Using the Outlook Social Connector to research Dynamics AX contacts
Since you now have your Dynamics AX contacts in Outlook, you can take advantage of some of the Outlook add-ons to automatically search online sources for additional information about them. In this recipe, we will show how you can configure one add-on called the Outlook Social Connector that will search the social networks to find out information about contacts based on their e-mail addresses. The Outlook Social Connector is available in Outlook 2010 and higher. All you need to do is link it to your social accounts.
Getting ready
Before you start walking through this recipe, you will need to make sure that you have the People Pane turned on within Outlook because it will display all of the social research on the contacts. To do this:
Go to the View tab on the Outlook ribbon bar.
Select the drop-down list for the People Pane in the View group and make sure that the Normal option is checked:
How to do it...
To configure the Outlook...