Live Mail to Outlook: migrate contacts and appointments

Christian M asks: "How can one possible simple and easy to migrate contacts from Windows Live Mail to Outlook - I have not found it in your blog." He is right - terminate this abuse once and for all time, here is a crisp instructions, as you get Live Mail to Outlook contacts and appointments, and migrate to another email account can.

The approach: it brings you your Live Mail account to Outlook first, and then you can easily email, contacts and appointments in another existing email account in Outlook migrate.

First Go to File-> Information-> Account Settings and click on New

Second Then click on Other and select the Hotmail Connector. If you do not have it, you can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?FamilyID=d9662d20-ad27-45a6-9184-f906dd63ddaa

With the free Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit you can have Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 on your Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts to access and manage these. This applies to e-mails, contacts and calendars alike!

Third Having put your name, email address and password live've entered, you click on OK. You can here the way, under "Advanced" also specify what should be answered via e-mail address or you can also set your own name for the account assigned.

4th Done!

4a. Winking smiley happy too soon: Sometimes you RECALLING the fact that you no longer quite the latest version of Hotmail has connectors, such as mine. In this case, simply trusting click "Update Now", and execute the upgrade of the connector. Otherwise, nothing with the Live mail in Outlook. Should you have problems the way to retrieve the mails live, is mostly due to an outdated version of the Hotmail Connector!

... Finished mouth - I had not already somewhere in this post once said matter-naja ...

5th And now you have your new email account in Outlook Live, and see the inbox, outbox, junk mail and everything you could need ...

But wait: where are the contacts and appointments? Where they belong: you click on contacts, and there is next to your other contacts in a separate contacts folder and Live Contacts.

The same applies to the events: you just click on the calendar and finds your Live Mail Calendar.

6th Migration is now easy: either you move the contacts you want to migrate it into the appropriate folders (then they are deleted from your Live account), or their copies.

So, Happy migrating!

PS: Incidentally, this is a good workaround if you want to synchronize Outlook private content with Windows Mobile 7, without these companies appear in your Exchange account. Because synchronization with Outlook on Windows Mobile is not on cable ... read more next time!