{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-28T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/28\/wish-id-kept-the-beta\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:26:44","slug":"wish-id-kept-the-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/28\/wish-id-kept-the-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish i&#8217;d kept the beta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/13\/hotmail-in-your-outlook\/\" title=\"Hotmail in inbox\" class=\"broken_link\">I posted a little while back <\/a>about the very cool Outlook Connector that lets you access a hotmail account within Outlook<\/p>\n<p>All in all i&#8217;ve been pretty pleased with it. I read somewhere recently it was no longer a beta so planned to upgrade to the &#8220;proper&#8221; version<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago i opened Outlook and was prompted to upgrade the outlook connector. So i allowed the installer to do it&#8217;s thing but since then the connector hasn&#8217;t worked at all and from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/outlook\/archive\/2007\/09\/10\/getting-help-with-the-office-outlook-connector.aspx\" title=\"Getting help!\" class=\"broken_link\">comments on the Outlook team blog i&#8217;m not alone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The error i initally had told me it was unable to sign in and in the log it simply said &#8220;Network operation failed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to remove the account from Outlook and re-add it. Still doesn&#8217;t work but now i&#8217;m getting an extra message<\/p>\n<p>A pop-up told me that the feature was only  available to subscribers (and even asked me if i&#8217;d like to subscribe now) and the log pretty much says the same thing<\/p>\n<p><em>Outlook Connector Version 12.0.4518.1063<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Account: <\/em><em>******YEAH RIGHT!!**************<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Signed in successfully at 28\/09\/2007 14:15:18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mail: Error at 14:16.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nCalendar: Error at 14:15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nContacts: Last successfully refreshed at 14:16.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Errors :<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:15:21<br \/>\nError in Mail<br \/>\nNetwork operation failed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:15:23<br \/>\nError in Mail<br \/>\nOutlook Connector is available only to subscribers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:15:24<br \/>\nError in Calendar<br \/>\nOutlook Connector is available only to subscribers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:15:45<br \/>\nError in Mail<br \/>\nOutlook Connector is available only to subscribers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:15:49<br \/>\nError in Mail<br \/>\nOutlook Connector is available only to subscribers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time: 28\/09\/2007 14:16:03<br \/>\nError in Mail<br \/>\nOutlook Connector is available only to subscribers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hate bitching about software that has been given to me for free but it is a little frustrating when the beta worked without issue<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep playing with it but i think i&#8217;ll be waiting for a fix from the Outlook connector guys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a little while back about the very cool Outlook Connector that lets you access a hotmail account within Outlook All in all i&#8217;ve been pretty pleased with it. 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