I had a customer install Outlook 2007 and realized afterward that the Plugin only supports 2003. I am going to tell him to uninstall and switch back to 2003. I hope that we don't experience any issues with this.
1. What are the plans for a 2007 Plugin? 6 mo? 1 year?
2. Has anyone had to uninstall 2007 and reinstall 2003 to get the plugin working again? Any issues with this?
Regards,
Matt
We have a build that we are testing against Vista and against Outlook 2007. This build uses the latest version of VSTO 2005 that is compatible with both Office 2003 and Office 2007.
http://download.splendidcrm.com/SplendidCRM_Plug-in_for_Outlook_1.4.2634.36765_Beta.exe
Have your customer give this build a try, but make sure to provide feedback.
One thing we noticed on Vista is that Outlook had to be run at least once as Administrator (right click on Outlook icon and select "run as Administrator") after installing the plug-in. We have asked MS for help on this, but we have not heard back.
I have approval to work with the beta release.
Please keep me posted on any newer versions available.
Well, I had some trouble initially. After many failed attempts to merely open Outlook 2007, I noticed that the PIA were not installed. The install you gave me gave the illusion that it was installing the PIA, but it was never laid down. After closer inspection, the install attempted to load PIA 2003 (which went very quickly so I am guessing nothing was done). No PIA entry could be found within Control Panel Add/Remove.
I downloaded the 2007 PIA at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=59daebaa-bed4-4282-a28c-b864d8bfa513&displaylang=en
Then I reinstalled the Plugin (BTW, all dialog screens that refer to the application being installed refer to Splendid Plugin for Outlook 2003 instead of 2007).
I was then able to open Outlook and saw the Splendid Plugin Toolbar and Menu Items. But I had to stop testing here because of changes I had made to the 2003 Plugin.
I have the Source code for the 2003 Plugin. Before we went live, I noticed some strange behavior with the password storage for the Plugin. It is difficult for me to remember what the issue was. I may have made the change because the user's password was not encrypted within the application setup files (within user's local settings for splendidcrm). I do recall strange behavior where I would 'Test Connection' and the connection would work. Then I saved the settings, opened up the settings, attempt to test the connection again and got an error. The plugin was not properly handling the state of the password (the password box was prefilled with the encrypted version of the password or something like that). Anyway, I used my own MD5 encryption utility and encrypted the password for storage within the setup file. I then fixed the logic within the plugin so a user could select the 'Test Connection' button at any time. The short end of it, my soap file is using a different encryption methodology than the new 2007 plugin so logins are failing.
I would like to continue testing the 2007 plugin, but I need to get around this login issue. Any ideas on how we can move forward?
MD5 is a hash algorithm, not an encryption algorithm. We use the exact same MD5 hash as SugarCRM so that our plug-in can login to SplendidCRM or SugarCRM. You cannot change the hash method otherwise you will not be able to login. The password should never be stored in plain text.
The Proxy Password is different. We encrypt and decrypt using the .NET library.