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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
Russ
I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
Others appear not to be so lucky. It seems to have a lot to do with when the
original account was created and what type of account it was. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "big_chief_hutch" wrote in message ... Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
I am running one hotmail account with OL Connector on Outlook 2007. I
recieved all my emails from hotmail into Outlook, but once this occured Outlook hasn't recieved any new emails. Hotmail gets email but not Outlook. What could be the story here. i can send emails but not recieve in outlook... Scott "big_chief_hutch" wrote: Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
I have not been able to get Outlook and the connector to work reliabily with
my hotmail account that was upgraded to a live account. Does the connector actually work or should I just wait for the next release. The support for this product, the connector is terrible. STeve -- It can't be too easy to use. "Scott" wrote: I am running one hotmail account with OL Connector on Outlook 2007. I recieved all my emails from hotmail into Outlook, but once this occured Outlook hasn't recieved any new emails. Hotmail gets email but not Outlook. What could be the story here. i can send emails but not recieve in outlook... Scott "big_chief_hutch" wrote: Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
I am having similar problems. The connector has worked intermittently.
However, it is difficult to get synching of new saved message folders back into Hotmail (upgraded to Live) accounts. I like the idea of online storage so am moving some of my stored email folders from Outlook into Hotmail accounts using Connector. I'm having difficulty with a large folder I "dropped" in to Hotmail. It doesn't sync. Even though within Outlook it shows as belonging to my Hotmail account, I can't access these messages from Live.com (hotmail) What is going wrong here? "SteveO" wrote: I have not been able to get Outlook and the connector to work reliabily with my hotmail account that was upgraded to a live account. Does the connector actually work or should I just wait for the next release. The support for this product, the connector is terrible. STeve -- It can't be too easy to use. "Scott" wrote: I am running one hotmail account with OL Connector on Outlook 2007. I recieved all my emails from hotmail into Outlook, but once this occured Outlook hasn't recieved any new emails. Hotmail gets email but not Outlook. What could be the story here. i can send emails but not recieve in outlook... Scott "big_chief_hutch" wrote: Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
In addition to working intermittenly (not sync'ing / Crashing -
Hanging Outlook) when I installed the Outlook connector for hotmail I began having OS problems immediately. TaskMgr would not come up. I uninstalled and the problem went away. I know that it is strange but it was quite clear as the problems went away after the uninstall. (Actually reimaged from a ghost image as the OS was acting flacky) I have Mindjet, Adobe Pro, and Card Scan as well as the palm addins for Outlook. After using outlook for years with hotmail without any problems, the migration to live has been terrible. The new Windows Mail Live was my workaround but now it is getting flaky and not sync'ing correctly. I am frustrated enough to pay for tech support but can not find a nr for support. Does anyone know where I could get support. Thanks, Steve |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
I have the same issue. Outlook 2003, and Windows XP. Outlook Connector
managed to download some emails well. Then a week ago it started giving me this error message (Outlook connector version: 12.0.4518.1068) "Sign-in failed. Outlook Connector has encountered an error. Please restart Outlook. If the issue continues, open the Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs and repair Outlook Connector. If this does not fix the issue, contact Support." Support is not readily available, I agree with what people are saying above, the product ID number is unrecognizable to the mainstream MSN folk. Any ideas as to when our suffering may end? I'm not trying to be mean, any help is highly highly highly appreciated and worthy of Knighthood by her Majesty the Queen! A. "BrianM" wrote: I am having similar problems. The connector has worked intermittently. However, it is difficult to get synching of new saved message folders back into Hotmail (upgraded to Live) accounts. I like the idea of online storage so am moving some of my stored email folders from Outlook into Hotmail accounts using Connector. I'm having difficulty with a large folder I "dropped" in to Hotmail. It doesn't sync. Even though within Outlook it shows as belonging to my Hotmail account, I can't access these messages from Live.com (hotmail) What is going wrong here? "SteveO" wrote: I have not been able to get Outlook and the connector to work reliabily with my hotmail account that was upgraded to a live account. Does the connector actually work or should I just wait for the next release. The support for this product, the connector is terrible. STeve -- It can't be too easy to use. "Scott" wrote: I am running one hotmail account with OL Connector on Outlook 2007. I recieved all my emails from hotmail into Outlook, but once this occured Outlook hasn't recieved any new emails. Hotmail gets email but not Outlook. What could be the story here. i can send emails but not recieve in outlook... Scott "big_chief_hutch" wrote: Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
