You can configure Outlook to publish your calendar to this service so that you can retrieve the information via your Windows Phone 7 device.Įnabling your current email address as a Live ID, linking it with a Hotmail account and then use the Outlook Hotmail Connector in Outlook is one way to sync with Windows Phone 7.Īs an alternative, you can also directly import your Outlook contacts into a Live Hotmail account and use that with Windows Phone 7.Now that you have your Google Calendar desktop sync set up, we’ll walk you through how to create an event on Google Calendar without ever leaving your Windows 11 / Windows 10 PC: Similar to Live Contacts, Live Calendar is available at Similar to the method above, you can register your current mail address as a Live ID and then only use the Live Contacts part of it. You can simply ignore the e-mail functionality if you don’t want to use that.
The Outlook Hotmail Connector has the benefit of doing a 2-way-sync so changes are automatically updated on either side. If you have more than a 100 contacts to import, then it would be better to use the Outlook Hotmail Connector or to split your csv-file over 2 or more files (don’t forget to copy over the header when doing so). Note that a Live Hotmail account can only import up to a 100 addresses at a time with a total maximum of 1000 contacts.
From the list of services to import from, select Outlook and browse to your csv-file export from Outlook.
To import, select your Contacts folder in Windows Live Hotmail and choose Manage-> Import. You can export your Outlook contacts to a csv-file and then import that file into your Live Hotmail account. Import your contacts into a Live Hotmail account.In order to set up Hotmail with your own current email address or domain, see the guide Using Hotmail with your own or current email address These accounts can also collect email from your current mail provider and allow you to send out with your current email address as well so nothing really changes from that point of view.
For instance, you can get a Hosted Exchange account such as Office 365 or use a free Live Hotmail account. You can change your e-mail account type to an account type that does support Exchange ActiveSync. If your mail service currently doesn’t support Exchange Active Sync or if you cannot sync your contacts with your mailing service, then there are several options available Synching Notes and Tasks folders is (currently) not supported. The above connectors and add-ins will allow you to sync your mail, contacts and calendar with their services so you can have it available in Outlook, your (Windows Phone 7) phone and on the web.
The Zune software required to sync your Windows Phone 7 device doesn’t support synching with Outlook and synching directly via the ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) software is not supported for Windows Phone 7 devices either. Windows Phone 7 (for now) doesn’t support synching directly with Outlook but will require an account with Exchange ActiveSync support in order to sync “over the air” with Outlook. How do I sync my contacts and calendar stored in Outlook with my Windows Phone 7 device?