Office 365 + Outlook + My Site Social Connector – Hotfix Released 12/13/11!

December 27, 2011 1 Comment

One of the features I have grown to love in Outlook 2010 is the Social Connector – that window below your emails which you can enable to view aggregations of social network updates (My Site, Facebook, LinkedIn, to name a few) as well as past conversations, calendar items, attachments, and more.

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Up until this month however, if you were a user of Microsoft Office 365, then you could not connect to your My Site hosted on SharePoint Online, you would get this lovely error after entering in all of the credential information:

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Being a user of Office 365 – this was an issue for me, especially since I use the Social Connectors in Outlook daily.

I am pleased to announce, that as of December 13th, 2011,  that it has finally been fixed! You can download and install the hotfix from here (Outlook x64 only): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597051/

Works perfectly now!

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Finally into the Office 365 Beta Program

April 22, 2011 Leave a comment

imageIt seems that Microsoft has done another massive push into the Office 365 Beta program. So, yesterday, after months of waiting, I was finally able to get in. I most likely not be using this blog to market off the benefits (you can find those here: Top benefits), but rather, share my observations.

One neat thing which I did not expect… the Developer Dashboard is part of O365!

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I thought that was a pretty cool inclusion they did for this. After all, this is a hosted version of SharePoint, and they are using FBA to connect to what I can assume is an LDAP database to host accounts.

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Anyhow, more information and observations to come… hopefully some interesting stuff.

At the very least, I now have a *.sharepoint.com subdomain… http://gvaro.sharepoint.com. That’s just cool.

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