How-To: Enable Hotmail ActiveSync Push Mail on Your Phone

As we told to you yesterday, Microsoft today enabled ActiveSync for their popular Hotmail email service.

Quick Steps

• If your device supports only one profile of ActiveSync, delete the existing ActiveSync profile on your device if you already use it
• Enter the following:
  • URL - m.hotmail.com
  • Username – Enter full name with domain info, e.g. me@test.com
  • Domain – Leave blank
  • SSL – Enabled
  • Certificate - Accept the SSL certificate when prompted
  • Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks – All can be enabled.

Supported Devices

• The following devices have been tested against Hotmail ActiveSync
• WM 6.x
• WP7
• iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
• Nokia E-series, S-series, N-series running Mail for Exchange application

Note that Android 2.1 isn’t currently supported due to known client issues in Android’s client. On Android 2.2 this ActiveSync be working.

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