I am at wit's end and feel like I'm beating my head against the wall so I am
hoping someone here can point me in the right direction for what I need to
get done.

I am currently running Vista with Office 2k7. I also use a Cingular 8125
phone that I keep synced with my system as well as my personal exchange acct
on mail2web.com. I have a passport acct tied into my primary ISP email but do
not have a hotmail/msn acct. That's enough for background, now on to the
problem.

What I am trying to accomplish is finding a way to tie my Outlook in with my
Live Messenger account as well as (hopefully) my Vista contacts without
having to reenter every contact in each location. For example, for my
contacts that have Live Messenger accounts, I put that email address into the
IM field of my contact entry in Outlook. Rather than have to reenter all of
the contact information into Live Messenger, I would like it to pull that
information automatically. I believe that if I had a Hotmail or MSN email
account that I could use the Outlook Connector to sync my contacts list
between the two. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to add a hotmail
account to an existing passport, it would require signing up with a whole new
one. Since I have my MSDN subscription and Xbox Live accounts tied into my
existing passport account, that is not really an option, though I would be
willing to pay a nominal fee for the account if it was.

Part of the reason for wanting to do this is that if I try to use the
Windows Live Messenger for Mobile on my phone, it takes my Live Messenger
contacts and creates new contacts for them, even though those same people
already have their messenger accounts included in their relevant contacts.
This results in duplicates that, while not the absolute end of the world, is
something I would rather not deal with.

While I'm on the subject, is it also possible to include AIM or Yahoo
contacts in the IM field of Outlook and have them recognized as well?

I hope that wasn't too terribly confusing. I'm recovering from surgery and
am on pain meds so it might ramble a little. Here is the short version.

-No hotmail/msn acct.
-Want to tie my Outlook / Windows Mobile address books into Live Messenger
instead of having to enter each contact individually. If I add a new contact
or a new IM entry to an existing contact, I would like to see it propogate to
the Live Messenger.
-Add a Live mail acct to existing passport?
-Combine Outlook contacts with Vista's address book (or, alternately, at
least find a sidebar gadget to access the Outlook 2k7 address book).

Any help you guys could give me with getting consolidated and modernized
here would be appreciated.

No on AIM/ yahoo IM addresses. Integration is with MS messenger only. if
your passport is an msn/hotmail account you can add a mail account to it but
not if it's another domain, no.

The only way to share contacts between messenger and outlook and the windows
contacts is by exporting from outlook.

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I am at wit's end and feel like I'm beating my head against the wall so I
am
hoping someone here can point me in the right direction for what I need to
get done.

I am currently running Vista with Office 2k7. I also use a Cingular 8125
phone that I keep synced with my system as well as my personal exchange
acct
on mail2web.com. I have a passport acct tied into my primary ISP email but
do
not have a hotmail/msn acct. That's enough for background, now on to the
problem.

What I am trying to accomplish is finding a way to tie my Outlook in with
my
Live Messenger account as well as (hopefully) my Vista contacts without
having to reenter every contact in each location. For example, for my
contacts that have Live Messenger accounts, I put that email address into
the
IM field of my contact entry in Outlook. Rather than have to reenter all
of
the contact information into Live Messenger, I would like it to pull that
information automatically. I believe that if I had a Hotmail or MSN email
account that I could use the Outlook Connector to sync my contacts list
between the two. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to add a hotmail
account to an existing passport, it would require signing up with a whole
new
one. Since I have my MSDN subscription and Xbox Live accounts tied into my
existing passport account, that is not really an option, though I would be
willing to pay a nominal fee for the account if it was.

Part of the reason for wanting to do this is that if I try to use the
Windows Live Messenger for Mobile on my phone, it takes my Live Messenger
contacts and creates new contacts for them, even though those same people
already have their messenger accounts included in their relevant contacts.
This results in duplicates that, while not the absolute end of the world,
is
something I would rather not deal with.

While I'm on the subject, is it also possible to include AIM or Yahoo
contacts in the IM field of Outlook and have them recognized as well?

I hope that wasn't too terribly confusing. I'm recovering from surgery and
am on pain meds so it might ramble a little. Here is the short version.

-No hotmail/msn acct.
-Want to tie my Outlook / Windows Mobile address books into Live Messenger
instead of having to enter each contact individually. If I add a new
contact
or a new IM entry to an existing contact, I would like to see it propogate
to
the Live Messenger.
-Add a Live mail acct to existing passport?
-Combine Outlook contacts with Vista's address book (or, alternately, at
least find a sidebar gadget to access the Outlook 2k7 address book).

Any help you guys could give me with getting consolidated and modernized
here would be appreciated.