Synchronise Your Blackberry Phone With Microsoft Outlook

You can access your Outlook account information on multiple mobile devices. The synchronisation will be smooth if you have the Windows operating system or a  variant on these devices and your personal computer. When some proprietary software is used in any of these devices, there could be some problems with the synchronisation.

Blackberry OS

Blackberry OS is the operating system used in all blackberry mobile devices. The OS supports many third party software and mail applications. The Blackberry phone comes with Blackberry Desktop software for maintaining and synchronising documents, mail and contacts. It provides the option to synchronise Blackberry with some of the applications in your computer.

From Outlook email

You could try re-installing or updating the Outlook express. Before you run the.exe file, just make sure that the Blackberry device is connected to the system. When the new Outlook email setup is run for the first time, it will ask you to prompt the synchronisation of Outlook Express to the connected device.

Desktop Manager Error

Uninstall the Blackberry Desktop software. Go to the C drive and access Add or Remove programs list from the Control panel to make sure that the program is completely removed. Check whether there are any previous editions still showing in the list. Remove all these software manually. Go to the Program Files folder and delete any of the related folders and restart the system. Now re-install and run the Desktop manager and try the synchronisation.

Problem due to the security software

Sometimes the anti-virus software or the firewall installed in your system will deny the Outlook email setup access to the Blackberry device. You should temporarily disable anti-virus and firewall programs to see whether this was the reason for the synchronisation failure. If that is the case, go to each of these programs and change their configuration settings to allow the proper synchronisation between the devices.

Wrong Calendar files

If you have another calendar or mail application installed in your system, the Outlook calendar files might fail to synchronise with the Blackberry. This is because the Blackberry device is programmed to accept the synchronisation request from just one Calendar file in the system. So go to the Options menu for Devices in Blackberry and under Advanced settings, set Outlook as the Default Service.

Conflict Resolution

Sometimes the synchronisation process causes data duplication. In the desktop manager, launch the Organizer wizard and open its configuration settings. Under the advanced options menu for Outlook, select the Ignore all conflicting items option.

Now your Outlook mail is successfully synchronised with your Blackberry device and you can access all your contacts and calendar entries on the go.

How to configure Outlook and hotmail?

Hotmail is a web based email application operated by Microsoft. The features like unlimited storage and instant messaging services make it a favorite email application and it is the second largest web based email application. Microsoft Outlook is an email application which can be installed on your computer and can be used to integrate the emails of different emails accounts including Gmail, hotmail etc. You can also use Microsoft Outlook program as a personal information manager and it comes as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. It also have features like contact manager, journal, calendar etc.
In MS Outlook 2007, you have the option to manually configure your Outlook email setup or to use Outlook connector to connect to your Hotmail account. By configuring the Hotmail account in Outlook you can easily access your emails. You can also send and receive emails using your Outlook program.
If you want to manually configure your Hotmail account in your Microsoft Outlook, you can do it just by following few steps.

Steps to configure your Outlook
1) Launch your Microsoft Outlook program.
2) Now on the top of the page you can find the Tool bar. From the tool bar select the option “Tools”.
3) This will open a drop down menu from which you can select “Account Settings” and then select “New”.
4) Then you can select the option "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP" for your email service and click on the option “Next”.
5) Now you will get a new window asking for some information. You have to type your full name, email address of your Hotmail account and your password. You will be asked to re-enter your password for confirmation. Enter it and click on “Next”.
6) Now the Outlook wizard will configure your email settings. You will be notified by a green check mark. This indicates that the configuration process is in progress.
7) Then you will get a message "Your HTTP e-mail account is successfully configured". Once you get this message you can click on the “Finish” button.

Now you have successfully configured your Outlook email setup to include your Hotmail account. If you are facing any difficulties in configuring your MS Outlook then you can make use of the Help options in the application or else you can contact Microsoft Outlook support. A dedicated team will be there at your service who will take care of this issue and configure the Outlook program for you.