Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

laursaurus — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:01:51 GMT

WARNING!!!!

Do not upgrade to Outlook.com and expect it to work with Outlook 2013. This has been heart-breaking. A persistent error message will say that "too many devices are syncing..." The help forum has about 1000 messages in various threads begging for their accounts to be repaired. Except it can't be. You will be told you're an idiot for trusting a Beta product with valuable info. There is a dysfunctional work around where you manually reconfigure Outlook.com as a a POP account. It will not syncing most of your inbox, none of your contacts, and forget that calendar you've been relying on. Microsoft doesn't give a damn about the 1000+ users who've pleaded to have their accounts restored so they can just sync ONE device. Nope, EAS or Active Exchange WILL CONTINUALLY LOCK UP with this message unless you request to have your account "reset" by a kind-hearted moderator. Then DON'T readd you Outlook.com account or forget it! If Outlook.com can't handle 1000 users, it would be a crime against humanity to turn 1 billion lives upside down! No fix! No acknowledgement. Nothing! We're screwed!

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

Alvester Garnett — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:52:39 GMT

WARNING about Exchange Active Sync with Outlook 2013 - Whenever I (and a GREAT many others, see the MS Community support forums) try to use Exchange Active Sync to sync Hotmail messages, contacts and calendar to Outlook 2013 it constantly causes an error to pop up saying:

"There are too many devices syncing with this account" Error Code 0x80004005 I Can't access account through email client.

The error experienced is as follows:

"There are too many devices syncing with this account"

File: outlook\pstprx\storeas\utils\airsyncstatuscodes.h

Line: 88

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

FolderStatus: 177

To re-try press F9...

Error Code: 0x80004005"

The error pop up renders Outlook 2013 useless because the pop up blocks the ability to interact with the software. I can't even get to my Exchange Server email and calendar which are also synced to Outlook because of this.

For others having the same issue with Outlook 2013 check the MS Community forums here - answers.microsoft.com/.../40f38a18-e88e-4165-b62e-04158049eaa1

The MS people in the support forum keep suggesting to use POP3 which doesn't even syn contacts or calendars.

Be forewarned that using Exchange Active Sync to sync your Hotmail messages, contacts and calendar to Outlook 2013 is not ready for prime time. It might work for a while but once you try to sync just a few devices like a laptop, desktop, phone and tablet you will get the too many devices error.

It doesn't help that if you use your Hotmail account as a login to your Windows 8 machine, that will most likely count against your device quota even if you don't use the built-in Windows 8 mail app.

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

Opa114 — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:13:17 GMT

yes please :) and please keep in mind to fix problems like. synchronize contact groups from from outlook.com with outlook 2013 and fix the todo bar calendar to highlight days on which are events and please! add the ability to show all upcoming events in the todo bar! (or create a selection window where the users can decide which calendar dates they want so see in the todo bar and the counting of elements to shown. this would be very nice! :)

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

ben2202 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:45:17 GMT

Hello,

Do you know if the Client certificate-based authentication (CBA) is supported in activesync connection par Outlook 2013 ?

I tested with all versions of Windows 8 and Office 2013 and I have every time the same behavior: The certificate is not sent (NetWork capturing)

Regards,

Ben

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

ben2202 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:39:40 GMT

Hello,

Do you know if the Client certificate-based authentication (CBA) is supported in activesync connection by Outlook 2013 ?

I tested with all versions of Windows 8 and Office 2013 and I have every time the same behavior: The certificate is not sent (i verify by NetWork capturing)

Regards,

Ben

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

edarrea — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:47:54 GMT

After I have installed my Hotmail account into Outlook 2013 it starts giving an error that says " Too many devices syncing with account " What can I do ?

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

dtrounson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:17:40 GMT

Hi guys, I am just curious if the issues surrounding contact synchronization between Outlook.com and Outlook 2013 are likely to be resolved sometime soon? From one day to the next I am never sure how many contacts I will actually have within the Outlook 2013 client... I am somewhat thankful at least they seem to just disappear and reappear in the desktop client not at people.live.com (which I consider my master contact list) but its really frustrating to have to constantly be looking up email addresses on the web page because the sync fails so hard (using Outlook 2013 RTM 64bit/Windows 8 Pro 64bit btw)

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

aemarques — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:36:13 GMT

Outlook 2013 is a TERRIBLE option for managing Outlook.com. My company has just *downgraded* Office 2013 to Office 2010 because of it!

Why? Two things: The first one is not related to Outllok.com: Horrible support for IMAP servers; the other one is: Super-horrible support for Outlook.com accounts.

Among other things - just look around the net, you'll find dozens (thousands?) of people complaining - Outlook 2013 does NOT support contact groups in Outlook.com accounts. Yes, I know, it does not make any sense, but it is true... :-(

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

David Elliott — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:26:43 GMT

Is there a way to set up a "catch-all" account with custom domains and outlook.com? I have a domain, abcwhatever.com, that is set up under domains.live.com. I would like to be able to configure outlook.com to receive any email sent to the domain. However, I don't see a way to do that.

re: Put the power of Outlook 2013 behind your Outlook.com email

peristeros — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:34:53 GMT

hi. my post will be off-topic, but i thought this would be a good way to contact the outlook.com engineers.

i want to change my microsoft account with my alias email address. i know that i can change my account email with a wholly new one, but unfortunately it is not possible to change the microsoft account with an already reserved address.

my feature request for outlook.com is this ability:)

thanks.