I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar tied to my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all of these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and what I can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my wifes 6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this difficult.

Birthday and Holidays are MSN calendars - created by adding holidays to the
MSN calendar. I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?
Your "real" calendar should be called "Your name in " in
outlook.

Go to http://calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx and you can uncheck
the holiday and b-day calendars.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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"J Austin" wrote in message
...
I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar tied to
my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all of
these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and what I
can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my wifes
6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this difficult.

Diane,

Thanks for the info, but I guess when you say my "real" calendar is the one
tied to my e-mail address at msn.com. Some information said the MSN calendar
would no longer sync through Outlook Connector. I want to set-up and use the
one that will sync with my Windows Live Mobile installed on my MS 6.1
smartphone. One of the calendars is sitting in a "local error" folder that
Outlook Connector must have created. This has happened in the past, but
would eventually clear. This set of folder and e-mails has been there for
several weeks.



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Birthday and Holidays are MSN calendars - created by adding holidays to the
MSN calendar. I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?
Your "real" calendar should be called "Your name in " in
outlook.

Go to http://calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx and you can uncheck
the holiday and b-day calendars.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


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"J Austin" wrote in message
...
I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar tied to
my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all of
these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and what I
can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my wifes
6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this difficult.

Correct, MSN calendar will no longer sync - you need to use the live
calendar. Outlook should make the change automatically. ActiveSync only
supports the default calendar so you need to set the live account as the
default delivery location.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


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"J Austin" wrote in message
...
Diane,

Thanks for the info, but I guess when you say my "real" calendar is the
one
tied to my e-mail address at msn.com. Some information said the MSN
calendar
would no longer sync through Outlook Connector. I want to set-up and use
the
one that will sync with my Windows Live Mobile installed on my MS 6.1
smartphone. One of the calendars is sitting in a "local error" folder
that
Outlook Connector must have created. This has happened in the past, but
would eventually clear. This set of folder and e-mails has been there for
several weeks.



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Birthday and Holidays are MSN calendars - created by adding holidays to
the
MSN calendar. I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts
maybe?
Your "real" calendar should be called "Your name in "
in
outlook.

Go to http://calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx and you can uncheck
the holiday and b-day calendars.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and
Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the
place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar tied
to
my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all of
these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and what I
can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my wifes
6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this
difficult.

How do I set-up this up. My MSN account works through Outlook Connector and
stores information (I suspect including the MSN calendar in that OST file).
But my e-mails are also part of the Live system. I don't see how to use just
the live calendar separately. Are there procedures somewhere to show how to
do this?

Thanks,

John

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Correct, MSN calendar will no longer sync - you need to use the live
calendar. Outlook should make the change automatically. ActiveSync only
supports the default calendar so you need to set the live account as the
default delivery location.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
Diane,

Thanks for the info, but I guess when you say my "real" calendar is the
one
tied to my e-mail address at msn.com. Some information said the MSN
calendar
would no longer sync through Outlook Connector. I want to set-up and use
the
one that will sync with my Windows Live Mobile installed on my MS 6.1
smartphone. One of the calendars is sitting in a "local error" folder
that
Outlook Connector must have created. This has happened in the past, but
would eventually clear. This set of folder and e-mails has been there for
several weeks.



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Birthday and Holidays are MSN calendars - created by adding holidays to
the
MSN calendar. I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts
maybe?
Your "real" calendar should be called "Your name in "
in
outlook.

Go to http://calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx and you can uncheck
the holiday and b-day calendars.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and
Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the
place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar tied
to
my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all of
these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and what I
can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my wifes
6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this
difficult.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
news
I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?

That's a good question because the Bithdays calendar I have for my Live
account that shows in Outlook has brithdays on the wrong date or two of them
on the same date. When I look online, the calendar there doesn't reflect what
I see in Outlook. I've rebuilt the OST file also. I guess I haven't yet
sussed where the differences originate.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I've had mine since 2005 when I tested the old outlooklive service, which
used msn... some time back they appeared to break the b-days into separate
calendars you could check/uncheck in the web view (much like how Vista's
Calendar works). They were added so long ago that I couldn't recall how they
got there, even if my life depended on it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


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"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
...
"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
news
I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?

That's a good question because the Bithdays calendar I have for my Live
account that shows in Outlook has brithdays on the wrong date or two of
them on the same date. When I look online, the calendar there doesn't
reflect what I see in Outlook. I've rebuilt the OST file also. I guess I
haven't yet sussed where the differences originate.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Diane and Brian,

Well, at some level, I feel a little better knowing I'm not the only one
trying to figure out how all of this works. I had seen some posts recently
that attempted to develop methods to get everything to work together, but I
can't find them again. At the time it seemed overly complex.

