a little research into how long 64bit applications have been available to the public (outside of Antivirus applications) –OH.. and Windows is an OPERATING SYSTEM .. not an application.
For 99.99% of users, the 64bit version of Outlook is not only NOT needed, but its capabilities will NOT be used. Do you create office documents larger than 2GB? Not many do… (there are other reasons to move to the 64 bit version of office, but for most of us… thats the primary reason it would be required.)
**From an IT perspective, upgrading your Organization to Office 2010 64bit right now would be a recipe for a whopper of a headache… More power to ya if thats what you are up to…Or if somone did that at your Organization…
For you 64bit people – Do any of your other Plugins work? Live Meeting? Webex? Adobe? Others? Most won’t, at least not yet.
During BETA testing, issues like the ones raised by Graham and Denis … Those are issues that will be addressed, and will assist in this product moving beyond BETA and into Final. (which will then allow the LinkedIn group to start working on the 64bit version…
)
well, 64bit connector for facebook is out today and working. so, keep on going with excuses of why linkedin cannot do it…
Really need a x64 version of this….looking forward to it when it’s available…the new FaceBook social connector works nice….
Now Facebook and Windows Live support 64 Bit with the new update to OSC so the argument that no other provider is 64 bit is now wrong.
Now its Linkedin and Myspace are the only two who do not support 64 bit.
+1 for the 64 bit Linkedin, Please!
I am one of the 99% that does not need 64 bit Office but use it and by using it push demand for 64 bit. If it is not there then I cannot use it.
Since I am not depended on plugins and this is just extra information that could be helpful but I will wait a year or two when 64 bit comes out.
Does LinkedIn have plans to release a 64 bit version of the Outlook Social Connector now that Microsoft has released the new version of Outlook Social Connector, as well as 64 bit versions of the Facebook and Windows Live Messenger Outlook Social Connectors?
We are rolling out 64 bit office 2010 company wide to avoid having to redo an entire rollout in a year or two. Vendors with plugins that integrate who don’t come to the party we kick out and find alternative vendors we can work with. Amazing how fast someone fixes their application when you apply that sort of pressure. Whats the point of a 64 bit OS if your apps can’t utilize it properly, and @ Keith yes my users do actually need it, you obviously haven’t worked in Financial Services before. If everyone had stuck with your mentality we would all still be running 16 bit DOS apps.
Yes where is it… 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit, 64, bit, 64 bit
Many of us have bought or received the Office 64 bit version, including Outlook. So uninstaling office, buying new license and reinstallin is not an option, at least not for the LinkedIn connector.
I believe that more and more systems will be shipped with a preinstalled version of Office 64 bit, so if you want to be practical about your connector – a 64 bit is a MUST.
Bump for x64 version! I didn’t think much of the social connector for outlook in beta, but now that I have facebook integration I see the light. It would be a real boon to have my business contact’s activities in my business email.
Please release a 64 bit client ASAP. I have been with out my LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar for months, since having to upgrade to Windows 7 and Office 2010 64 bit.
Same issue as people like Zac, but I am using Outlook 2003 on 32-bit WinXP Professional. I cannot connect through the OL Connector; the application reports that the password is wrong but I have no difficulty logging into LinkedIn using a web browser. I’m behind a firewall and need to use a proxy configuration script to make my browser work.
I think this is a fantastic idea though.
One more vote for 64 bit connector.
Come on Linkedin get your act together and the get 64 bit version of OSC out ASAP, Live messenger and Facebook both have 64 bit versions and they are less likely to have 64 bit users. These days it’s easy to develop on both platforms in tandem, so there is no excuse!!!!
lol… keep pushin’…
PS. My 32bit (Office) works GREAT!! (Running on Windows 7 64bit) — And ALL of my Plugin’s WORK! (Live Meeting, Social Connector-FB,Live&LinkedIn, AND others!)
Oh.. and I can do everything you can do! ;o)
I’m trying to install this on Outlook 64 bit. Is it meant to work yet?
As we all await the 64 bit client, is there any way to find out quickly when you release it? An email list? Will you post it to the blog so an RSS feed will pick it up?
Where is the x64 connector???
I too would like to see a 64 bit version sooner rather than later! Are we harassing the right team here, is there something else blocking the development or distribution that a bit of social network pressure might help resolve?
