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...