Guest PaulF Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 Hi all Well, the free Outlook Connctor Beta promsied by the Windows Live Hotmail team is now here: http://mailcall.spaces.live.com I've downloaded it, and I can now get my Windows Live contacts and Email in Outlook 2003 (Calendar sync, for some reason, is still only supported for paid subscriotions). My plan was to use this to sync Windows Live to Outlook, and then use Active Sync to sync to my M600 (running WM5) - mainly to keep one set of contacts (and hopefully in the future to keep one calendar if they allow us to use it for free). I've hit a few problems..... Firstly, on Active Sync 4.5, I can't find an option to choose which contacts folder to sync with - I'm sure it was available in the earlier versions.... Anyone out there running an older verison of Active Sync and confirm this?? So at the moment I still can't sync my Windows Live and WM5 contacts - I've got them both into Outlook (but in two separate folders) and can't seem to sync them. Also, I've found another annoying problem - it seems that in the Windows Live contacts, the ''nickname' field is a mandatory field - you can't leave it empty (I assume this is to do with Live Messenger stuff). This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but if you complete the 'nickname' field in Outlook, and then sync to the phone, all the contacts are shown on screen as John "johnsmith" Smith (with the nickname in between the first and last names) - which is a real pain! The good news is I didn't have to pay anything to find out this doesn't really work very well :rolleyes: All I want is a simple way to properly integrate my Windows Mobile device and my Windows Live information - shouldn't be hard should it??? Are these problems resolved in WM6? Does that allow proper synchronisation of Windows Live Contacts and Calender with the Pocket Outlook applications on the phone (either over the mobile network, or via a PC)??
Guest Confucious Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 If you use Live messenger it syncs your live contacts into outlook.
Guest PaulF Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 If you use Live messenger it syncs your live contacts into outlook. Which version of Live Messenger? Is that on your PC or on the Phone?
Guest PaulF Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 Live Messenger on the phone. Is that available / compatible with WM5 ? Is it a free download? The only version of Live Messenger I found for the phone was a web based version (you browsed to http://mobile.live.com/wlm) and then sign in there.....)
Guest Confucious Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 Have you tried looking here ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311050
Guest PaulF Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 Thanks very much - I'll give it a try....
Guest Confucious Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 Thanks very much - I'll give it a try.... no problem, works fine on my Ameo running WM5
Guest PaulF Posted June 17, 2007 Report Posted June 17, 2007 no problem, works fine on my Ameo running WM5 Unfortunately, it won't install on my M600 - reading through the XDA post, I think it's a Smartphone version, not PPC... And yes, I've searched XDA for a PPC version but I can't find one (they're all into uploading complte ROM images onto their phones, and I'm not sure that I'm up for that) I'll keep looking for alternatives.....
Guest Confucious Posted June 17, 2007 Report Posted June 17, 2007 Sorry, i geave youi the link to the wrong one - the PPC one is available (I have it!) I'll find it and post the link.
Guest Confucious Posted June 17, 2007 Report Posted June 17, 2007 PPC version -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=302152
Guest PaulF Posted June 18, 2007 Report Posted June 18, 2007 PPC version -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=302152 Thanks mate - I'll give that one a try when I've got a few mins spare...... Cheers Paul
Guest Posted June 18, 2007 Report Posted June 18, 2007 Thanks mate - I'll give that one a try when I've got a few mins spare...... Cheers Paul Just installed it and the Beta has expired so it will not run! :rolleyes:
Guest Confucious Posted June 18, 2007 Report Posted June 18, 2007 OK, I'll get it right this time.... This is the one I downloaded which works -> http://mahmood1.com/free_softwares_for_win..._pocket_pc.aspx
Guest PaulF Posted June 20, 2007 Report Posted June 20, 2007 Thanks mate - that version works OK..... However, after all that I'm not sure I'll keep using it... The syncing of contacts is is not 100% - the 'merge with outlook contacts' option doesn't work that well (I get some contacts duplicated, others 'merged') and the 'live' contacts are mostly (but not all) listed surname, firstname (and I don't think you can change it). Also, my phone (M600) seems to be very sluggish when running the Windows Live Beta - is it heavy on processor / memory requirements? I've read on other posts that many people are not happy wih the contact syncing in windows live (even on the new version of WM), so I'm not sure what the best solution is... I'll keep looking. Thanks for all your help - much appreciated. Paul
Guest PaulF Posted June 27, 2007 Report Posted June 27, 2007 Good news - the Outlook Connector Beta will work with Active Sync Well done to 'Ron' over at the mail spaces pages - he's found that once you've set up your Outlook Connector to sync your LiveMail details, you then have to change the setting for which folder your new mail is delivered into. Change this to your LiveMail folders, and then you can remove the old Personal Folders, and then Active Syncs with LiveMail (Hurrah!!!) Still got an issue with 'NickNames' - it seems these are a mandatory field in LiveMail (presumable for Live Messenger) - and always display ont he phone between the first and last names..... Anyway - at least I've now got all my contacts in one place and synchronised.....
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