Final Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Now Available


Posted by Brandon LeBlanc on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:06 AM 26 Comments
Today, the Microsoft Office Outlook Team has made the new version of the Microsoft Outlook Connector Beta available for download. That means no more "beta".

Download: Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

With all the responses on my post announcing the beta a few months ago, I figured this announcement will be of interest. The final build number is 12.0.4518.1058. If you don't see that build number in the About window for the Outlook Connector, then you're not yet running the final version.

The Microsoft Office Outlook Connector lets you sync your Windows Live Hotmail account up with Outlook 2003 and 2007. Remember, in order to sync your Calendar you need to be a paid subscriber of MSN Premium, Office Live Essentials, or Office Live Premium to get that added functionality with this release. If you are not a paid subscriber of these services, you will see an error in syncing your calendar in Outlook but you will be about to sync up you email messages and contacts just fine.

Be sure to visit the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog and give them your feedback on the Outlook Connector.

AUG 15
 

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AUG 15
 

Posted by joene

sugestion:

make a option in outlook connector that syncs your outlook calendar with windows calendar in vista.
AUG 15
 

Posted by Spencer

Thanks, I just installed the "beta" a couple of days ago, time to upgrade.
AUG 15
 

Posted by Drazick

Still having this "Subscription Required" error...

Who can solve it?

Thanks.
AUG 15
 

Posted by ForeverDestiny

I was interested to know whats going on with update KB938979. I heard it was coming out this week on windows update but never saw it. any info?
AUG 16
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

Drazick, I would post and keep posting on the Outlook Team blog and make sure your build number for the Outlook Connector matches the screenshot I posted above.

ForeverDestiny, I don't have any info for you unfortunately - sorry.
AUG 17
 

Posted by jin

(to ForeverDestiny) you have to download it manually, its not available through windows update

link-http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3FB80BB9-D832-425B-B42C-D3EB2071BBEC&displaylang=en

information- http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/96749/windowspaulthurrott_96749.html
AUG 18
 

Posted by vhanok

need to send mails through outlook express
AUG 19
 

Posted by Victoria

I'm using the newest version of Outlook Connect and it seems to work much better for me.

I am now able to search the internet, receive RSS feeds, read PDF files, send and receive

e-mails all from Outlook and/or Business Contact Manager and I will be learning more about how to use it.  
AUG 20
 

Posted by freitasm

Except that this build crashes my Outlook 2007 on start, while the beta was flawless.

Now I can't read my Live Mail in Outlook anymore. Broken...
AUG 21
 

Posted by freitasm

Hmmm. Cancel that! The Outlook Connector is working fine. It was another Outlook add-in causing the problem.
AUG 22
 

Posted by JasperUK

I'm running the Outlook Connector v12.0.4518.1058, with Outlook 2007 on Vista.  The problem is, it doesn't sync email older than around 120 days+

On my WinXP, O2K3 with Connector v1.8.3501.0.  All is working, and confirmed by checking the folders on mail.live.com.

Any idea's?
SEP 06
 

Posted by smoreira

I have the version 12.0.4518.1058 of outlook connector installed in my Vista Machine. However, I can't get it to work. The sign in always fails. It suggests to restart outlook or try to repair outlook connector, but neither worked.

Has anyone had this problem before?

Thanks,

Sam
SEP 06
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

smoreira, I have not seen this problem. You might want to head on over to the Outlook blog and let them know of your problem:

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/

- Brandon
SEP 07
 

Posted by smoreira

Brandon,

Thanks for your reply. Just as a feedback for anyone having the same problem, the solution was basically giving permission to Outlook to access the Internet via the firewall.

Even though I installed the Outlook Connector using the admin user, I was trying to connect to my hotmail for the first time under my daily account, which is basically a standard account. Under the standard account, I was receiving the login failure error from the connector. However, as soon as I connected to my hotmail account logged in as the admin user, I received the firewall message inquiring about giving permission to Outlook to access the Internet. And, after giving permission to Outlook, the outlook connector began working on all my standard accounts without the need to do anything else.

Hope this helps,

Thanks again,

Sam Moreira
SEP 11
 

Posted by peterawest

I'm now using Outlook Connector version 12.0.4518.1063 that was released today (09/11/2007) along with Outlook 2007. I was having trouble today getting the sync to complete, so I upgraded to the new version.

