I am using Office Professional 2010 (64-bit) and have my email in Microsoft Hotmail accounts (2 of them).
Outlook is linked via the Outlook Connector (64-bit) to enable 2-way sync of mail and calendar with my online Hotmail accounts.

I frequently, on my first attempt to access my Inboxes, get the error message box:
    "We were unable to sign into your account.  Please try again.  Could not authenticate against the Windows Live ID service.  Please try again later."   "OK"

Three times out of five, if I empty the Trash bin on one of my two accounts, synchronization will happen at least for one of the accounts.
What are possible causes of the error message?  I'm using Outlook to access my email with frustration on the extra tweaking needed to get the recommended tool (Outlook for Office) to work from nearly the first try with this combination of parts ('account'@Hotmail.com, Outlook Connector (64-bit) and Outlook for Office (64-bit).  I apologize if this is an old / many time posted topic, but after searching 5 times and not finding a similar post, I decided to put it out there.

MANY THANKS !!  for any help.

I have just installed windows 7 64bit on a new hard drive.  I have installed windows live essential and set up windows live mail with 4 x imap mail accounts .   Apart from the odd  missing flag or watch status  they are all present and OK after the new hardrive.

If I log  in to my windows live account my contacts appear just as they did when i was logged out before the  reinstallation.  But I cannot find out how to save my contacts from my windows live ID into windows live mail so I do not have to be signed in.  I do not always have internet access and I often work on emails when offline and then send and receive when I get home so the need to be sined in is inconvenient and often just not possible, that is why I do not use webmail.  Previously my contacts appeared when I was both signed in and not, obviously having been sysnced with my online account. 

 

I cannot find any way of syncing them back so they appear in windows live mail  if I log out.   I have backed them all up  but last time I did that a year ago I lost all the contact groups and I have over  200 contacts in about 8 different work and personal groups and it took ages to sort them out again. 

 

can anyone help please. If I cannot "save" then to windows live mail can I atleast back them up in a didfernt way so the groups are preserved?

 

Kim Dixon

I keep getting error  message about windows live id sing in assistant can i disable or  uninstall

out of a sudden I got this error message, previously was working fine.  Kindly assist.  I also get error while trying to sign in to windows live Mesh, no error code provided.

 

I tried to sign in using other computer, it's working fine.

I tried to sign in with other windows live ID, it's working fine too.