Outlook 2003 Intellisync Hotmail

[Ohadi Langis]

Sometime in the past few months it appears Microsoft has withdrawn
support for Intellisync for Hotmail Plus and Outlook 2003. I can't
find the download link for the software and online forums have messages
about the service having stopped working.

I can't find any "official" announcements from Microsoft. I searched
this Usenet group and found the usual complaints, but no status
information.

Does anyone know if MSN has stopped supporting Intellisync for Hotmail
Plus and Outlook 2003? If so has it been replaced by something else?
If not where do you get it?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Support has been withdran and you can now use the Outlook Connector, IIRC.

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After furious head scratching, Ohadi Langis asked:

| Sometime in the past few months it appears Microsoft has withdrawn
| support for Intellisync for Hotmail Plus and Outlook 2003. I can't
| find the download link for the software and online forums have
| messages about the service having stopped working.
|
| I can't find any "official" announcements from Microsoft. I searched
| this Usenet group and found the usual complaints, but no status
| information.
|
| Does anyone know if MSN has stopped supporting Intellisync for Hotmail
| Plus and Outlook 2003? If so has it been replaced by something else?
| If not where do you get it?

 

[Ohadi Langis]

OK, thanks for a quick answer. Outlook Connector requires an MSN
account, not just Hotmail Plus.

It seems counter intuitive to me that with all of Microsoft's bally hoo
about Microsoft "Live" that it is still hiding really useful stuff
behind the MSN subscription firewall.

If Microsoft wants to make its small business tools really useful, it
needs to think about calendar synchronization with email.

 

[fjbuch]

How Microsoft chooses to deploy their business model is their business.
You are free to accept or reject their offer. That is the stark
reality; a reality that business does not like to publicize but it is
the the reality at the end of the day. However, despite the fact that I
have an MSN premium account I am still very disappointed. I keep all my
e-mail, calendar, tasks and journal entries in a .pst file on my
computer's hard drive. Even though I have outlook connector, I cannot
SYNCHRONIZE the calendar that is on the MSN server with the one that is
on my .pst file. I used to be able to do this with Intellisync for MSN.
Whenever this topic comes up a MVP curtly states that support has been
withdrawn and that Outlook Connector can by used. That comment is laden
with the highest level of professionalism but is woefully short on
candour. I would like to know what happened between Intellisync and
MSN. (Next thing I knew there was Intellisync for Yahoo) and I would
like Microsoft to openly declare that the ability of automatically
synchronize between a .pst and MSN calendar has been lost and that
outlook connect is only a partial replacement of the capability. But
then again, what I "like" only becomes Microsoft's concerns when there
are thousands or hundreds of thousands like me. I eagerly await Google
to come up with a calendar functionality.