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Outlook 2010 wont connect to Hotmail or Outlook.com

After reinstalling Ms Office 2010 on my computer to upgrade to the 64-bit version, my hotmail account stopped working. Outlook would not connect to my email accounts anymore and I was getting these error messages: Task 'xxxxx@hotmail.com' reported error (0x8004102A) : 'Error with Send/Receive. There was an error synchronizing your folder hierarchy. Error : 80041004.' Task 'xxxxx@hotmail.com' reported error (0x8DE00005) : 'There is an error synchronizing your mail account. Please verify your account is configured correctly by first accessing your mail on the web. Error: 3219. Server. An error occurred in looking up the user's information in mserv. '  After much digging, I finally found that the issue was due to the version of Outlook that I have installed. Apparently, Microsoft have done some changes to Hotmail and Outlook accounts, migrating them to Exchange 365. After the migration, the accounts were no longer compatible with older bui...

Removing Auto-linked Exchange 2010 Mailboxes in Outlook 2010

In Exchange 2010, giving a user Full Access to another mailbox auto-links that mailbox to the user's outlook profile. It appears as an additional PST in Outlook. Even after removing the Full Access permission, the linked PST remains in Outlook. Here are the steps to remove them. Open Active Directory Users and Computers   On the menu, click View then Advanced Features (make sure it's enabled) Go to the user whose mailbox is being access (ie, the linked mailbox) Open the Properties and go to the Attribute Editor tab Look for the attribute msExchDelegateListLink Delete the user whom you do not want to give Full access to anymore Click OK to Save  Restart the user's Outlook.