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only thing i can syn is calendar, but i have to set work calendar instead of n900. calendar + contacts or calendar + mail or all 3 are NOT working (server error / server maintenance...)

I have sometime some errors but it finnished to work a few minutes after (up to 20 sometimes). At most time errors comes between 20h00 and 23h00 Paris time

I made the switch from Google/NeuvaSync to Hotmail's native ActiveSync a few weeks ago. It work fine for a while but last week I began experiencing persistent sync failures that indicate "Communications error with server" or "server down for maintenance" or "Error in Exchange Server". If I deselect Contact syncing, the problem goes away.

In my hotmail account, I've 'imported' and/or 'linked' Contact stores from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Gmail. On the desktop, I'm sync'ing Outlook with Hotmail, and also installed the Outlook Social Connector for LinkedIn and Facebook.

I've not found a clear explanation for how these mechanisms inter-operate (or don't) so I'd love to learn what others think...

Same here. It consistantly fails.

After reading through the thread properly, I noticed oweng said that just email worked, not contacts and calendar. So I only ticked email, and sure enough, email now works.

It works for 3 weeks for me and then I only get connection errors.

I installed Zarafa Community Edition on my vitual Server and it works perfect.

I can't understand why MS Active-Sync is worse than Zarafa's Active-Sync.

Email and calendar sync works fine for me. Contacts work only if I remove the facebook services feature. So plain contacts work fine. Another thing I noticed is that hotmail does not retain skype id or other IM usernames. That worked fine previously with my work exchange server. Guess it has something to do with extra fields handling.

I may have fixed it:

The integration of Hotmail and MSN Messenger within the Windows Live service has increased. So your Hotmail Contacts and your MSN Messenger Contacts are now the same data store (so it appears). For me, that's about 950 entries. And because I use the Outlook Social Connector for Windows Live, I have the same 950 entries on the desktop.

On my N900 I have ~1000+ contacts (after merging duplicates from numerous IM/VOIP accounts and Exchange ActiveSync). But in the Contacts app on the phone, when I use the 'by groups' view to see how many contacts originate from the MSN Messenger service (using MSN Haze), it shows only 3.

I removed the MSN Haze IM/VOIP account from the phone, and now Exchange ActiveSync works without error, including syncing Contacts.

[EDIT]: I've installed/activated MSN (pecan) instead and everything works as well.

Does this work for anyone else?

Can you post here what version/conbination of Zarafa and z-push you're using?

I tried Zarafa a while back and had problems with 'whole day' calendar items, timezones and images in contacts.

It happened on random for me.
I set my Exchange to sync manually only (doesn’t need the push mail) and most mails coming are junk anyway.

Sometimes, it would return the error message for 1-2 days. But then, everything is fine again until the next attack.
And usually even with the error message, mail and calendar got synchronized (no idea how to confirm with the contacts).

Zarafa 6.40.2 and Z-Push 1.4.2.

- 'whole day' calendar items working
- images in contacts working too
- I can't say something about timezones