New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

majaska — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:44:44 GMT

I made a small mistake when I run my Outlook 2010 for the very first time. I clicked the radio button for Microsoft Exchange Server. It is now asking me for MS Exch. Server Name and Mailbox for which I dont know. I am running Windows 7. I tried system restore, uninstall, reinstall and none works. When this Microsoft Exchange Server window shows up and you cant put the correct name of ms exch server and mailbox, then you're stuck and outlook will just exit.

Please help anyone out there who knows the solution. thanks in advance.

...mar

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

PB — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:31:12 GMT

Hello folks, Thanks fo this great tool. It helps a lot. Can you give an approximate date for tasks and notes to exist and sync as well? However, I unofortunately have constant error messages on my system (WinXPProSP3, OfficePro03SP3, broadband, about 1000 pieces of mail, about 3500 appintments going back to 6 years ago (I need these)). I get the error messages in the Sync error folder. The Calendar sync always reports an error, but seems to partially sync. Email reports an error every now and then. Contacts sync fine.

In addittion, with this new beta 2, sync started consuming 100% processor power for about 5(!) minutes and the whole sync process takes like 5 times longer than with the beta-1 version.

Further, it seems that if I define some other of my e-mail accounts, I am unable to send e-mail out from them: every single piece of mail can only be sent as my hotmail address as the sender. Am I doing something wrong or this is a (bug)? Thanks: PB.

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

JackH — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:51:52 GMT

There is only one major bug that I have found so far. Connecting a live.com email account to Outlook 2007 does not work. I was using my live.com email account in Outlook 2003 with no problems. Noone has been able to get it working with Outlook 2007.

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

Bethany — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:35:59 GMT

Here are some of the bugs I've run into so far. 1. when i send an appointment to people via outlook, they get it two times. i'm not sure about the timing, but less than a day later, the meeting is deleted off my calendar. this is not repro when i make an appointment that doesn't have attendees. i'm also getting flaky behavior when i try to make the appointment via IE, then add attendees via outlook - sometimes it removes me as the organizer. the bad part is that windows live won't let you send invites out via their calendar. you can only make appointments with yourself. if you want to send out an invite, they redirect you to myspace and you essentially make an evite. this is really a huge hassle because it won't be in your calendar and for simple appointments, you really don't need an evite. 2. some of my email shows up completely blank via outlook except the date. when i go to hotmail, i can see everything. i have noticed that this only happens with mail that was in my non inbox folders in hotmail prior to installing the connector. 3. when i use conversation view in outlook, all new email shows up under conversation "none". when i click on an email, focus is taken away from the email and it moves into the correct conversation or is moved to a new folder if there is a rule. not repro if i group by date. bummer because i love conversation view. 4. in outlook with exchange, the reading pane was turned off by default in junk email. not the case with the junk folder in hotmail via outlook. issues with contacts (i was trying to merge my exchange contacts with my hotmail contacts (most of them from my IM). 5. if i move a contact from my archive folder over to my hotmail account, and the same email address is on both, it asks if i want to merge the two, but it doesn't acutally merge the two, so i get dupes. don't know if it's because i categorized everything. 6. as a result, i went one by one (very tedious) and deleted my hotmail contacts and moved my exchange contacts over. now the vast majority of my IM contacts appear in msn im as "non messenger contacts", so i can't im with them anymore. i had filled in the outlook IM address field in my contacts. turns out this is different than the field that msn im uses. this field is not shown in the outlook contact form. looks like i have more tedious work to do. 7. some of my exchange contacts (archive folder) can't be moved over to hotmail. rebooting doesn't help. 8. hotmail respects my old categories for contacts, but doesn't have these categories in the "all categories" list. shouldn't outlook just add these new categories? it would make life much more simple. easier to delete a category than to have to type it all in again.

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

mnmartin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:33:53 GMT

Good day Now I have come to why is not functional calendar and synchronize mail connector and Outlook 2007 ceases to download e-mail to Outlook 2007. All are on the conscience of the color category. If any mail or event in the calendar marked with color categories přestne Connector to synchronize data. Unfortunately, I have thus come to some e-mail which is the worst case. :-( I am from the Czech Republic and the categories are hooks and commas (punctuation) b maybe there could be a problem. I do not know but if it is not possible to use.

re: no emails being displayed in outlook from hotmail acct

tim downey — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:34:18 GMT

I have installed Outlook 2007 and the 12.1 outlook connector. I have added my Windoes Live Mail, hotmail acct to outlook using the connector. I see the folders in outlook but no mail is displayed. No contacts, no calendar, nothing. What am I doing wrong. This seems too simple to mess up.

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

wxman — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:16:24 GMT

For about the last 12-15 hours I have not been able to retrieve my e-mail from my windows live account. The calendar syncs fine though. Are there network problems? Is there a forum to discuss this further?

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

T Mac — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:43:24 GMT

Same as a prior poster - I tried to sync my iPhone 3G with both iTunes and mobileMe and both fail with Outlook 2007 using MS Outlook Connector 12.x. Regards, /tlmc

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

John-Wayne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:24 GMT

I still get FIVE annoying messages boxes, at each outlook startup, which ask me for my Live ID/password. :|

The Live ID and passwords from all 5 accounts are stored, i must only click on "OK", but it's annoying.

re: New Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta released!

Mark — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:19:10 GMT

Could not longer connect and retrieve mail after installing Beta. After uninstalling OC Beta Outlook 2003 still would not go online and connect for mail. Could not delete the hotmail and outlook connector store service folders. Could not access Tools/EMail accounts to remove email additions made by OC Beta. Uninstalled Office 2003 and Oulook 2003, reinstalled, same problem.