If you are using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 and want to access your Windows Live Hotmail account, you should install the new updated version of Outlook Hotmail Connector.
Microsoft has updated Outlook Connector which includes several stability and reliability fixes and supports the HTTPS protocol for all communication between Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Hotmail, Calendar and Contacts.
With Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free.
Outlook Hotmail Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:
- Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
- Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
- Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
- Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
- Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook.
If you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector with Outlook 2010 you gain these additional benefits:
- Your Safe Sender List/Blocked sender list/Safe Recipient lists are synchronized between Outlook and Hotmail.
- Send/receive works like your other Outlook accounts.
- Your Hotmail account status appears in the Outlook status bar.
- Rules work with the Hotmail account in Outlook even if it’s not your primary account.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Microsoft Office, Windows Live.
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Afizz
thank goodness!
SCBright
Thanks VG, good news!
digit
Is this version compatible with Outlook 2003/2007?
VG
^^ Yes.
Thomas
Can I use this as plugin for rainmeter? I hope it so much!
Nancy
Which version of Hotmail Connector do I use for Outlook 2003 on a Win 7 64-bit system? Thank you :)
VG
^^ I think it should work for Outlook 2003 as well.
Nancy
Thanks, I downloaded the 64 bit vs. I'll report back later.
jasray
Thanks for the alert. I would have totally missed this one.
Gandalf
This new version of outlook connector doesn't work for me.
It get an sync error and limited connectivity.
It seems to be a problem with Live Calendar not having HTTPS access:
See comments on Outlook Blog: blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2011/07/07/https-support-added-to-outlook-hotmail-connector.aspx
See comments on MS Awnsers: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/errors-after-connector-v14061065001-install/efd4dcab-f7bb-4c1a-b7a8-c7732c699e7a?tm=1310187783761