Another issue that is related and started all this, was my updating to OC
12.1. During the update process, my wife's premium MSN account quit working
and several thousand e-mails were lost from folders. They were also deleted
from the MS server, so they are really gone. However, I backup my ost every
day. MS support says I'm on my own and should obrtain 3rd party software to
convert my ost files to pst format. I'm going to start another post to see
what everyone recommends for this type issue.

J Austin

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
news
I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?

That's a good question because the Bithdays calendar I have for my Live
account that shows in Outlook has brithdays on the wrong date or two of them
on the same date. When I look online, the calendar there doesn't reflect what
I see in Outlook. I've rebuilt the OST file also. I guess I haven't yet
sussed where the differences originate.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I don't have premium msn so I don't know how it works - my paid acct was
moved to hotmail servers months ago and the account converted to a hotmail
plus acct recently. "it just works" - the connector knows where to go for
mail and where to go for the calendar.

Try a new profile - keep the old one but make a test one - and set up the
msn acct using the connector. See if you get your mail and live calendar.

otherwise, try one of the Live forums, although I don't know which is best -
http://www.vistax64.com/live-mail/ seems to make it high in google.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


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"J Austin" wrote in message
...
How do I set-up this up. My MSN account works through Outlook Connector
and
stores information (I suspect including the MSN calendar in that OST
file).
But my e-mails are also part of the Live system. I don't see how to use
just
the live calendar separately. Are there procedures somewhere to show how
to
do this?

Thanks,

John

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Correct, MSN calendar will no longer sync - you need to use the live
calendar. Outlook should make the change automatically. ActiveSync only
supports the default calendar so you need to set the live account as the
default delivery location.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
Diane,

Thanks for the info, but I guess when you say my "real" calendar is the
one
tied to my e-mail address at msn.com. Some information said the MSN
calendar
would no longer sync through Outlook Connector. I want to set-up and
use
the
one that will sync with my Windows Live Mobile installed on my MS 6.1
smartphone. One of the calendars is sitting in a "local error" folder
that
Outlook Connector must have created. This has happened in the past,
but
would eventually clear. This set of folder and e-mails has been there
for
several weeks.



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Birthday and Holidays are MSN calendars - created by adding holidays
to
the
MSN calendar. I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts
maybe?
Your "real" calendar should be called "Your name in
"
in
outlook.

Go to http://calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx and you can
uncheck
the holiday and b-day calendars.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
I have 2 MSN Premium accounts using Outlook Connector (12.1) and
Outlook
2007. Since they made a recent change I have calendars all over the
place
(birthdays, holidays, a calendar with my name on it and a calendar
tied
to
my
msn e-mail address. Is there a simple reference that explains all
of
these
change and how I can even tell which calendar I'm looking at and
what I
can
eliminate. It appears that mobile MS 6.1 is synchronizing but my
wifes
6.1
is not. This was not a smooth rool-out. It shouldn't be this
difficult.

I haven't tested recovering an orphaned msn ost file so I don't know what
you can expect. But you will probably need a tool, as one is needed for
exchange ost files. See http://www.slipstick.com/problems/ost2pst.asp -
warning: they are pricy.

Some of the repair tools might be able to convert the ost to a pst are part
of the repair - and some are in the more affordable $50 range. These are
listed at http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.asp. Most offer trials
that recover about 10 messages so you can see if it works before buying.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"J Austin" wrote in message
...
Diane and Brian,

Well, at some level, I feel a little better knowing I'm not the only one
trying to figure out how all of this works. I had seen some posts
recently
that attempted to develop methods to get everything to work together, but
I
can't find them again. At the time it seemed overly complex.

Another issue that is related and started all this, was my updating to OC
12.1. During the update process, my wife's premium MSN account quit
working
and several thousand e-mails were lost from folders. They were also
deleted
from the MS server, so they are really gone. However, I backup my ost
every
day. MS support says I'm on my own and should obrtain 3rd party software
to
convert my ost files to pst format. I'm going to start another post to
see
what everyone recommends for this type issue.

J Austin

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
news
I'm not sure where the birthdays came from - contacts maybe?

That's a good question because the Bithdays calendar I have for my Live
account that shows in Outlook has brithdays on the wrong date or two of
them
on the same date. When I look online, the calendar there doesn't reflect
what
I see in Outlook. I've rebuilt the OST file also. I guess I haven't yet
sussed where the differences originate.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]