Also waiting for the x64. Hopefully when it gets released someone will post a comment here – so that I’ll get notified…
QUESTION(s): Does anyone from LinkedIn actually monitor this blog? Is it standard procedure at LinkedIn to create a blog just for people to complain, but not give answers or offer solutions/time frames?
This is one of the poorest excuses for a Blog I think I’ve ever seen.
Good Luck to everyone that is holding out for the 64bit client. Complaining in this blog appears to be like “splashin water on a duck”… no effect. – I’m Out.
@Keith- We do monitor it. I actually wrote a response a little while back on one of our blog posts that we are currently working on the 64 bit version and it will be available sometime in the near future. Sorry i didn’t put it on this one as well.
Derek Homann
My problem is that this still wont work under a proxy server. Linkedin customer service, as well as business solutions can provide no answer. Boy would it be usefull if they could get it at least functional through a proxy server…
Yes where is it… 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit64, bit, 64 bit 64bit, 64 bit, 64bit, 64 bit, 64, bit, 64 bit
Derek – The last time you posted ANYTHING was APRIL… Yep… Your ALL over it.
PS. It should be noted in your responses if you work for LinkedIn so that people who are posting KNOW when someone from LinkedIn is responding to their inquiries. –Just sayin’… it would be nice.
@Keith- Sorry for the confusion, but I actually posted the response on another one of our posts. I should have posted it here as well.
Just for clarification, yes, our team is working on a 64 bit model and it will be released in the near future (don’t have an exact date yet).
Derek Homann
LinkedIn Product Specialist
64bit Linkedin – WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?
it’s been more the four months…
64 bit outlook connector …. I need too
This will definitely make work easier and manageable than before. As now we have professional network within Microsoft outlook. Keep sharing such relevant information in future.
I have still problems to log in
Windows 7 32bits/Connector 32 bits
Still message username and/or password not okay!!
Who can help?
64-bit available yet?
Add 1 more to the 64-bit request pile.
Yes almost everyone is on 64bit now. Create 64 bit version!!!
Yep – need 64-bit. Come on linked-in – program!
Unfortunately this plugin does not work with Office 2010 x64!!!
64-Bit….nada works. Is there a 64-bit version in the works? ping me when it’s out.
64 bits please. OL 2010 64 bits is wonderfully quick, using all my resources. The want for a 64 bits version illustrates the value of the LinkedIn Connector. We’re hooked
I’m waiting for 64bit version for 2010 outlook release of the Linkedin social connector
Yes please we need x64 version !
Please… Please… 64 bits version needed!!!!
When are we going to be able to download a 64bit version for Outlook 2010 64bit?
Also waiting for the 64-bit version. Would really appreciate it if this could be developed soon. I see a lot of excuses in this blog from the team not to provide it but the fact simply is that many people do use x64 Office products. In our office we have 30 people using x64, all on LinkedIn and nobody can use the connector. What a pity ….
Linked In created a tremendous service based on connections that adds value to my consulting practice…until now…outlook needs to be connected to Linked In.
OSC 64-bit please…a periodic update would be extremely helpful to our internal IT planning.
+1 64bit
I’m waiting for 64bit version for Linkedin social connector as well.
+1 for 64-bit Outlook support. And while you’re at it, might as well get 64-bit IE compatibility done
Yes, please compile your connector for 64 bits. True, a lot of people around here are geeks most have 64 bit versions of Office 2010 installed so please explain to us again the reason to ignore our requests? I doubt most people are taking your “use the 32 bit version of Office 2010″ suggestion seriously.
+1 for 64-bit version! Please!
I’m adding my voice to the requests for a x64 LinkedIn Connector!
The majority of OS currently is Windows 7 64-bit and because of Office 2010 64-bit availability there are a majority of 64-bit systems.
So we have already 64-bit connectors for HotMail, Facebook and Windows Live, only LinkedIn has no 64-bit connector?! The 32-bit connector is not working with 64-bit OS and Apps like Outlook!
So I’m wondering why 64-bit LinkedIn Connector is not available?
/Thomas
64-bit version where are you???
+1 vote for 64-bit version… actually quite shocked it doesn’t exist yet.
We are living in the year 2010 and a 64bit connector should be something usual!
Have this installed on 3 machines, all running Outlook 2010 (Bista and W7). Connector works fine with FB and WL, but it just wont pull any feeds or updates from LinkedIn….anyone experiencing this problem? Pulls the LinkedIn pictures no problem, also downloads contacts fine, but no feeds or updates.