I'm now feeling everyone's pain. I upgraded to Outlook 2007, and upgraded my
Outlook Connector. I have only one account, it is an MSN account. It is a Window's Live account. Now, using Outlook Connector into Outlook 2007 I can easily synch both my email and my contacts, but my calendar is suddenly empty for the current month. It contains all of the October data, but none of the Sept, which is a real bummer because I have 3 trips in the next 3 weeks and all of the trip info is in my calendar appointments. Any ideas how to get the calendar data? I am getting some synch errors in the log. "Aylwyn" wrote: I have the same issue. Outlook 2003, and Windows XP. Outlook Connector managed to download some emails well. Then a week ago it started giving me this error message (Outlook connector version: 12.0.4518.1068) "Sign-in failed. Outlook Connector has encountered an error. Please restart Outlook. If the issue continues, open the Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs and repair Outlook Connector. If this does not fix the issue, contact Support." Support is not readily available, I agree with what people are saying above, the product ID number is unrecognizable to the mainstream MSN folk. Any ideas as to when our suffering may end? I'm not trying to be mean, any help is highly highly highly appreciated and worthy of Knighthood by her Majesty the Queen! A. "BrianM" wrote: I am having similar problems. The connector has worked intermittently. However, it is difficult to get synching of new saved message folders back into Hotmail (upgraded to Live) accounts. I like the idea of online storage so am moving some of my stored email folders from Outlook into Hotmail accounts using Connector. I'm having difficulty with a large folder I "dropped" in to Hotmail. It doesn't sync. Even though within Outlook it shows as belonging to my Hotmail account, I can't access these messages from Live.com (hotmail) What is going wrong here? "SteveO" wrote: I have not been able to get Outlook and the connector to work reliabily with my hotmail account that was upgraded to a live account. Does the connector actually work or should I just wait for the next release. The support for this product, the connector is terrible. STeve -- It can't be too easy to use. "Scott" wrote: I am running one hotmail account with OL Connector on Outlook 2007. I recieved all my emails from hotmail into Outlook, but once this occured Outlook hasn't recieved any new emails. Hotmail gets email but not Outlook. What could be the story here. i can send emails but not recieve in outlook... Scott "big_chief_hutch" wrote: Russ I am running OL Connector with 2 hotmail.com accounts through OL 2007 and have never had any problems. I has worked a treat. Keith "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: What we were told when Outlook Connector was released last September is that it would only work with hotmail accounts that had been upgraded to Windows Live or with Microsoft Office Live. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "akita" wrote in message ... "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Of course. Did you not read how Outlook Connector works? It's the very first sentence on the download page. Perhaps that outlook connector only works with live accounts, or whatever. Nonsense! The difference is in the top level domain handling. Newer accounts refer to a live.com domain, whereas older accounts use the ‘traditional’ hotmail.com domain naming syntax. Internally I suspect that all hotmail accounts are handled much as if they were Live! accounts. Besides, Outlook Connector has definitely no problems accepting hotmail.com accounts, and certainly can handle it if that’s just the one single account in OL. As long as the account is a MAPI account OL Connector has no problem handling it. You as an Outlook MVP should be more than just well aware of that. Rather than throw-away one-liners I’d very much prefer proper advice / help – see others on this threat. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
MVP, you are wrong here. I have a single live email configured in outlook
using the connector and it has NEVER worked more that a full day before it disables ITSELF because of sync issues. Microsoft has dropped the ball on this so called connector. They should have called it dis-connector. What fry;s my bacon is the fact that no matter what error it logs, there is no hint of a real fix, except to remove the account and reinstall it. Hello? What a joke. