That’s two bits of great news, congrats! I’m looking forwarding to getting to work tomorrow and upgrading.

Daniel Raffel, on March 25th, 2009 at 12:49 am

[...] new version doesn’t come with any shiny new features, but it it does have a number of improvements under the hood that let Xobni and Outlook work better together. For instance, Xobni loads faster, loads messages [...]

Xobni no longer in beta! - frankps, on March 25th, 2009 at 4:01 am

I am loving the new version of Xobni.
We use Scalix as an MS Exchange alternative and Xobni v1.6 didn’t like it much.
However with v1.7 everything seems to be working, including the Facebook/LinkedIn intergration which I find really useful. The new performance settings are great too.

I just need to be able to use Xobni in the Windows Live Mail desktop client and then I will be a very happy bunny

thommck, on March 25th, 2009 at 8:13 am

[...] platform by plugging into existing platforms such as Microsoft Outlook raised another $3 million in funding from Blackberry Partners Fund, taking their Series B total to $10 million. (Our previous Xobni coverage [...]

Xobni Gets Another $10 Million, Out of Beta, on March 25th, 2009 at 9:16 am

[...] very useful Microsoft Oulook plug-in that we’ve covered with glowing reviews previously, has droppped its beta tag with version 1.7, released [...]

Xobni Loses Beta Tag, Adds Speed, on March 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am

Just upgraded to 1.7 this morning, and it is blazing fast. Yay! I was struggling with 1.6, as it was really slowing my system down (but I loved it so much I decided it was worth removing it). I’ve noticed that I can now “minimize” the bar without any delay (it often used to freeze up the system), and I no longer get the flickering emails when I hover over a thread. Great work guys!!!

Mark, on March 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am

Oops — correction — “I decided it *wasn’t* worth removing it”.

Mark, on March 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am

Any chance of a Mac Entourage version – I miss xobni since I had to switch to Mac.

Tony, on March 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

[...] These include Microsoft Outlook loading 31 per cent faster, Xobni Profiles loading 42 per cent faster and greater performance controls, according to a company blog post. [...]

Tech Whiz Underground » Xobni releases version 1.7 of email management tool, on March 25th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

Am running 1.4. Apparently did not update automatically. Can I update to 1.7 without reindexing? Or do I start from scratch? If I start from scratch, how do I make sure that my old index is wiped out (to save the space)?

Thanks,

Bob

Bob Davis, on March 25th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

Great news!

PS:
Unfortunately xobni didn’t use the former index and reindex my entire Outlook 2K file … #strange

Phil v. Sassen, on March 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Download works but install fails with “Installer integrity check failure” error.

Wayne, on March 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Yeah I am getting the same error as Wayne. Interesting as well is the fact that the download is almost instantaneous. I’m thinking the installer got overwritten by a bad file.

JoeG, on March 26th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Integrity check fails.

Tried from 3 different browsers from 3 different geographical locations.

filc, on March 26th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

hey guys, our CDN corrupted the installer. It should be fixed now. Get the new version at http://www.xobni.com/download

As for the upgrade – people using V1.4 and above should be able to install teh new version without uninstalling the old one. We will gracefully upgrade, keeping your settings and won’t have to re-index old items.

Best,
Matt

Matt, on March 26th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

I had version 1.6.3. The installer said it need to uninstall the previous version and shutddown Outlook. It appears to be re-indexing everything with a complete re-install. So if there was a way to preserve old settings and indexes I sure didn’t see it.

Wayne, on March 26th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Just upgraded from 1.6 to 1.7 as instructed. When Outlook restarts Xobni sidebar opens but just says loading….. and nothing happens despite waiting 1/2hr. Tried to Index Outlook Mail and message comes up in side bar telling me to “Start Using Xobni” but does not allow me to do anything. Xobni Analytics appears works but nothing else.

tried install process twice and same issue even using new installer!

Any ideas? Missing your app’ already.

Mark, on March 26th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Guys. I am a current Xobni user and just downloaded the v1.7 and it re-indexed. I checked the web pages that link from your blog post and they both seem to go to the same download page, irrespective of whether the person is a current or new user? The whole re-indexing thing drives me crazy as I spent a great deal of time making sure my index is kept tidy and organised with duplicates. This will be the 4th time I have to go through the tidy-up process. Can you please put more focus into avoiding re-indexing because as much as I love the product I’m getting close to giving the next upgrade a miss due to this issue. Please spend some time on this. Thanks.

Paul, on March 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

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QUANTITATIVC - xobni - series b, on March 27th, 2009 at 12:25 am

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Xobni emerges from Beta | Jason Slater Technology Blog, on March 27th, 2009 at 5:50 am

Paul, i’m really sorry to hear the upgrade required re-indexing for you. We spent a lot of time making sure the process would be smooth, so i’m disappointed to hear you didn’t have a great upgrade experience. I’ll reach out to you via email to learn more about what went wrong.

Mark, same for you. i’ll reach out via email.

