Outlook Connector (v12) now Hotmail Connector (v14) ?

[Mike]

Outlook Connector (v12) -NOW- Hotmail Connector (v14) ? in Outlook General
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Thanks Roady.

Strange though - I have not upgraded the connector for my Outlook yet and
the upgrade pop-up warning doesn't show anymore!

I smell a rat - that MS have rolled back the need for it until they can
issue a working upgrade patch procedure.

I brought up this issue before that MS should offer a service patch for
Outlook (2000,2003,2007) to bring it up-to-date in terms of e-mail
connectivity protocols.
Therefore making the procedure of adding a new e-mail account more
streamlined for the operator.

eg. To add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2003; the choice of Server Type
still shows - "HTTP - Connect to HTTP e-mail server such as Hotmail to
download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders."
- This is clearly now obsolete!

From what I perceive, Outlook 2010 requires the Hotmail Connector as well,
so it musn't have the connectivity buil-in.
Even though Hotmail (Livemail) has long been a widely used mainstream service.

The Outlook Hotmail Connector is the new version of the Outlook Connector
with a slightly different name. Upgrading will remove the old version. If
not, you can remove it manually as you won't need it anymore.

The upgrade process should be fixed by now and point to the latest version.

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[Roady [MVP]]

eg. To add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2003; the choice of Server Type

still shows - "HTTP - Connect to HTTP e-mail server such as Hotmail to
download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders."
- This is clearly now obsolete!

Correct, although you can disable the HTTP account option with a registry
key though.

The update is being pushed only to a select "few" and not to everyone yet to
spread the load. Currently the upgrade is not yet mandatory, meaning that
you can connect with the old and the new version. This will change over time
as they will shut down Outlook Connector v12 support.

The fact that Outlook Connector support has not been provided built-in in
Outlook 2010 is done for anti-trust and separate development reasons. The
DeltaSync protocol (which the Outlook Connector uses) is not a standard mail
protocol (like IMAP or POP3) nor is it the main purpose of Outlook to be
used with that specific mail protocol (Exchange takes that honor) so leaving
it as an add-in makes sense in that way.

Also, the AutoDiscover feature will directly tell you for the need of the
Outlook Connector when you try to configure Outlook with a Hotmail account
so people won't be directly at a loss.