When will the 64bit connectors be available?? I miss it really badly!
Im using Outlook 2010 64-bit and cannot install this connector. Is there a 64-bit version available?
I need the 64-bit version; pleeeeeeeeeeease !
One more for 64 bit. An update on when to expect it would be nice.
+1 for 64-bit version! Please!
Great tool, but please let it look for secondary or third e-mail-addresses to get the profile information.
Yes, can someone please prioritise the release the market would appreciate…
Has LinkedIn found a fix for the connector picking up the wrong contact? I belong to two different college alumni associations and the connector has linked the email from one college to the LinkedIn from another.
Not having a 64-bit version is blocking wider use and acceptance of LinkedIn with Outlook. Is this being actively worked or has it been deprioritized?
Where is 64-bit? This is 2010, not 2000.
What is the ETA for 64-bit?!
+1 for x64 version!
Any news on 64 bit, guys?
We are still waiting…
+1 for x64 version! 64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,64bits,
Please, please, give us 64-bit version!
Yet another requesting 64 bit…
Any idea on a release date?
thx az
When will this be supported for Outlook 2010 64-bit on Windows 7 x64? The Facebook connector works!
Great tool – but one MAJOR issue:
It doesn’t merge w/existing outlook contacts to integrate phone #’s and emails as most people do not have work emails on their LinkedIn profile (or this tool is only pulling their “public” email address). As a result most, if not all, of my contacts are coming up as NOT being connected to me via linked when in fact we are connected.
64 bit is needed. I note that Facebook provides one…
Another vote for 64bit connector. 64bit Office is not a geek-only toy: I bought my laptop with pre-installed Windows 7 and Office 2010 both in 64bit version. So WE NEED A 64BIT VERSION. IT IS NOT A GEEK FREAK.
64 bit please…
+1 for the 64-bit…
Amazing it takes so long for a powerhouse such as LinkedIn to do this.
Most businesses have moved or or moving to 64 bits ; it’s be LinkedIn benefit to produce a working version of the plug-in…
Another user who just gets “invalid username or password” when trying to use this tool. Is there a fix yet?
would love to run it, but alas, i am on 64bit outlook.
One more vote for 64-bit connector, I just got a new 64-bit computer and I miss my LinkedIn Connector …
64 bit por favor! You should at least have a sign up to be notified by email when this is available so I don’t have to keep checking back.
+1 for x64 version of LinkedIn Social Connector
how hard can it be to compile a 64bit connector?? x64 urgently needed!!
64-bit version please!!
It would be better if you indicated the user has a LinkedIn profile and if you have already connected with them using the number indicator from the old outlook LinkedIn plug-in.
+1 for x64 version.
Need x64
64-bit version please!!!
+1 Need 64 bit!
x64? Is anybody listening???
It’s not that user friendly when many users are begging for the x64 and nobody reponds at all!
Please let us know if an x64 is an option in the near future or not.
@TU- Sorry for the lack of communication. We have actually responded to comments in a blog already saying that we are working on the 64 bit version. We don’t have a specific time frame as of yet, but development is underway as we speak so give us a little bit of time and we’ll get you what you have been waiting for.
Derek Homann
LinkedIn Product Specialist
+1 for 64bit connector. Come one, did you not expect this????
Hi
I have outlook 2010 64 bit version and when i install linkedin, it doesn’t showup in outlook. I think their is a compatability issue.
Regards
Sunny
+1 for 64bits support
I am not going to wine about the 64 bit version not being available. I am using 64 bit Outlook not because I need to but because I choose to. Blackberry already took a hit when they too decided 64 bit Outlook wasn’t a priority. Yes, understand creating a 64 bit app isn’t trivial so if it takes longer understand, but just give people some indication when it might be ready. The Outlook connector is a nice to have but no one needs it to survive…
64-bit please!!!
Awaiting 64 bit – to help build my network. (aka your users)
Thanks!
+1 for x64 version. Feels like you’ve totally forgotten about this…
+1 for x64 version.
+1 for 64-bit version
+1 x64 needs
+1 for 64-bit version
+1 for 64-bit
+1 for x64
Any more for 64-bit ???
