Windows Live Mail and Calendars

@Everybody

This thread has a generic title, and many of you seem to be experiencing the same symptoms. However, the problem may not have the same cause in every case, so any solution that may be found for one will not necessarily work for any of the others.

That said, there are major changes taking place at Outlook.com, and some of you may be suffering the consequences of this. To see whether you are one of those affected,

1. When viewing your calendar, click the right-most button on the ribbon and select View account information.
2. After signing in to your Microsoft Account and the account Hello! page opens, click View inbox in the left-hand column.
3. Your Outlook.com page should open. In the top left-hand corner, some of you may see this:

• If you do, your account has been upgraded and your contacts and calendar will not sync any more. If you also have the same account as a mail account in Windows Live Mail, it won't sync either, because the DeltaSync protocol that these functions depend upon isn't supported by Outlook Mail.
• If you don't, you have a different problem.

Please respond to say whether your account has been upgraded or not. There are remedies available, but I won't post them until we find out whether the upgrade is the culprit. In your reply, please say whether you have the same Microsoft Account set up as a mail account in Windows Live Mail. If you do, it will appear in the folder pane of your mail window (press Ctrl-1 or click the first, Mail icon at the foot of the folder pane). Right-click on the account name in the folder pane and select Properties. At the top of the Server(s) tab, you'll see the type of account - HTTP, IMAP or POP3. Please give this also in your reply.

It may be coincidence but my problem with not updating the calendar events from Windows Live Mail 2011 also started about a week ago.

I tried the repair essentials but even though it reported a successful repair, I still am seeing the same error message.

The Windows Live program is launched from the taskbar.

Any additional suggestions would be more than welcomed.

Bruce EW

PS my former Win 7 upgraded to Win 10 and running Windows LIve Mail 2011 does NOT show this problem.  And the problem with my desktop upgraded from 8.1 to 10 worked fine until about a week ago.

I have the same problem and the same error message reported by Bruce. I am trying to use the Windows Live Mail application running in Windows 10. I have a Windows Live account and I am able to use the Windows Live Mail application as a client that sends and receives emails both from that account and from a gmail account.  However, Windows Live Mail does not enable me to get at either my Calendar nor my contacts (stored in the built-in "People" app).   I tried the Repair all Windows Essential programs steps suggested above but they had no affect.

I would not be trying to use the Windows Live Mail application if the built-in Windows 10 "Mail" application did not constantly crash on my Windows 10 PC (this seems to have been reported by many other Microsoft users but I have not seen any explanation or solution by anyone from Microsoft yet).

Followed directions but when Live mail is activated Calendar service not connected and same message appears. The calendar events do not update and thus the error message. The Email side works fine.