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: If you create a mail profile with only 1 Live Hotmail account, does it work correctly then? With 5 accounts configured, I think you're killing the Connector. -- 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 ----- "akita" wrote in message ... MS Vista – OL 2007 SP1 – Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) – and: 4 free hotmail accounts (all MAPI) 1 free live account (MAPI) Doesn’t look like this combination is working. In fact, I’d like to argue that Outlook Connector remains a rather unproven puppy to be treated with a great deal of suspicion; which, really, is a shame. Like many other users, I welcomed the idea of a MS plug-in for OL to read, send, access & synchronize hotmail accounts. Unfortunately this seems to remain a rather elusive goal for MS to realise fully and reliably. Besides the above Vista based combination, I also have installed on another machine XP-SP2 Pro with OL 2003 SP3 and the same Connector version as above. On both machines I have problems receiving / synchronizing new mail from any of my five accounts. Oddly enough, most (but not all) mail that has been shunted to the junk mail folder does arrive in OL. And yes, as far as I can tell, all synchronising options have been activated. Rarely does OL receive new mail sitting in my inboxes. Two of the hotmail accounts don’t synchronize at all with either OL version (using Outlook Connector). The one live account, plus the other two hotmail accounts usually synchronise – but not always and never fully. The one bright side is that at least I can use OL to reliably send mail. Incidentally, I did try the free Windows Live Desktop progy, but found synchronization issues with that one as well – albeit on a much lower scale. However, I do prefer using OL as my email client. Besides, Windows Live Desktop is no longer available for download as a stand-alone product, as one can now only download it using a combined package installer. Granted, I can uncheck the stuff I don’t need, but it’s still annoying to be forced using an installer of sorts when it would be so much more convenient to offer the public a direct download link. I guess only the folks who invented such idiosyncrasies will ever understand that particular logic. Anyway, if someone here has found a reliable and working solution to get OL with the latest Outlook Connector version to reliably synchronize with MAPI hotmail / live accounts, I’d love to hear how it’s to be done. Thanks to all in advance. |
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Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) can’t synchronize with OL
It works fine for me. It occasionally stops for a day or two (MSN problems)
but I have never had to reinstall it. That tells me the problem isn't the connector specifically, its something in conjunction with the connection. This could be other addins, antivirus or antispam scanners, sync tools for handhelds etc... or the number of accounts you have configured. I use just one acct with it but have occasionally used 2 and 3 when testing it - but not for long periods. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "Charley" wrote in message news MVP, you are wrong here. I have a single live email configured in outlook using the connector and it has NEVER worked more that a full day before it disables ITSELF because of sync issues. Microsoft has dropped the ball on this so called connector. They should have called it dis-connector. What fry;s my bacon is the fact that no matter what error it logs, there is no hint of a real fix, except to remove the account and reinstall it. Hello? What a joke. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: If you create a mail profile with only 1 Live Hotmail account, does it work correctly then? With 5 accounts configured, I think you're killing the Connector. -- 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 ----- "akita" wrote in message ... MS Vista – OL 2007 SP1 – Outlook Connector (v12.0.4518.1068) – and: 4 free hotmail accounts (all MAPI) 1 free live account (MAPI) Doesn’t look like this combination is working. In fact, I’d like to argue that Outlook Connector remains a rather unproven puppy to be treated with a great deal of suspicion; which, really, is a shame. Like many other users, I welcomed the idea of a MS plug-in for OL to read, send, access & synchronize hotmail accounts. Unfortunately this seems to remain a rather elusive goal for MS to realise fully and reliably. Besides the above Vista based combination, I also have installed on another machine XP-SP2 Pro with OL 2003 SP3 and the same Connector version as above. On both machines I have problems receiving / synchronizing new mail from any of my five accounts. Oddly enough, most (but not all) mail that has been shunted to the junk mail folder does arrive in OL. And yes, as far as I can tell, all synchronising options have been activated. Rarely does OL receive new mail sitting in my inboxes. Two of the hotmail accounts don’t synchronize at all with either OL version (using Outlook Connector). The one live account, plus the other two hotmail accounts usually synchronise – but not always and never fully. The one bright side is that at least I can use OL to reliably send mail. Incidentally, I did try the free Windows Live Desktop progy, but found synchronization issues with that one as well – albeit on a much lower scale. However, I do prefer using OL as my email client. Besides, Windows Live Desktop is no longer available for download as a stand-alone product, as one can now only download it using a combined package installer. Granted, I can uncheck the stuff I don’t need, but it’s still annoying to be forced using an installer of sorts when it would be so much more convenient to offer the public a direct download link. I guess only the folks who invented such idiosyncrasies will ever understand that particular logic. Anyway, if someone here has found a reliable and working solution to get OL with the latest Outlook Connector version to reliably synchronize with MAPI hotmail / live accounts, I’d love to hear how it’s to be done. Thanks to all in advance. |
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