This worked in part until i discovered that the re-occuring appointments
where stopping the calendar from synchronising still, but inbox and contacts
where fine.
if you have a few re-occurring events/appointments change your calendar to
the category veiw or similar to list all entries in your calendar and not
just the active ones. Add the "Modified" field as a column so you can track
which ones you have changes. open each event and go into the "reocurrance"
button to view the settings are still what they should (they had not chnaged
for me) then click OK.
By doing nothing but OK'ing the occurance on each even with not changed and
hitting F9 to re-synch...calendar was fine after they where all done. The
modified date was changed even though i made no changes (but something did)
and there for i could track it.
Now how did i find this out...well there is 2 days of my life i won't get
back but suffice to say after a lot of reading on the web as the support
system failed to recognised the product ID and trial and error i came up with
this.
As a paying premium subscriber I new this was not the free mail problem
other were having and for refernce i am on XPsp3 Outlook 2003 both fully
patched etc etc.
the instructions make some significant assumptions on the level of knowledge
of the audience. the F1 button in outlook should help with the detail
procedures of what i mentioned below. if not post a reply and I'll see what i
can do to help out.
EXPORT you whole mail box to a PST where you can get to it easy. Your
mail/folders and contacts should come back, but just in case.
create a new Outlook profile and set it to prompt to choose, that way if
this does not work you still got your orginal profile + a pst backup.
setup the new profile and connect using your primary hotmail, msn, Live
account only via the http option (I had a few + a pop3 one)
when you restart you should be prompted to use the outlook connector instead
and then wait for it too synch i had a 170MB so did not take to long. if
this does not worked I suggest uninstalling outlook connector (i had
installed twice?) and doing another profile again to be sure and then install
12.1 OC after the initial http has been successfull.
if all is ok so far you outlook connector will be using calendar.live.com
instead now but your calendar is empty but inbox and contacts have come
across, so all i did was open the exported pst and copy back in the calendar
events and any that was reocurring open it only with the reoccurance settings
and OK'd them again. your have to set your hotmail accout to use the Live
CAlendar Beta too...so you don't any more sych errors and you can confirm
with test appointments things are going back and forth using the F9 to force
a synch (don't forget to setup and automatic send/recieve)
I then used the normal month veiw with "My Calendar" and the PST Calendar
open side by side in a month view and scrolled back a month or two and
forward 12 months dragging and copying across anything that was missed.
note: single one-off appoinments did not give me a synch error in the
calendar at all.
There all fixed.
i few things that I am annoyed with:
* why the did reocurring appointments be such a problem
* why did I have to upgrade to 12.1 to get to worked and be forced to use
Live Calendar as it does not have "Tasks" and "Notes" which I use a lot.
* why did the online support not recognise the Product ID
* why why why did I not get an email in my hotmail account informing be of
th eup coming change... I mean what ever they did was significant to break a
lot of people how about some proper change managment communication with your
customers.
That's it for off to defrag my brain in front of the TV and good luck to
anyone else still with a problem.
