Outlook crashing after attempting LinkedIn social connector fix - changing ProviderURLLogin registry key

Question

I've tried the instructions on this page where, to get the LinkedIn social connector to work again you make a change to your registry. I made the change and as it did for some, it's now causing my Outlook to crash from time to time.

So I'd like to set this back, but I didn't store the original value anywhere.

Does anyone know where I can find the original value for the following registry key?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\SocialConnector\SocialProviders\OscAddIn.LinkedInProvider\ProviderURLLogin

Answer 1

For me, it shows as: https://outlook.linkedinlabs.com/osc/login

In the future, I recommend you backup your registry before you make any changes for this very scenario. You can also automate it by using ERUNT - You can set it up in Task Scheduler to run once a day if you wish:

C:\Windows\Erunt\AUTOBACK.EXE %SystemRoot%\ERDNT\AutoBackup\#Date# sysreg otherusers /noconfirmdelete /noprogresswindow /days:7