Hi,
I would like to share my experience with one company developing add ins for Office. They actually had 64 bit version ready, I found a problem and asked for support, support team contacted me the same day and collected needed data. Next day new official build with bug corrected was published. If this isn’t customer care I do not know what is. I’m not sure that they have 75 mil. user base as LinkedIn has…
+1 for 64 bit
Any news on 64-bit yet! It’s just can’t be that hard!
+1 for 64-bit please!
+1 for 64-bits. I can’t believe Facebook has it before LinkedIn.
+1 for the 64 bit. please notify me?
It would be great to have Linkin back in my Outlook 64bit. Great tool but missing since I converted to 64. Using Xobni as a substitute until Linkin delivers 64. To be fair to Linkin, Gist does not have 64-bit either. But Xobni 64 bit works great!
+1 for 64-bit. Surprised we have to ask for that.
Seriously, just change the compilation options to 64bit from 32bit and put us out of our misery….
+1 for 64bit release of connector.
+1 if someone takes the time to harvest the people posting comments on here re: 64b and notifies them when it’s ready.
Hey guys,
get bought by xing and finally provide a 64-bit version, PLEASE!!!
This is so lame…
Thanks for the overwhelming number of comments for the 64 bit version!
We’re listening and I’ve passed on your feedback to Elliot and team.
Mario from LinkedIn
+1 for 64-bit!
Come one, the first “complaints” about the lack of a 64-bit connector date from February 2010. How hard can it be!?
+1 for 64-bit
And in the meanwhile I suggest add a note to the download page saying 32-bit only available at the moment, rather than people having to rummage around to find this blog.
+1 for 64-bit – why is it so hard to produce a 64 bit version? there is clearly demand.
When will this work with Window 7 64 bit and Office 2010 64 bit? This set up works for the Facebook/Outlook connect but not LinkedIn.
we need the 64 bit version.
Dear Derek Homann,
Thank you for telling us that you were working on the 64 bit version. I am sorry to hear you do not have a specific time frame for it is release.
You asked for a little bit of time on Sep 24, just about a month ago. That just about a little time in my book
We are still eagerly waiting for it.
Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you.
+1 for 64-bit!
Cheers,
Tooraj
PS. Anyone wants to run a poll for the 64-bit connector?
Let’s have the 64-bit version. It’s almost 2011!
C’mon.. Social Connector 64bit please..
+1 for 64bit.
+ Advertising, and support on 64bit release.
Like others I have also been waiting a very long time for the 64 bit version of the social connector.
Can we have an update on the development progress?
Need any beta testers?
Cheers,
Ian
+1 for 64 bit
+1 for the 64 bit outlook connector.
Is there a way to notify me?
We’re in 2010! How is it possible that developing an add on for Outlook in 64 bits takes 9 months!!!
Somehow my last (long) comment has disappeared from the blog?
A Question for the LinkedIn dev’s: Could you at least make a comment here, as to approximately when or IF the Outlook Connector for Office 64-bit will be released?
Then we can make an informed choice of whether or not to replace our current Office Installations with the 32-bit version – to get all the very nice features of the LinkedIn add-in that we are missing so much!
Regards,
Michael
+1 for the 64 bit outlook connector.
When will we have it for Entourage on a MAC?
no x64 yet?
It still doesn’t work with ms outlook 64bit right? : |
+1 for x64 plugin.
+1 for x64 plugin
Outlook 2011 Mac please! Loved it on 2010 for Windows.
Whats the problem with 64bit? It works for me ok.
@Anton – 64bit Outlook as well as 64bit Windows? Unless they’ve done a stealth release, then yes, 64bit windows isn’t an issue, 64bit Outlook is a whole other story (that we’re still waiting on for an ending).
@Anton. We are specifically talking about support for the 64-bit version of Office 2010. The social connector still is not available. For us this is a major issue preventing a company-wide rollout of Office 2010 x64.
Hey Anton,
How about a little more information?
It works for me doesn’t really help anyone else.
What OS are your running?
I am running Win7 64bit
What office version are you running?
I am running Office 2010 ProPlus 64bit
When I intall the LinkedIn Social connector it doesn’t run, come up or do anything.
I beleive this is the same problem that everyone else on this post is experiencing.
Thank-you in advance
When is this going to be out for W7 64bit & Outlook 2010?????
+1 64bits please.
Stop deleting my messages, dont try to make this matter smaller then it is.
I have to agree that the inability of outlook to recognize more than one email address is a major problem. The social connector is supposed to help us consolidate our contact information, so make it happen. The social connector should parse all of the contact’s email addresses to pull in the feeds, not just the first one.