I have a Hotmail Plus account and I noticed that as of today I now have 10 GB of space available. But in the Outlook Connector it reports that I have 5GB of space.  Could it be that the descripency has something to do with the problem?

My wife has a free hotmail account that only has 5 GB of space and her sync is working just fine.

OCT 30
 

Posted by antoniomc

Outlook Connector it´s absolutely useless.

May be it works for "toy" occounts. I tried to migrate a MailBox with thousands of mails 8K+, and ot never got synchonized between the web inteface and Outlook. Besides thay, it happens all the time, that some mails can be seen in the web interface, but not in Outlook. Hey there!. People that make this!. Why are you making us loose our time?????.

Antonio.
JUN 21
 

Posted by spinmaths

Hello.

I installed the Outlook Connector today (v.12.0.4518.1068) and it doesn't look working. I have outlook 2003 and when I open it and press F9 (for Send/Receice All), looks everything fine without any error (shows Send/Receive Complete in outlook progress). But it doesn't make any sychronize with my hotmail account. Then i am testing sending a mail to this account and it goes to web account and not to outlook. At the server status of the outlook connector, say:

Mail: Connecting

Calendar; Connecting

Contact: Connecting

What is wrong?
JUL 23
 

Posted by velocite

I'm using Outlook 2007 however it isn't synchronizing the emails to my outlook. I can send emails, but wont recieve them.

Mail: Connecting

Calendar; Connecting

Contact: Connecting

Is there a way to solve this?
JUL 23
 

Posted by radeldudel

I got Outlook Connector Version 12.0.4518.1068.

It reports successful refresh of E-Mail, Calendar and Contacts, but it does not sync my calendar items. Even if I add new appointments, they will not be synced.

I subscribed to MSN premium just for this - does anyone know how to get it to work?

Thanks,

Sam
JUL 23
 

Posted by MYT

I'm am also using Outlook 2007 however it isn't synchronizing the emails to my outlook. I can send emails, but wont receive them.

Mail: Connecting

Calendar; Connecting

Contact: Connecting

Has anyone found a solution for this problem yet?
JUL 24
 

Posted by Jimm98y

Hi, I have the same problem here - I'm using Outlook 2007 with Outlook Connector and the day before yesterday it worked fine, but now it only shows "Mail: Connecting, Calendar: Connecting, Contact: Connecting" and that's all - Sending and Recieving pass fine without error, but it doesn't sync my mails - does anyone know the solution?
JUL 24
 

Posted by KFern

Hi,

It seems like a bunch of us are having the same problem!

I've been using MS Office 2007 (outlook) with outlook connector (12.0.4518.1068) for the past 6 months without any issues.

However, all of a sudden as of last week my mail stopped synchronizing. When i check the server status, all fields indicate "Connecting" and has not changed (despite re-booting the computer, repairing OC, and uninstalling then re-installing OC).

The following is the detailed report:

Outlook Connector Version 12.0.4518.1068

Account: -------@live.com

Signed in successfully at 24/7/2008 02:26:49

Mail:

Calendar:

Contacts:

I have searched the web for solutions, but few people seem to have the same problem. Nothing in my setup has changed since it worked fine. Any suggestions?
JUL 24
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

I am looking into the issues as to why email is not syncing for some users. Will post when I have more information.

In the meantime, I just got done blogging about the brand new Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta release with Windows Live Calendar sync. Check out my post here but rememeber it is a Beta (not a final release):

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/07/24/new-microsoft-office-outlook-connector-beta-release-with-calendar-sync.aspx

Thanks,

Brandon
JUL 25
 

Posted by Jimm98y

Thanks very much for your help, with this beta everything works fine for me.
JUL 28
 

Posted by Gospelific

I had the "connecting" problem with the official 12.0.4518.1068 version of Connector, but when I downloaded the beta (12.1) it states that my inbox and contacts are connected, but it doesn't sync my inbox, and still fails on my calendar...

Is there anything I'm doing wrong? (P.S. I have Vista Ultimate, Office 2007 Enterprise, and a fully paid office live account)
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