When you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector and have the Hotmail Live account data file set as your default data file, any Social Connector provider that creates a local contact folder won’t work as expected. Specifically, online contacts won't be synced to Outlook and the people pane will show only email, not profile photos...
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Tip 941: Problems using Outlook’s Social Connector with the Outlook Hotmail Connector
Tip 938: Outlook Hotmail Connector Sync Issues
The fix for this problem was pushed out to the servers om Dec 18 2011 and verified as working on most of the server clusters. If you are still having problems, let us know. We're been seeing reports over the past few weeks that Outlook Connector is not downloading old mail. This is caused...
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Tip 928: Move Outlook’s Calendar into Windows Live Calendar
How to move your appointments from your default Outlook Calendar into the Hotmail Live Calendar using the Outlook Connector.
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Tip 902: Outlook Connector Contact Sync Bug (Fixed)
The Contact sync bug is now fixed. Update from Gabe : The Outlook and Hotmail teams have identified the bug that is causing Contacts not to sync. The workaround is to populate a URL in the “Web page address:” field for the Contact. The Product Team is working on a Hotmail server bug fix...
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Hotmail Connector Error Code 1133
If you are receiving the Hotmail Connector error 1133 when you sync your Hotmail account to Outlook, try the following solution. Close Outlook Open Windows Explorer to the data file location (see below for path) Create a new folder and move the contents in the \Outlook directory to the new folder Open Outlook and...
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Tip 889: Outlook Hotmail Connector and HTTPS
As of late last week, an updated Outlook Connector was released that supports the HTTPS protocol. Previously, enabling HTTPS on Hotmail Live accounts would result in the following error when attempting to connect with the Outlook Connector: Error: 3202. Server. HTTPS is turned on for the web but not for this program. ‘ If...
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Outlook Connector & online view bug
When you send a message using the Outlook Hotmail Connector then log into the account online and review the Sent folder, you expect to see the names (or addresses) of the person the message was sent to. Users are complaining about an apparent bug in the new Connector (14.2) because the sent folder shows...
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Hotmail Error 4102
Note: This error may be fixed in the newest Hotmail Connector. We're seeing error 4102 reported more frequently since the release of the new Outlook Hotmail Connector. One astute user tracked it down to using only the Hotmail Connector data store in his profile (or setting it as default) - Outlook created the RSS...
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Configuring Hotmail, Live & MSN accounts in Microsoft Outlook
There are two ways to get your Hotmail / MSN email in Outlook: use the Outlook Hotmail Connector or POP3. Configuring the Outlook Hotmail Connector The recommended solution is to use the Outlook Connector, but it works with Outlook 2003/2007/2010 only. For all versions of Outlook (and any email program that supports POP3) you...
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Repairing Outlook Hotmail Connector
Following my October 4, 2010 tip, I received this from Microsoft: So in these cases, the best way to help these users is to have them go directly to the download website to get the MSI installing/repairing. I recommend just having Outlook tips send out the direct links and letting them know that installing/repairing...
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