Best,
Matt

Matt Brezina, on March 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

Fast. Much better than previous version. I am using it on Vista on Thinkpad X60s, never turn on the sharing options with social networking sites. Congratulations to Xobni team, you came through…!

Regards, Crazyfinger

Crazyfinger, on March 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Now a Google map integration would be nice to show the geographical position of the person

–David

David, on March 31st, 2009 at 10:24 am

Hi Guys,

Thanks for this great enhancement, I’ve been a user for quite a while.

This may help you improve the installer:

1) There’s a annoying glitch in the installer program, depending on what name you saved it with.
I saved it with the name: XobniSetup v1.7.exe. Installer crashes with an application error (The instruction xxx referencd memory at yyyy. The memory could not be “read”. OK to terminate, Cancel to debug.

I thought the application was corrupted (and also read about this on the blog), so I waited a week or so. Just downloaded again, same problem.
Because I saw several people succesfully installing the program, I hoped it wouldn’t be a hardware problem on my side…but it’s not .

Renaming the installers filename to xo.exe did the job (probably any one worded filename will do). Still if you’re a user like me, saving version names in the filename, you will run into this silly and (hopefully) unneeded error.

2) Also, I was currently using v1.6.3 build 5342 and the installer detected an ‘older’ version on my PC. I had to confirm the complete remove of Xobni and its components before it installed v1.7. Complete indexing was also needed.
So I guess “just upgrading” is not working (completely) yet.

Still I expect this upgrade to worthwhile, but I really would make sure “just upgrading is possible”.

Cheers,

Geert

Geert, on March 31st, 2009 at 10:57 am

I’m having the same problem as one other person. I updating to V1.7. All I get is “Loading” and it doesn’t stop. I uninstalled and reinstalled (I didn’t care about the re-indexing). Worked fine the first time, but I just rebooted and I’m experiencing the same problem. I went through all of the trouble shooting suggesting before I uninstalled the program the first time. Frustrating, especially given that I did not have any problems with earlier versions of the program!

Frustrated, on March 31st, 2009 at 4:34 pm

@Geert @Frustrated This is great feedback. We’ll share this with QA and they’ll see if they can repro the problem. We’ll ship a fix shortly if we can repro the issue.

thanks,
Matt

Matt, on March 31st, 2009 at 9:06 pm

hi,
it seems that the download link doesn’t work right now. been trying to download with no luck.
Thanks!

eugene, on April 1st, 2009 at 5:38 am

I think I have a similar problem as Geert and Frustrated. Only thing is I don’t even get a “Loading” message. I just never get an interface. Thankfully I saved the 1.4.3 installer!

The interesting thing is, if I use your little repair tool to disable Xobni and restart Outlook, there is then a Xobni menu with the single entry “Enable Xobni.” If I click that the Xobni menu disapears and there is still no Xobni sidebar.

Also, my desktop is set at 120dpi and I wonder if that matters. There are many places in the installer and utility tools where text is cut off or has formatting issues.

JGurtz, on April 1st, 2009 at 8:44 am

I found that Office Communicator stopped working after the upgrade – even though all was good under 1.6 – I had to kill both the outlook & communicator process, re-start both apps and all was good again!

Thanks for the performance improvements

Nick, on April 1st, 2009 at 11:16 am

1.7 install worked like a charm for me. No re-indexing. No hangs. I had even renamed the installer to XobniSetup 1.7.exe (with space) before running. Anyway, from my little vantage point, everything works well.

Thanks millions for the tool. It’s saved me lots of times finding names of people:

“What was that guy’s name? I can’t remember, but he works closely with Tim.”

“Oh, yeah, it was John. Wee-hoo!”

Koeg, on April 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Oops, part of my message didn’t show up above because of how I used brackets. Lemme try again…

“What was that guy’s name? I can’t remember, but he works closely with Tim.”
___click Tim’s name___
___see contacts related to Tim____
“Oh, yeah, it was John. Wee-hoo!”

Koeg, on April 1st, 2009 at 5:33 pm

I’d love to have the ability to delete emails from the XObni slider window. The option should be either permanently or move them to the trash folder.

For example when I track them by Conversation or when searching for emails with key words

Thanks

Harvinder, on April 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm

hi,
unfortunately the downloadlink still doesn’t work for me. i want to try it out….

eugene, on April 3rd, 2009 at 5:42 am

While I loved the beta versions, the “gold” version leaves me cold. It doesn’t work with my 28 .pst files. (I have a lot of mail – almost 6 GB, split to avoid the 2 GB limit in Outlook 2003. This also makes Outlook backups a lot easier.)

If Outlook is running and Xobni is loaded but not active, and I activate Xobni, when I try to access on of my .pst folders I get the following message:

Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. Contact your administrator if this condition persists.

or…

If Xobni is active when I start Outlook, I sometimes get the following message when I try to access a .pst folder:

Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists.

The second problem is intermittent; sometimes it’s only one folder, sometimes it’s all of them. And the “problem” folders don’t seem to have any pattern.