Since Windows 7, personal computer is now a 64 bits world. Since Windows 2008, server computer was a 64 bits world. Wake up!
Many users may still use 32 bits, the world is going forward, and the shift is clearly done. Not being there already give a very bad impression of LinkedIn.
It seam that you are linkedOUT…
64 bits connector now or never.
x64 connector for Outlook 2010? Cmon guys!
+1 64bits please.
+1 on the 64bit outlook connecter.
Daniel Graversen
When is the 64bit outlook connector going to be available?
64 bits pretty please, pretty soon if possible
I try to add social network using Outlook 2010 64 bit, the installation end with no errors, but I cant see Linkedin in outlook, can it be becuse I have 64 bit, is there solutions?
+1 on the 64 bit connector
It is way overdue…
We need the x64 connector… Please
I am waiting for it to be out for windows 7 64 bit!
Are we going to get a 64 bit Linked-IN Social connector for Outlook 2010 soon?
+1 on the 64 bit connector
Works great except I don’t have a LinkedIn Contact folder. It shows up in the addressbook but no separate contact folder. Suggestions?
Please release the x64 client.
Also, it might be good to update the installer package to let the user know that the package will not work for x64 systems.
That is a quick fix to help people not waste cycles on trying to get this x32 package to work with x64 Outlook.
Kind regards,
RJ
@Derek Homann (and the LinkedIn team)
On July 26th, 2010 you posted that the 64 bit connector “will be released in the near future (don’t have an exact date yet).”
Then on September 27th, 2010 you posted that “development is underway as we speak so give us a little bit of time and we’ll get you what you have been waiting for.”
It is now almost a year after the 32 bit connector was released, over five months after stating the 64 bit would be released in the “near future”, and over 3 months since stating the 64 bit version was in development and would be available in a little while.
What gives?
Either you are developing software and have a some idea of the quantity of work and the velocity of your team , and when you expect to go to beta, and when you expect to release, or you are simply lying to the community.
If you can’t give us a specific month, can’t you even give us what quarter the release is planned for, or whether it is even planned for 2011 at all? …. If you don’t have a clue what month, quarter, or year the project will be complete, I would be happy to recommended a number of folks on LinkedIn that can improve your development process so that you can have reasonable idea of how to land a project on time and on budget.
Need x64-bit version…
How long it can take to re-write a 1.11MB x32-bit code into x64-bit one??? Or maybe magnificent LinkedIn Developer Team doesn’t have enough resources or maybe – Oh, My G-d!!! – Knowledge????????????
And a Happy New Year to LinkedIn from disappointed users…
For everyone looking for the 64 bit connector, please go to the following URL to download it. We plan on putting it up on the site shortly, but until then, please go here to download it:
https://download.linkedin.com/desktop/osc/en/latest/bin/LinkedInOutlookConnector_x64.exe
Also, thank you for being patient while we were working on this. It took longer than expected but it’s finally here.
-Derek
Derek,
thank you!
-Eric
Thanks guys!
It’s working perfectly! Next week will finally start deployment of this plugin throughout the organization, because we have a lot of x64-bit Office users.
Derek, works a treat!! Thanks!!!
x64 finally! Thank you!
Derek, Thanks a lot!!!
It realy works! Great!
Next week we’ll start deployment of this plugin throughout our company! And we have a lot of users running x64 Office!
Great work!
The new 64 bit version available at the URL bellow work fine for me.
http://download.linkedin.com/desktop/osc/en/latest/bin/LinkedInOutlookConnector_x64.exe
Thanks!
Works!
Two questions:
What is the difference between the “linkedin social connector” and the “linkedin toolbar”?
How do I get the “linkedin contact folder in outlook updated” when using the social connector?
About time, works great.
A lesson from this would be about setting client expectations and providing updates on the progress.
Is anyone else having an issue seeing the toolbar?
Did not work. Are there any compatibility issues – like with xobni?
Hi!
I am still waiting for the sync solution where linkein pictures can be synced directly into the Outlook contact. Plaxo has this functionality, but would I prefer to use LinkeIn.
Also it would be nice if the LinkedIn sync could update the Outlook contacts directly, instead of making a separate folder system.
The LinkedIn Outlook Connector I have downloaded is named, “LinkedInOutlookConnector.download” which is an invalid file extension. What is it supposed to be?
Many thanks for the Linkedin x64 connectors !!!
Maybe LinkedIn remembers to add the link to the download page so any user could be able to download it instead of wasting a lot of time digging for the x64 version.
I have installed the 64- bit version on a 64-bit W7 PC running 64-bit Office and the add-in is unstable.
I also have the 32-bit version installed in Outlook 2007 at work and the add-in is always disabled as it keeps crashing.
I installed LinkedIn Outlook Connector last year or before. I’ve been frustrated because with the version I had a LinkedIn graphic appeared right above the scroll arrow for reading emails and if I got to close to the LI graphic when I wanted to scroll and read an email, Outlook would start searching for the email sender’s LI profile. The result – slow – a delay of several seconds each time it happened!
I just installed the Outlook Social Connector and re-installed a current version of LinkedIn Outlook Connector, so I have high hopes for performance improvement.
i have been pleased after reading this blog the knowledge which has
been provided via this blog is simply tremendous.
i really appreciate the blogger for doing this effort.
Hello,
To avoid confusion, on the LinkedIn for Outlook official download page
http://www.linkedin.com/outlook
there could be also a separate link for the x64 version of the connector (e.g. the one @Bruno Déry referred).
Regards,
b.
Hi, just installed, but it stops downloading contacts at 212 (whereas I have 500+ contacts). I tried to reset / reload the contacts but it gets stuck at 212 again. I checked the folder data view and I found a line with 212
Any ideas how to download all contacts to Outlook?
Thx: Balazs
This is great stuff. However, its quite difficult to have an additional Contacts folder in Outlook .
One more issue: either the Outlook Social connector or the Linkedin connector kept adding empty News Feed folders to Outlook (20-25 of them each day). So I uninstalled both connectors. Will return once the issues are solved and the solution is stable.
It would be nice if a new LinkedIn connection would automatically download into your Outlook contacts. After the initial install all of you LinkedIn contacts are imported into Outlook. After that you have to take a manual step to do that, then copy and paste the LinkedIn url into the Outlook contact record and then save in Outlook. That should all be automatic.
I am wondering if this will also enable me to use the “grab it” button which is one feature I did enjoy with the original add-on for LinkedIn to be added to Outlook.
Thank you for taking this into consideration as you continue designing this neat add-on.
Darren
I have downloaded and installed the LinkedIn Outlook Social Network Connector on a Windows 7 x64 bit Outlook 2010 system. After a successful installation (i.e no shown errors) I do not see the LinkedIn Social Connector listed in Social Network Accounts of my Outlook 2010.
I have removed the connector via Control Panel and reinstalled.
Mario Sundar:
Thanks a ton! Glad to hear 64-bit office is getting some love.
Thank you. Been waiting for the x64 version for a long time. Great to finally have it running.
How about one for Windows Phone 7?
Kind REgards
Riccardo
It adds some nice functionality. Howvere, It is not integrated well. Having a secondary Linkedin contact folder is 1) MICKEY MOUSE 2)I don’t automatically have new contacts (added into the main contact folder)available on Linkedin to invite. And now that the toolbar is no longer supported I have to manually add these new contacts into my Linkedin account. 3) Contact information in the new linkedin folder is incomplete. Most contacts don’t have phone or address information and in many cases the email address that people use goes to a personal email address and not their business address. Overall I’m not impressed.
The old toolbar offered better integration to the main outlook database that I use all the time.
Although it worked well for a few days, I can no longer get new contacts in the Linked In contacts folder. Is there a way to rest?
I like all of the new features but I really want the Grab Tool back. I also liked the feature where it looked for people to add to my contacts list.
@Andy,
You can still load the LinkedIn Toolbar for Outlook to get the Grab feature back.
I would like to see the Grab Tool become avaliable again. That was one of the most useful features!
I agree fully with Steve.
The Outlook SC for LinkedIn is not a replacement at all for the OutlookLIToolbar. In someways there may be an overlap but they are far more complementary.
By discontinuing the LI toolbar the professional business networkers have gone a mile backwards in truly managing your contacts and connections.
The tool was essential for business and administration. I suggest LI to refocus this decision to the needs of its members and only discontinue the toolbar once at least the same functions are available in the Outlook SC.
