The first official Social Media Connector for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (currently still beta) is present. It’s the connector for LinkedIn.

Other Outlook Social Media Connectors are :

• Outlook Social Media Connector for MySpace

When receiving an e-mail from a person or looking at a contact, you immediately see the Social Media Bar in Outlook. Here it states all the communication you had with that person, conversation history, activities, meetings etc.

Now with the LinkedIn add-on, you can invite someone directly to your LinkedIn profile and you get more information about these contacts.

For the Outlook 2010 beta users – Installation requires you to first uninstall the Outlook Social Connector and click on Not Available. Then download the Social Media Connector (here).

Also download and install the Linked connector.

Note – The connector is currently only available for Outlook 2010 32-bit systems! It also doesn’t include the Sharepoint 2010 connection.

Problem

When you’re building (or already) have a active/passive Exchange 2007 cluster and you try to move the cluster to the other node, it’s possible you receive an error like this :

The installation on node ‘NODE’ is inconsistent. ConfiguredVersion=, UnpackedVersion=8.2.176.2. An upgrade might not have completed successfully.

As the error already explains, there is a version problem. To understand this problem you need to know a little bit about the installation steps Exchange does while installing. Continue reading »