I’ve been trying to get a Microsoft live@edu email account set up on Android’s work email application which uses Activesync. This has only been tested with specifically live@edu accounts but any Windows Live-based email might work. The information needed to do it is out there but it’s really not very easy to find. Here is what worked for me.
My email was in the form username@live.uni.ac.uk.
Email address: username@live.uni.ac.uk.
Server address: m.exchangelabs.com
Username: username@live.uni.ac.uk.
SSL: On
Happy you fund the answer… thanks for posting this. You can find a list of some common devices we support here… http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/cc825479.aspx
This is not exhaustive, as there are so many devices that support Activesync nowadays.
Jonny
Jonny Chambers
25 Nov 09 at 11:52 pm
I had the same problem, and worked with it for a couple of hours. What I noticed was it works just fine with a ‘plain text’ style password… no special characters, numbers or capitol letters. After I changed the password to a plain text style, it worked perfectly.
just my $.02
Toby
3 Sep 10 at 4:16 pm
Oh, and whilst logged in to your live@edu web outlook, click on the down tick next to the help button, and go to about to find the server address – it should look like pod55555.outlook.com
Toby
3 Sep 10 at 9:53 pm