The other point is on the confidence and dependency one can put in the Outlook SC: the informatinis not only not synchronized with the existing contacts in Outlook, it does not have all the information that would be expected, though LI servers have far more details available (I still don’t understand why that is not provided when evendownloading a biz card), but more important, we can not rely on the Outlook SC because the number of contacts reflected is not correct – so missing quite a lot of contacts, even after 1 month use – and I see the number fluctuating all the time.
I suggest LI first discovers with a set of important users to re-evaluate, encompass/integrate the required functions in the Outlook SC for LI (minimum equal to what was in the LI Toolbar) and only than discontinue the tool.
Much appreciate to reconsider this dramatic change.
Best regards
Joris Claeys
ACCELERATE-gscs
CAPix-Asia
Port[Expertise]
Hi Guys,
i have installed the 64 bit version of OSC – problem is that it disables Facebook – it seems I can have Facebook or Linkedin but not both. Any ideas?
Oops didn’t realise Toolbar had been withdrawn – sorry.
Maybe LI are working with MS to push people towards the SharePoint version.
What are people’s views on this?
Hi –
I’ve just installed the new connector for outlook 2010, but 1 great (or really critical) feature is the grab, which seems to be gone.
Please add it back.
Regards,
Amol
I’ll just repeat this comment:
no go for Outlook 2010, 64 bit version. Now come one folks. its 2010, 32 bit is so 1990′s
I must say I am a fan of the deprecated toolbar.
The integration between my contact folder and LinkedIn allowed me to have my address list centered in just one folder that can be synchronized, for instance, with my mobile phone.
The new Social Connector simply doesn’t allow that.
For me the tool does not work, it doesn’t show up as an available network in Outlook Social Connector. I’m NOT using 64 bit, just simple Outlook 2003 on Windows XP.
But
My Outlook and Windows are Dutch versions. Could that be an issue?
How to solve this?
Hi,
Looking for some help with the Linkedin Social Connector..
I am using Vista Enterprise Edt, with Outlook 2010..
I’ve installed Linkedin Social Connector, I can view my contacts, but I cannot see the add button for new contacts or any feeds / updates from Linkedin etc…
Is there a support group for this product?
I keep getting an error message when trying to download the tool. Please help!!!!
linkedin outlook 2010 connector not working with windows 7 ultimate 64 bit and outlook 2010 professional plus 64 bit
i have tried to install so many times, but not working. i am not getting linkedin at all on the social network list of outlook. i have installed osc-kb2289116-fullfile-x64-en-us.exe and LinkedInOutlookConnector.exe downloaded today from the microsoft and linkedin website respectively.
Still does not work (although installs without complaint) on Windows 7 x64. Please can this be addressed !
Does not show as a network provider ni the Social Network Accounts window. Windows Live Messenger installed without issue.
I’m using Office 2010 64-bit. How can I make LinkedIn Social connector to work? I’ve tried severl times now, with no luck
unfortunatly, it won’t work with Outlook 2010 64bits
It is not creating a linked-in contact folder as explained in the blog or video – how do I enable this important function?
Is there a way to do a slient install of the LinkedIn connector?
honestly, this new approach blows. The “killer” part of the old app (toolbar) was the integration with outlook contacts. Being able to synchronize to one contact db, and sync to phone, etc. in one neat integrated way is what made the whole thing hang together very neatly. It seems to be that the new approach is an attempt to dis-intermediate a standalone contacts db in outlook and get you to throw everything on linkedin. Not practical. The rest of the integration is eye candy as far as I’m concerned. Very disappointed. I uninstalled completely as all it did for me was slow my system down.
64-bit?
It would be great if their was a Deployable version of the plug-in.
Included in the exe is the /S swtich, which still requires the user to hit okay to install. Thus Silent deployments do not work.
Link for X64 bit (add _x64 to the file name of the 32 bit installer..
https://download.linkedin.com/desktop/osc/en/latest/bin/LinkedInOutlookConnector_x64.exe
ussf.exe switch finder found the /S switch
I have added phone numbers to the linkedIn contacts folder but it appears that on syncs, it is overriding and thus delete any additional information back to just email. Any clue on how to NOT delete phone info in Outlook 2010
Just want to add another voice to the thread:
It’s unbearable to have a separate linkedin folder.
– makes duplicates of what might already be in another folder
– screws up indexing (i.e.xobni)
– screws up active sync / mobile devices
given that contact sync has been conquered for over a decade, it boggles the mind that you thought this would be acceptable. The only thing I an think of is that you are deliberately trying to make it hard for us to use “your” data.
