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Pending DNS configuration for custom domain

I have a domain and have set it up yesterday using the instructions from the domains settings page. I have checked through nslookup and it appears that MX and TXT records were updated successfully. However, the domain st …

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Forgotten parental email address

My son is 18 and is looking to accept the latest terms of service for his windows phone in order to use the latest versions of downloaded apps, however he cannot accept the terms as we have forgotten the details for the …

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Disappearing files

I had 3 folders containing documents plus, 7 or 8 individual files but somehow, Skydrive lost everything except for one folder. Nobody else has access to my Skydrive and the files do not appear in the Recycle Bin. How co …

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Getting birthday notifications from a deleted microsoft account

Hello, I had a microsoft account tied to an other email address. I'm still getting birthday notifications after deleting the account, and I can't turn them off because I can't sign in! How can I remove this calendar or s …

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Office Files not Syncing

Yesterday I opened my SkyDrive folder in Explorer and saw that I have "2527 files that can't be synced with SkyDrive". It looks like these are all Office files, although OneNote files seem ok. Pdf and other file types ar …

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Xbox live account locked

My Xbox Live/Microsoft account is locked. I recently logged into my xbox live in my other house (Because my parents are divorced) and my email I had associated with my account got deleted. I have like 10 different passwo …

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how to make a microsoft account?

how do i make my yahoo, gmai and other email accounts to become a microsoft account? thanks!

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import mail from yahoo plus account into outlook.com

How can I import all of my mail from my yahoo plus account into my outlook.com account? I need all of mail in the folders as well. Trueswitch is not available anymore (site has been shut down) and every time I try connec …

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Removal of Windows Live/Passport.net Account Creation Limits

All, We are rolling out 300 Windows Phone 8 handsets to our staff over the next 3 weeks and need to remove the account creation limits from our corporate IP address: **.***.**.***@msn.com This will need to be removed for …

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Unable to Set up Outlook.com on a Custom Domain Name

I'm trying to configure outlook.com as my email solution for my domain alphapecificinfra.com. As per your requirement, I'm unable to verify that I'm the owner of the domain, inspite of making the required settings on my …

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Unable to log into hotmail

Up until two days ago I have been using my hotmail.co.uk account but it is now telling me that my account does not exist. I have set-up an outlook account and tried to add my email through that but it tells me that the a …

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Blocked hotmail account and account recovery process unsuccessful

Hello, My hotmail account has been blocked and I've tried the account recovery process several times without success. The security details are over 10 years old! This is a very important email account for me so please co …

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Email Re-use Error message

HI, I have just added my domain to domain.live.com and had a problem with one of the email accounts. I deleted this account and expected to be able to recreate it. However when I do I get the following The requested acco …

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Xbox Account having problem, removing XBOX child Protection

Hello all, I am facing 2 problems here with my Xbox account. Problem #1 I log in my Xbox Account because i used to play games for Windows Marketplace so i log in there and i ended up in Xbox Page. When i log in at the Xb …

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I cant sign in to my account

Ok, in regards to Eugene R's reply.... the fixes you have provided for people to use are not the answer. I have seen the same fixes posted in other replies to other people (myself included) that can't access their email …

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Unable to recover hotmail account

I think this has been mentioned before on other post's but I have not been able to find it I have some how managed to delete my hotmail account and put in an alias for Gmail, my problem is I am unable to retrieve hotmail …

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Hotmail account locked.

This has happened before and i believe that it is because i used my account in another country. Last time i just called support and they fixed it but now its just impossible to do anything about it. Please help me.

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“Text me a code” doesn’t work!

You offered to let us log into our live.com email accounts with a CODE but after I tried to get you to text me the code five times....I got nothing back! I was going to try the log on with a one word code as I got tired …

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