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Outlook Connector (v12) now Hotmail Connector (v14) ?
Outlook Connector (v12) -NOW- Hotmail Connector (v14) ? in Outlook General
Questions Thanks Roady. Strange though - I have not upgraded the connector for my Outlook yet and the upgrade pop-up warning doesn't show anymore! I smell a rat - that MS have rolled back the need for it until they can issue a working upgrade patch procedure. I brought up this issue before that MS should offer a service patch for Outlook (2000,2003,2007) to bring it up-to-date in terms of e-mail connectivity protocols. Therefore making the procedure of adding a new e-mail account more streamlined for the operator. eg. To add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2003; the choice of Server Type still shows - "HTTP - Connect to HTTP e-mail server such as Hotmail to download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders." - This is clearly now obsolete! From what I perceive, Outlook 2010 requires the Hotmail Connector as well, so it musn't have the connectivity buil-in. Even though Hotmail (Livemail) has long been a widely used mainstream service. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: The Outlook Hotmail Connector is the new version of the Outlook Connector with a slightly different name. Upgrading will remove the old version. If not, you can remove it manually as you won't need it anymore. The upgrade process should be fixed by now and point to the latest version. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...utlook.general |
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Outlook Connector (v12) now Hotmail Connector (v14) ?
eg. To add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2003; the choice of Server Type
still shows - "HTTP - Connect to HTTP e-mail server such as Hotmail to download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders." - This is clearly now obsolete! Correct, although you can disable the HTTP account option with a registry key though. The update is being pushed only to a select "few" and not to everyone yet to spread the load. Currently the upgrade is not yet mandatory, meaning that you can connect with the old and the new version. This will change over time as they will shut down Outlook Connector v12 support. The fact that Outlook Connector support has not been provided built-in in Outlook 2010 is done for anti-trust and separate development reasons. The DeltaSync protocol (which the Outlook Connector uses) is not a standard mail protocol (like IMAP or POP3) nor is it the main purpose of Outlook to be used with that specific mail protocol (Exchange takes that honor) so leaving it as an add-in makes sense in that way. Also, the AutoDiscover feature will directly tell you for the need of the Outlook Connector when you try to configure Outlook with a Hotmail account so people won't be directly at a loss. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Mike" wrote in message ... Outlook Connector (v12) -NOW- Hotmail Connector (v14) ? in Outlook General Questions Thanks Roady. Strange though - I have not upgraded the connector for my Outlook yet and the upgrade pop-up warning doesn't show anymore! I smell a rat - that MS have rolled back the need for it until they can issue a working upgrade patch procedure. I brought up this issue before that MS should offer a service patch for Outlook (2000,2003,2007) to bring it up-to-date in terms of e-mail connectivity protocols. Therefore making the procedure of adding a new e-mail account more streamlined for the operator. eg. To add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2003; the choice of Server Type still shows - "HTTP - Connect to HTTP e-mail server such as Hotmail to download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders." - This is clearly now obsolete! From what I perceive, Outlook 2010 requires the Hotmail Connector as well, so it musn't have the connectivity buil-in. Even though Hotmail (Livemail) has long been a widely used mainstream service. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: The Outlook Hotmail Connector is the new version of the Outlook Connector with a slightly different name. Upgrading will remove the old version. If not, you can remove it manually as you won't need it anymore. The upgrade process should be fixed by now and point to the latest version. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...utlook.general |
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