I really expected more from linkedin.
I’ll uninstall. And, I’ll pass on paying for any kind of premium service.
Has the issue with a separate LinkedIn contacts folder in Outlook 2010 been addressed?
64 bit connector please!!!!
please give us de 64 bit plug in
Running Outlook 2007 XP 32-bit. Not impressed.
No indication that it ever integrated itself with Outlook at all. No prompts, no changes in my UI.
Given other complaints about the functionality here I’m not pursuing this further.
Uninstall via Add/Remove Programs went smoothly however so no complaints there at least.
It doesn’t seem to be working with Outlook 2010 – is that correct?
Why oh why has the GRAB button been disabled with this “enhancement”? That was by far the most valuable feature of the LI toolbar for outlook. Has anyone found a solution to this in Outlook 2010?
Is there any way to force sync to update the Outlook connector with LinkedIn contacts? It seems to not update with all of my contacts
“I’ve installed Linkedin Social Connector, I can view my contacts, but I cannot see the add button for new contacts or any feeds / updates from Linkedin etc… ”
Same for me in Outlook 2003 32-bit. Working corporate on mailserver. (maybe the reason).
want 64 bit convertor, some one provide it.
Hello!!
This was a great post and very helpful as well.
Thanks
Rishikesh
Eco treats
Hello!!
This was a great post and very helpful as well.
Thanks
Rishikeshyoga
yoga
64 bit!!!
Agree with Derek, not impressed at all – very poor install process, unable to get this working and won’t be pursuing this further either.
What ahppened to the Grab tool capabilites. This was Great!
I am also unable to get this to work on 64-bit Outlook. In looking at the folder where the _64 install placed the dll, it the dll is dated 10/12/2010. That seems odd to me. Control Panel does show it as installed and the Facebook social connector works fine with Outlook, so that plumbing is intact. I really wish this would work!
Awful! I waited months from the time I got the email notice in February that this was available. I wanted to wait till all the kinks were out. I wish I had read the comments above before I installed this today. It slows down my computer, hovering over the LinkedIn icon stalls my computer and when it finally connects only brings me to my own page. I miss GRAB, a totally great function. I am going to uninstall right now. I am using Windows 7.
I’m running Outlook 2010 and Windows 7. I can get outlook to make a folder called “LinkedIn”, but how do I get my normal outlook contacts to get the pictures off of linkedin? Copying them from one folder to the other works, but isn’t this automated?
I would like to talk with someone about bringing back the grab feature. That is a critical value feature piece to loading new contacts in an efficient way.
Thanks for the installation steps! Looking forward to using this new version of outlook!
The basic stuff of 64 bit on Outlook 2010 does not work. Pretty worthless
Hi There,
How often does OSC refresh the LinkedIn contact folder in my Outlook 2010?
What happens if I move a contact from my LinkedIn Contact folder in my Outlook to another Contact folder? How soon OSC will re-creat in on LinkedIn contact folder, if at all?
Can I control or configure the refresh interval (in theregistry?)?
Thanks,
Kobi
Has anyone solved the multiple contacts folder issue yet?
It’s creating havoc with mobile sync etc!
Cheers,
Mark
Any news on this (consolidated folder etc.)? – If it is challenging now, how will it look when APple’s iCloud goes live???
Thanks and best regards,
Michael
I installed the LinkedIn plugin and most things are working but I am not seeing activity for people in my company (internal Exchange). Is there something we need to do to allow these updates?
This is embarrassing from LinkedIn staff. It seems nobody cares to announce that the 64-bit version is already available.
http://download.linkedin.com/desktop/osc/en/latest/bin/LinkedInOutlookConnector_x64.exe
Why can we not get the 64 bit plugin yet? This is like someone offering you a brand new Cadillac, but you get no engine with it. C’mon where’s the beef, I mean the 64 bit plug-in? We are in August, MS & LinkedIn should already have it out.
Please anybody help me in order to …
Create a web application using any technology that accepts the name of a person/organization and displays all relevant information of the person/organization from linkedin. Also, there should be a link to view the user/organization profile in linkedin.
Good work Martin, this lack of 64 bit has been driving me mad. Thanks for pointing us in the right driection, seems to be working now on 64 bit.
I have exactly the same problem ‘Ferry Hoes’ has explained in his/her post of May 13