Re-installation of Outlook 2010 on my W10 Desktop following a disk re-format has rendered the Microsoft Exchange Servers unavailable - I take it that this is something to do with Microsoft offering Office 365 subscriptions to home users. and W10 blocking access to the servers .

 

I've temporarily overcome this by setting-up Outlook with IMAP and Smtp access. This keeps the mail sync'd  across machines but does not  do the same for calendars. This is annoying because I make quite heavy use of the calendar function at the moment. Given my relatively low level of usage of Outlook in general, I'm not keen to fork out £80 for an Office 365 annual subscription for multiple machines.

 

Is there any way to set-up access to Exchange servers for the Home user other than thru Office 365 ? - I note that my Blackberry Playbook is able to sync its calendar (Push only) with the web version of Outlook, Outlook.Com using server eas.outlook.com, port 443, but the updated calendar info received from the BBP and recorded on Outlook.com is not forwarded to the Outlook client running on my W10 Desktop.

 

Can Powershell be used to remove the block in W10 ?

 

Are the Azure and AWS addresses only available to account (Commercial) holders ?

 

 

Nick.

 

 

 

Edited 24 May, 20179 yr by Clunkclick

Are you talking about accessing an @outlook.com mailbox using Outlook 2010 as though it were being hosted on an Exchange server?

46 minutes ago, Dr Zoidberg said:

Are you talking about accessing an @outlook.com mailbox using Outlook 2010 as though it were being osted on an Exchange server?

Not really, but could be.

 

Doesn't have to be Exchange centric. What I'm looking for is any mechanism to get calendar information from outlook.com into the Outlook 2010 client. Just want the E-mails and calendar info in the same app. I suppose I could just simply use the web interface of Outllook.com, but its not as nice as the client interface. Is their another type of Microsoft server that's on the distribution list for Hotmail/outlook calendar info that the Outlook client, perhaps with a mod, could use ?

 

I was hoping that it was just the case that W10 was blocking access to the "For Free" exchange servers, as they still seemed to be available when I was running W8.1 as dual boot with W10. It may be that  Microsoft have either withdrawn and closed down the "For free" exchange servers or converted them  exclusively into "Pay-for" services within Office 365. 

 

The BBP is the low power draw "Always-on" machine sitting on the dining room table. All new calendar entries are input to the BBP which then automatically syncs them with Outlook.com - but that calendar info goes no further (Although it used to be drawn down into the Outlook Client when Exchange was selected as the server.).

 

N

Edited 24 May, 20179 yr by Clunkclick

Just set up windows inbuilt calendar to read from Outlook.com on your W10 machine. 

 

Simple. 

Hi,

 

you need to remove the account and re-add it as an "exchange" account using the auto setup. You also need to ensure that Outlook 2010 has all the patches installed. 

 

John

On your advice, I thought I'd have another go at setting up a MAPI account in the Outlook 2010 client in place of the IMAP+SMTP temporary fix

, despite it failing when I first attempted to set-up a brand new MAPI account three weeks ago on.

 

It worked ! E-Mail + Calendars, all OK ? - I removed the IMAP+SMTP account, re-started the machine, then created a MAPI account using the automatic log-on process, which involved downloading and installing Hotmail connector. It took a couple of cycles of starting the Outlook app,but  it worked ! And the Microsoft Exchange server icon appeared at the bottom line of the Outlook window.

 

Huh ? But I did exactly that 3 weeks ago and it didn't work.

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Just out of interest, I took a look at the server it was using - Outlook.Office365.com/mapi/emsmdb/?Mailbox (Followed by loads of alpha-numeric).

 

Great full mail + calendar functionality restored.

 

As usual, with malfunctioning MS Software, I don't know what I did or whether some MS pixy fix dust has been sprinkled on my account in intervening period, but all seems OK.

 

May be connected with the problems I was having at that time with the CMOS battery and system memory (Since resolved) ?

 

 

Nick

 

 

 

Edited 25 May, 20179 yr by Clunkclick

23 hours ago, gadgetman said:

Just set up windows inbuilt calendar to read from Outlook.com on your W10 machine. 

 

Simple. 

Awhh crap ! I didn't realise that W10 Calendar had a separate set-up process to W10 mail - Being used to the Outlook set-up process, I just set-up W10 mail alone, thinking that did calendar and, of course concluded that the calendar wasn't working !! Duh !

 

So, I've corrected that, first deleting the old W10 mail and then setting-up new W10 mail and calendar accounts. And, with the added bonus that this time round that  both mail and calendar were set-up as  referencing an  MS Exchange server so I'm getting full syncing here too ! - previously MS Exchange wasn't  appearing in the list of account types at set-up time, only Outlook.com.  Me thinks, that may be MS have been sprinkling some fix-it pixy dust.

 

Anyway, I prefer using Outlook, because of the format/appearance and because it provides mail receipt and delivery notification whereas W10 mail doesn't - that facility is useful to the Home user, even if its just on an occasional basis.

 

N

 

Edited 25 May, 20179 yr by Clunkclick

I gave up trying to use Outlook.com with my Office 2010 install. It was flaky as feck at the best of times. I found it easier to just use the inbuilt mail and calendar clients. Even then Mail is crap and you have to log into Outlook.com to get some things done.

I don't know why the installation was successful this week when it wasn't 2-3 weeks ago.

 

Part of the MS commitment to well engineered, robust & consistent software to the "Code complete" standard . . . . err . . . err  not !

 

This has got all the hallmarks of the BT and their attempts to force me on to "Unlimited use" Infinity service, make the service as unpredictable and flaky as possible, in the hope that users then say "****-it", I want reliability, I'll pay a sub.

 

In this vein, I've also noticed, in the last two weeks ,a mass movement amongst main-stream web sites to deny access to users who don't accept cookies - basically, they are reacting against  the most recent version of Opera (Which I have been using as my prime browser for the last year)  which is configured so as to deny all the embedded advert crap on websites. Consequently, last four weeks, I've had to use IE, with all the embedded  HD video advert crap which slows down my machine and jacks-up data usage by 10-20%. No wonder BT wanted to get me on to "Unlimited". It makes some of these U.S. websites which are most heavily afflicted virtually unusable unless you've got a machine in the top 25th percentile of performance.

 

IMHO, different model needed for development of the web.

 

N

Wondered how long it would be before Nick's law would be invoked. 

Just accept the cookies and have the browser set to dump them when you close it.

 

I've always had mine set to flush the cache every time and I've never had a problem.

22 hours ago, gadgetman said:

Wondered how long it would be before Nick's law would be invoked. 

Yet the BB Playbook soldiers on, with software updates frozen back in 2014 and manages to interface consistently with MS's own mail and calendar servers on Outlook sans problem !

 

N

(As mentioned the list time this came up......) The Outlook connector is still available from Microsoft, works a treat, has done for years.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=24677

On 27/05/2017 at 18:24, gadgetman said:

Wondered how long it would be before Nick's law would be invoked. 

 

Well, there's got to be the usual whinge about BT in there somewhere. I think it's an addiction of sorts: if there's no mention of BT, then Nick goes in to withdrawl.