Finally, I don’t have any problems if Xobni isn’t active, but is loaded into memory.

Help! I’ve been suffering with this for a week now – can I go back to the last good beta?

John Focht, on April 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am

Okay, no response – on blog or by direct contact – from Xobni. Not even “I’m sorry you’re having problems, we’re looking into it.” So I’m removing Xobni 1.7.3 from my laptop, and will try to reinstall the last good beta I have. I can’t wait forever.

Wish me luck…

John Focht, on April 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Okay, I completely removed 1.7.3 from my PC, then rebooted, and installed Xobni beta 1.6.3 (build 5625). So far, so good – no problems noted with my .pst folders.

Also, the removal must have been very clean – no complaints from the beta install.

I look forward to the resolution of my issue. (And maybe a quick email from the company, perhaps?) Until then, I’ll happily use beta version 1.6.3 build 5625.

John Focht, on April 6th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Can someone kindly address the issue mentioned a few times above, where following installation all one gets is “loading” ad infinitum. Never had any such issue with any of the betas.

Mark, on April 7th, 2009 at 9:41 am

Hey Mark, John, others, our QA team is currently looking into these and other issues. We have taken feedback from this release, and are rolling it into a refresh release that will be available shortly. Also, we’ll respond on this page if we have specific solutions to the problems you’ve seen.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt Brezina, on April 8th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

Because of a specific environment at work I am running an ‘unsupported OS version’ (Windows 2003 Server) and Office 2007 for desktop needs. Any older version with exception of the new 1.7 was running great. I tried everything I could find to make 1.7 work, but it won’t. The Outlook.exe process takes 100% of CPU and never let’s go. As soon as I disable the add-on it drops to normal CPU usage. I had to go back to 1.6.3 (build 5625) which is rock solid.

Love your product and the troubleshooting guide in your support pages was fabulous. I hope you fix the issues and I continue to load the latest versions.

Like Moku, on April 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

Install went fine, but I keep getting a pop-up to enter a captcha… only there is no captcha and no box to enter text. I have to press “skip” to keep using Xobni and it keeps popping up.

Love the product, keep up the good work!

andy, on April 14th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

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Mobile News » BlackBerry Partners Fund Invests About $3 Million In Outlook Plug-in Xobni, on April 15th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Matt Brezina -

I received another email from “you” yesterday announcing a “new” version of Xobni. Does the “new” version address my problems, or is this another flier for the “gold” version?

John Focht, on April 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

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W-Files » Blog Archive » Office Comunicator 2oo7 R2 “Outlook Integration Error”, on April 16th, 2009 at 4:58 am

One thing that seems to be missing in your excellant product is the version number in the dwonload. I love to be able to check if I have the very latest point release and currently there is no easy way to see this. For instance I have 1.7.3 (build 6685) installed how can I tell from the Xobni home pages if this is the very latest build????

Guy, on April 18th, 2009 at 11:27 am

hey – thanks for xobni and for making it available, it’s really a great tool.

when are you adding task management to xobni?
let’s face it, outlook’s embedded task app is quite crappy…

a.

auro, on April 20th, 2009 at 1:53 am

The installer still says Xobni beta

Thanks for providing this tool… the xobni search really crushes Outlook’s native search.

Lee, on April 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am

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The current version is 1.7.3.6812, and it does NOT fix my problem. How long before another version is issued, and will it address my problem?

John Focht, on May 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

I solved my “loading…” issue: in Add/Remove Programs, uninstall Xobni. A dialog comes up with a few different options. In “Repair”, I removed all the xobni contact info, and.. well it has to re-index, but at least it works!

Seems like there’s some incompatibility between the 1.6 config files and the 1.7

Zac, on May 15th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Okay, an update. Still no joy – 1.7.3.7053 doesn’t work on my system, either. I continue to use 1.6.3.5625 with success.

I think I know why Xobni may have problems with my setup. Remember that I have divided my Outlook messages into multiple .pst folders to get around Outlook’s 2 GB “ceiling” on file size. None of my 28 files exceeds 600 MB, and quite a few are less than 100 MB. This allows me to back them up across our network easily – sometimes daily.

Okay, here’s one possible reason Xobni 1.7.xxxx chokes on my system: in 26 of the 28 .pst files, there is no sub-folder containing the messages – they are in the root directory of each .pst file, sometimes more than 2,000 messages. When you open one of the folders, all messages appear in the root folder; only two folders show under that level (”Deleted Items” and “Search Folders”). Both of these are empty. I did this so that all of my folders are visible in the folder tree view in Outlook.

I look forward to the resolution of my problem. Xobni is a great product – I’d like to use the most current version!

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Well the 1.7.3.7053 seems to have worked in the “just upgrade” scenario. There are still multiple issues with cut off text in the installer, possibly related to the higher 120dpi setting of my desktop. Particularly, during the captcha section, no buttons are visible on the screen. Thankfully, blindly pressing Enter did the trick, but that’s a bit scary.

JGurtz, on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm